But that would require them to acknowledge the flimsiness of the safety net and the precariousness of their own lifestyle. Easier to pretend it's a moral failure.

Hey, uh, Tom? Weird fucking thing to say about children, bud.

Long as we have time to make a pit stop for a Sherman's March first

The tendency to sanitize this violence by labeling it “pedophilia” is a way to imply that the sexual abuse of children is a biological necessity and an inevitable part of human nature.

But it isn’t. Child sexual abuse is entirely preventable. We could live in a world without it.

I often wonder what kind of shape millennial gays would be in right now if we hadn't lost so many of our elders in the 80s and 90s. Better, I have to think.

Soap operas have been asking this question for decades

Or they'll take those maladaptive habits and make them Black people's problem instead of yours.

Kenny liked your post so I'm not gonna try to speak for him. I will say, in my experience, when whites do not make themselves a safe space for their peers to divest from white supremacy, those white peers will usually just find communities that reinforce it instead.

Been lovebaited, do not recommend

As evidenced by the fact that the NYT suppressed stories about the aforementioned Presidential frontrunner's sex crimes.

Seems to me that you're intentionally responding to a point they didn't make. As an institution, the NYT absolutely made the decision that credible information about a Presidential frontrunner's sex crimes was less newsworthy than wall-to-wall coverage of Clinton's emails.

I mean, is it pedantic to point out that you were in the wrong and were rude to a server for basically no reason?

abandoned civil rights and antifascism in the last election. This is why "progressives" have so much headwind with voters wise enough to understand the civil rights struggle.

This is why the DSA is 88% White and almost 2/3 male.

It used to mean that, in fact a wise old voter recently reminded me that the term comes from progressive *taxation*.

Now a days it means populism, in the sense that the focus is on material comfort for the favored population (the herrenvolk) at the expense of others. This is why"progressives"

Cregger gives me such a visceral ick and each film he releases just reinforces it.

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