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The point is that if a woman is strangled but not killed by her partner, the chances that he will eventually kill her are exponentially greater than if this is not a risk factor. The eventual murder need not be by strangulation.

It’s brought up in public because he is a public figure. Public figures who are not athletes also have their crimes brought up in public. If your coworker invents the next pet rock and then beats his wife, he’ll be on Gawker too. But it’s not an absolution of private wrongdoing that public wrongdoing is addressed…

But why is this person’s past any more important than the pasts of people I work with in the private sector?

Hill received a three-year suspended sentence that will keep him out of jail—a plea deal that prosecutors says was formulated in consultation with the victim. He had to complete a domestic-abuse evaluation, an anger-management course and a year-long batterer’s program, and if he completes his probation without any…

There’s a Jake, Josh, and Luke in the first tweet, so I think it’s comprehensive.

They also very much wanted to work in a reference to a Vogue photo shoot. “What could have inspired her? Oh, that’s right, us!”

Yesssssssssss. Fetishizing the votes of old white men because they’re held up as the ultimate authority and arbiters of what can be allowed to happen in the world isn’t even kind of subtle, and it happens like fucking clockwork. When Clinton [, Bill] won but lost white men people basically threw the Democratic Party a…

Yeah, his point was wrong and so is yours. This kid decommiting to TAMU has fuckall to do with corporate greed. Jesus, they show the tiniest sliver of self-interest and these kids are demonized to hell and back. Get over it, both of you.

The Cruz is a Liar/Crooked Cruz strategy was absolute gold as far as I’ve observed: people who should like him actually hate him with a zeal that I didn’t see coming. A big part of it came from how many evangelicals lurrrrved Ben Carson, and then Cruz’s campaign did those robocalls saying/implying that Carson had…

Normally said by a dead serious teenager dressed up in a cute little fake soldier outfit!

Just keep reminding yourself that he won votes from roughly the same percentage of Americans as think the moon landing was faked. He has incredibly strong support with a very fringe faction that was never going to vote for a Democrat to begin with. I grew up surrounded by people who unironically and routinely use…

That’s much clearer, thank you. I agree with your points but fail to see how Clinton should change her game based on them. There are a couple of gender-in-the-general options:

He did not have a good point to make. Trying to turn a 17 year old changing his mind about a nonbinding commitment to a sports program into a literal life-or-death assessment of the character of “kids these days” was the exact opposite of a good point. It was a stupid point, made badly and publicly.

That’s still incredibly unclear. So is Trump doing “the gender play” here? Or have you switched to calling it “playing the woman card”, and now it’s something Clinton is doing by responding to Trump?

I didn’t react to what you said before because it didn’t then, and still doesn’t make sense. What is “the gender play”? The fact that she is a woman? The fact that voters notice she’s a woman? The fact that Trump does?

I admire your concision.

Okay but nothing in your comment explains why she should change anything about her strategy for these Boomer men. Whether they would outright refuse to vote for a woman or outright refuse to vote for a Democrat, those are two things that Clinton is, and will remain. She should ignore them and keep on keeping on.

... Kyler? Were they calling from a walkie talkie?

They’re trading working with someone who is demonstrably messy and childish for working with another someone who either is not those things or at least has the good sense to not be those things publicly on Twitter.