Again, no one is denying you a right to an opinion. People are disagreeing with your (horrible, racist, incoherent gibberish) opinions. If you don't want to be "exposed to abusive comments", don't share your opinions with people who will disagree with them.

You have a right to your opinion. Other people have a right to their opinion of you, based on the opinions you express. It's the circle of life.

Yeah, my old friend Dennis Perkins - or Perky D, as he LIKES to be called - is usually pretty astute about continuity stuff, so I thought it was weird that this review kind of implies that Smithers's boyfriend was a new character, and wasn't recurring Springfieldite Julio. But, then, no one calls him by name in this…

"I'm allowed to not go with the PC browbeating and not have to be retaliated against"

I see what you're saying, and I agree when it comes to Lindsay, but for me, the revelation that Jimmy might want kids is a very interesting bit of character shading specifically because it's so unexpected.

Das Wagonphone ist eine Nuisancephone!

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Thank you for teaching me that this site has a block feature! You were fighting with a troll before - whatshisname, Larson something - and that troll made me *so angry* (something about the sanctimonious tone coupled with his general wrongness) that I nearly said some…

"next decade or two", "already", same difference.

Keith Ellison is from Minnesota, the one state which went Democratic in 1984. He represents a district that has voted for only Democratic Congressmen since 1962. In what universe did he "get elected thanks to the 50-state strategy"? If the Democrats circa 2006 had adopted a "one-state strategy" or a…

Agreed. Another huge factor which you've rightly identified is this crying-wolf tendency to demonize everyone. With the arguable exception of Romney-Ryan, Democrats have been using the "the Republican standard-bearer is a moron" card for how long now? Forty years? We said Reagan and Bush and Palin and Ford and Kemp…

Yeah, and I agree with you, too. Samantha Bee is great, and I love her. I'm just saying that paying Trump any attention at all (like I'm doing right now, in fairness) contributed to the problem.

In a perfect world, I'd agree with you. But two things:
1. Donald Trump is not a "politician". If the media was going to draw a line of demarcation between serious candidates and fringe morons who put their names forward - AND THEY DID - he's *clearly* in the latter group.
2. "education"? Really? See, this kind of…

Absolutely. When someone devotes every episode of their show to, "Hey, Americans! There's this guy who has all the same opinions as you, and he could become president, so don't vote for him, unless you want a president who has all the same opinions as you! P.S. I think those opinions are bad," they're part of the…

Yeah, I'm torn. If I may say the exact same thing you said in a lot more words…

I wouldn't say it "doesn't mean what anyone on either side thinks it means", but certainly that there's no universally accepted definition. I'm a pretty radical leftist on this stuff—-I believe that systemic oppression is so strongly entrenched that most stuff most white people do is at least informed by our…

She hasn't, so there's that.

I've never understood this strawman about how "liberals preach tolerance". I've never heard any liberal "preach tolerance" in general. We advocate equity for marginalized groups, and assholes aren't marginalized groups.

I've been half-heartedly watching this from the start. Last night, my TV signal crapped out due to weather and I missed most of the episode and thought, "Well, that's that. Sign from the universe. Pitch isn't worth trying to catch up on, so I'm out." Hearing that this episode had some character work on Mike makes me…

"Homie the Clown".

This is the first time in AVClub history that someone didn't get a classic-Simpsons reference. Thanks, Trump. :(