All billionaires are activists, and activism is not inherently good. Their money is actively changing the world around them and their consumption creates the markets we have to live with.

No billionaires should have the kind of power and influence they do.

Why would there need to be?

Republicans were just fishing for any excuse to stop the clintons from forming a cohesive universal health care plan and in general just obstruct the government because Democrats had power. They would have found something. They had already latched onto a 43,000 loss The clintons made on a land deal as if it was proof of high crimes and misdemeanors.

If they knew about the blowjob they would have gone right for it. Instead it was something that popped up during cross-examination when they were investigating the whitewater scandal during the government shutdown they had caused and managed to catch Clinton in a lie . They realized there actually was someone else in the oval office with him even though he said that he was alone.

That’s why the whole conversation about what the word “is” is even happened.

Terminal velocity for a human is not fast enough to cause air to heat up. You’d probably get frostburn instead.

Harping on rimworld, One of the most moddable games ever made, for the creator not understanding the depths of human sexuality is a little obtuse to say the least.

There are a lot of things that people won’t understand and there are so many mods to resolve this it seems silly to expect the creator to “get it”.

I’ve been around gay and trans people my entire life but I still don’t think that I fully understand human sexuality or our cultural relationships with gender norms.

Undoubtedly if I were to architect something like Rimworld I would get it wrong but I hope I would have the foresight to leave an amendment process so that it could be modded into fitting with people’s understanding in the future.

Yes. I am often an apologist for incomplete but well intentioned reasoning I encounter in the wild.

I try to first understand before I criticize and that has helped me to interpret other people’s words better.

An apology is not a bad thing or a good thing. It is a thing.

There are plenty of apologies that could be delivered that would meet those criteria and also be really mean things to say that do not make someone feel better.

All of it is an apology. An apology is just an explanation given after the fact. He felt the need to explain his actions further.

To be a full and complete apology many people expect all three of these components, but not All three are essential to every apology.

• an acknowledgment of harm,
• an expression of remorse,
• a pledge of recompense.

You could argue that he didn’t do a full and complete apology but you can’t argue that he didn’t apologize.

We should let the Democratic party choose a person through a primary to run for president and then allow that person to run for president.

If a woman makes it through that process on her own merits then the party will probably vote for her.

If on the other hand a woman is selected because she’s a woman who will cooperate with the donors and they decide to skip that process or subvert it in some way then you probably won’t win.