You are not a real person. Does the cat photo help?

Sadly, it's not clear to some people that it's a genuine moral failure to waste everyone's time by arguing about who failed to fight the fascists instead of actually fighting the fascists.

Holy shit, these people you're arguing with are very stupid.

Don't bother with the clowns arguing about the positioning of the deck chairs: we've hit the iceberg, they're useless, and they're already dead and forgotten.

My new litmus test is that any Democrat who lectures the party on how they should talk to “ordinary people” is unbelievably full of shit and doesn’t deserve your attention or your vote.

One of the most significant but largely immeasurable consequences of the last decade of fascism in America is that it is a form of civil, moral, and spiritual rot that debases all of us. We are all made that much cruder, insecure, and therefore crueler despite our best aspirations and efforts.

I saw this and was like, wait, Robert Blake isn't already dead?

I am so very sorry. That's a terrible loss.

Yep.

I am going to make a bot that just posts this in all the "what's up with Gen X" discussions.

'Prosperity theology' is when I realized how truly, fundamentally corrupted American Christianity has become.

'Here are all the kingdoms of th-'

'Great, thanks! I knew I deserved this!'

‘Fiat fucking lux’ is perfect. 💯

Don't sleep with your employees. Don't sleep with people when you have the power to fire them. Don't sleep with young idealistic people who could face longterm career damage if they say no and you don't like it.

If you do any of that, I will never think you can be trusted with power. Ever.

“He has several sexual assault accusations against him, but maybe they’re not true.”

“He has a Nazi tattoo and racist Reddit posts, but maybe he’s not that bad.”

Not how you build a passionate voter base. We Democrats need to do better than this shit.

When Swalwell says, “I made mistakes in my marriage in recent years”, he is admitting that he repeatedly had sex with subordinates in his campaigns/office.

He is asking us to believe that they were consensual, as if that would be full exoneration.

A boss like that should be fired, not promoted.

After Trump becomes the world's greatest mass murderer in history, I'm really excited to find out who was responsible: the liberals or the left. The suspense is killing me. We should get started on that debate now.

In 1978, they stopped buses — and helped launch a disability rights movement People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and chanting, "We will ride."

People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and chanting, "We will ride."

Having an administration that’s very overtly in favor of performative war crimes is bad. But let’s not pretend this isn’t simply a reflection of American culture. Plenty of Americans reject the concept of war crimes and are enthusiastic about doing ANYTHING to enemies.

Ushering in the end of humanity because a bunch of “alpha” white men are too scared to stand up to a demented old man who’s caked in makeup.

Well, except it's not true.

Man, when I said Trump was hellbent on creating stagflation, I didn't expect him to engineer a global oil supply shock.

This guy is better at destroying the USA than I thought.

Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy.

As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.

I’ve already seen people call the attack on Jewish ambulances a “false flag”, saying every Jew should personally come out and condemn Netanyahu if they don’t want consequences, that the ambulances only serve a “Jewish area” that is a segregated “mini Israel”, posting memes etc. Stop!

Yeah. The majority will never get their comeuppance. Some will.

I think things have progressed so far that anyone who thinks in terms of a return to the recent status quo is fooling themselves...that's gone forever. I think the majority of Americans do not yet understand this.

nope

I'm not sure I believe that regret is sincere.

Being evil and smart and sane isn't the same as being evil and stupid and insane. They're both bad, but they're very different kinds of bad. That matters to the people who want to know if they're next on the list.

Please continue to affect a worldly cynicism, it adds a lot to the conversation.

Yes, but these are morons who misunderstand both Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine, think Africa is a country, the world is 7,000 years old, that milk chocolate tastes good, and that you need a 4WD on a Houston freeway. They wear clown shoes and clown makeup because they are clown people.

I'm not aiming to make anyone a hero in the story. It's all villains, expedience, hypocrisy, ulterior motives, and an utter disregard by the powerful for the lives of those who are not.

Sorry. I might have been waiting about 30 years to write that.

In short, it wasn't about 'principle' and a line-in-the-sand. It was that the US, when it comes down to it, cannot restrain Israel and, unfortunately, Hussein's realistic strategy was built around goading Israel into an all-or-nothing war.

Also, Israel is the US's rabid dog, which is convenient.

It's always been fashionable to say it was about oil. Which, yeah, indirectly, just like everything in the region since WWII. Later, when Bush Jr just wanted avenge Dad, and Wolfowitz (the idiot) dreamed of children throwing roses in the street, Cheney and Rumsfeld got their nuts, so they were ok.