In response to Mary Locker.
Bluntly, the media is also invested in the GOP. Individual journalists may or may not be liberal, but the large conglomerates employing them would definitely prefer mass deregulation.
05:09 PM - Jul 28, 2023
In response to 💜 Callie 💜.
Seriously, one thing that the last few years have made clear is that "socially liberal, but fiscally conservative" is code for "I want dead bodies, but don't want anyone to see me pull the trigger."
03:05 PM - Jun 16, 2023
In response to Jeff Russell.
We've seen reports like this for more than a decade, now. "Behind closed doors, Republicans secretly hate Trump," but they still support him and have no problems with his policies, so maybe this is their way of pretending that they're centrists and not a legitimate issue for them?
03:07 PM - May 28, 2023
In response to DJohnRowinski.
I've been saying for years that all I want out of a continuing Indiana Jones franchise is his great-grandkids executing museum heists to return artifacts to the appropriate cultural heritage site...
05:11 PM - May 26, 2023
In response to WOKE /saying NO to polls.
"I don't see why the party that supports democracy doesn't just become an authoritarian nightmare to get me what I want" isn't nearly the argument for stopping authoritarians that they always seem to think it is...
03:07 PM - May 20, 2023
In response to Mary OContrary.
When I was active on Quora, a million years ago, when guys asked why women in their lives "hated men," I always felt compelled to suggest that they get their keyboard checked to fix that erroneous "n."
They always want to replace consequences for their behavior with an attack on their identity.
They always want to replace consequences for their behavior with an attack on their identity.
09:42 AM - May 07, 2023
In response to Paul Chenoweth.
It just needs a small touch-up. "...a 4-yr heroic struggle for states’ rights (to protect slavery), individual freedom (to own Black people), local government control (to defy abolition), & a determined struggle for deeply held beliefs (in white supremacy)."
03:04 PM - Apr 26, 2023
In response Fruitcaked Kace to their Spout
I've learned over the last few years that there's no depths to which the GOP can sink that some (almost exclusively white) liberals won't respond with some variation of "sure, but have I told you about how much I hate Nancy Pelosi?" instead of considering their own lack of engagement.
03:14 PM - Apr 20, 2023
In response to Irminsul Harp.
Originalism is more like insisting in performing an EDM medley and insisting that's what Beethoven meant to write, based on how a selection of chords sound to the EDM expert brought in to analyze that first draft.
03:31 PM - Apr 17, 2023
In response to Nevada Jones.
It's amazing that this works so consistently, like we don't all have a lifetime of experience of seeing that people who call themselves apolitical, they mean that they're fine if Nazis win...
03:05 PM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
I mean, he has a point that, for any centralized system in private hands, there's a price that will put it in the hands of bad management, and we should be wary about everyplace, including here. But taking that stand on Twitter makes him an illustration of the problem, not a prophet of the solution.
02:59 PM - Apr 14, 2023
In response to Resister.
Maybe because of Trump, Wisconsin, Chicago, and Michigan all in one week, Republicans finally see that they're dying, so like a wounded animal, they're going to use their remaining energy to lash out and hope that they can do enough damage to limp away and heal.
03:04 PM - Apr 11, 2023
In response to John Bolton's Mustache✅️.
Definitely. The specific example that I use for that is that (as a developer) I now always ask prospective managers about the marketing and sales teams. If there's ANY dysfunction in the organization, it almost always spills out in their answer, because of the demographic differences.
03:13 PM - Apr 09, 2023
In response to Thurgood Du Bois.
It'll also take a lot more than voting. I always say that, if your elected officials don't at LEAST roll their eyes when they hear your name, then you're not sending them enough (paper) mail or meeting with them nearly often enough.
And if you don't tell them what you want, someone else will gues
And if you don't tell them what you want, someone else will gues
03:01 PM - Apr 06, 2023
In response to Free Press Without Borders.
I get into that distinction in the post. Specifically, reporting on violence (for example) needs to happen regardless of shock value. "Here's a meme of Marjorie Taylor Greene making an ugly face" is only there to get a rise out of people, out of habit of catering to big-corporate-site algorithms.
06:22 PM - Mar 26, 2023
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
For what it's worth, I don't think anybody would see it as interference, if all the echoes got consolidated with the most recent. Maybe on hover or click or whatever, show the times that everybody echoed it?
03:09 PM - Mar 25, 2023
In response Jhada Addams (They/Them) ️⚧️ to their Spout
On the other hand, maybe we can encourage expanding this behavior outside the bedroom. I wouldn't mind it if everyone who styled themselves an "alpha male" (a term from a study that turned out to be about captive and distressed wolf packs) would shut up, I'd find that acceptable...
03:05 PM - Mar 22, 2023
In response to Robb Davis.
And never think that democracy ends at voting. That's only day one. If your representatives don't personally know your name and how you want them to vote on the issues that you care about from repetition, then lobbyists will be sure to inform them when they donate to their campaigns.
03:06 PM - Mar 19, 2023
In response to Penny Rosenberg.
On top of the actual utility, do you REALLY want your identity in a new space be "I still use the site run by the fascist running the company into the ground"? Upstream/primary sources are always better for everyone.
03:04 PM - Mar 14, 2023
In response to Linda in TN ACTIVE Resister.
Also, maybe because states aren't "red" or "blue," but have actual humans living in them who may or may not be able to vote?
Granted, I'm a New Yorker, but "why don't you just use your privilege to abandon people" sounds like the wrong side of the fight...
Granted, I'm a New Yorker, but "why don't you just use your privilege to abandon people" sounds like the wrong side of the fight...
03:02 PM - Mar 14, 2023
In response Jhada Addams (They/Them) ️⚧️ to their Spout
Kind of amazing that elites have been clutching their pearls at teen promiscuity for decades (while opposing sex-ed that might stop it), but now think there's something wrong with kids NOT jumping into bed...
02:57 PM - Mar 14, 2023
In response Dr. William to their Spout
Still!? I complained about that sort of thing when I worked at Eclipsys (which did a lot of medical hardware/software, if they don't still exist), something like twenty years ago, and how our internal policy was to set our passwords to our usernames so that we wouldn't be inconvenienced...
02:52 PM - Mar 03, 2023
