Mmm, there are still gender stratifications within class, as well as class stratifications within gender. The existence of the Epstein class is a class issue; the misogyny of that class is a gender issue; the structural prevention of women to enter that class is both a class issue and a gender issue. And I’m not even getting into race. Like, Oprah dropping nudes is going to be taken differently than Kendal Kardashian, but both are still billionaires, and both would face more blowback than Epstein’s friends within the same eschelon of the owning class.

White supremacists starting wars then bitching when they lose

Iran

Bro idk if we ever stopped

I mean, he did literally deny and minimize the accusations

Sometimes I’m on my phone while wiping a streaky one and lose track of the amount of paper used.

I think you just used a poor example. The fact is that the arts have been shared for millennia, and are an intrinsic part of the human experience. The community theater has survived every mode of production in human history, and will continue to do so. You may have to exchange some minor labor for a canvas, but the art itself is made to be shared. I have a hard time imagining any artist, no matter the skill, gate keeping their talents without the profit motive. There is no other reason. Art isn’t like a commodity: More bread for me is less bread for you, but more art for me is also more art for you.

I read this pronounced like bukakke

Scruppyyyyy

Shout out to Minneapolis, MN for being so trans accepting that they have a large enough community that they can make the list the right way

Dawg imagine summarizing the bible as historical.

Got you FAM, mb

Credit: Definitely not the YMCA

… How do you know?

I think, and praying I’m correct, that they are showing how passive language can be used to excuse the worst behaviors of humanity.

Not DRUMPF!

Come on bro, let’s keep the thought terminating clichés coming!

Vote blue no matter who!

Damn bro the 2020 throwback

So first it’s the wrong time, and when you’re called on it then it’s too generic an action, despite the article citing specific actions by specific senators and representatives. Got it. I know this trick: Next it’ll be the wrong specific criticism, before everyone is racist for criticizing Cory Booker. Been down this book; can you try something new for me for once?

See, this is why you’re full of it though. You undercut yourself:

There are many opportunities to act in between elections, but come election time there is none.

Guess which one applies now. I’ll give you 3 guesses.

God I hate The Atlantic. Good point, but they still had to shoehorn in

Both senators have promised to cover the cost with taxes on corporations and very rich households. But even if that were to happen, it would jeopardize everything else voters expect from the Democratic Party, such as expanding health-care access and investing in clean energy. There is a mathematical limit on how much additional revenue can be generated from raising taxes on high-income households,

Note that in one sentence they lump taxing corporations and rich households together, and then 2 sentences later they dismiss raising taxes on rich households to dismiss both prospects.

Note how they lump billionaires with “rich households,” then dismiss taxing billionaires using a consultancy report on households earning over $400k instead of any rigorous economic analysis of taxing literal billionaires.

Note how even the consultant-written report calls taxing rich households a half-step, and that we need that AND MORE. The Atlantic is using a critique saying a tax hike isn’t good enough to say that a tax hike isn’t good. Note how they implicitly truncate the “enough.”

Note how the consultant-written report has an entire section on the social good even the half-step measure will bring, and that The Atlantic will not report on this at all.

Note how at every step they implicitly push and reinforce the notion that anything beyond milquetoast neo liberalism with a veneer of progressivism is too far, even in an article criticizing democrats for doing the same.

Someone pointed out that things make sense when you realize democrats and republicans have the same bosses. I want to add, The Atlantic also has the same bosses.