The US economy officially added 4.8 million jobs in June, and Trump and his rampers are hailing this as the economy 'roaring back' and evidence of a V-shaped recovery. It is, of course, jus… (View Post)

Unlike OGH and some other posters, I don't rate this particular Lincoln Project ad highly - it is too much the Manchurian candidate to be truly powerful. What is effective are their ads showing … (View Post)

I guess we are saying the same thing in different ways. Cultural appropriation is just a lazy, value-judgment-heavy way of talking about how ideas spread and are used. (View Post)

Personally, I have no problem with tearing down statues - it's happened throughout history as dynasties change or as ideas get ousted. But I'd prefer they were taken down from public spaces… (View Post)

But some take it to extremes - a white person eating a taco is cultural appropriation. To me, cultural appropriation is just memes doing their work. If the meme is successful, it will thrive in multi… (View Post)