The shootings are the latest in a string of seemingly lone-wolf politically motivated violence.

Good grief, could they whitewash this any harder?

Given she’s Latina, banning abortion would be a safe bet.

Because it’s not only about how much I have, it’s about how much you people don’t have!

It helps the rich. More money and stupider labor.

In my district the highest drug use was in a predominantly white school.

This had nothing to do with race and everything to do with the fact that they had a large campus and so could find more places to get out of sight to do drugs.

Well, there’s a hot take if I ever saw one. A strawman, a bot accusation, some fascinatingly false takes, and a little oh-poor-me as the cherry on top.

How about an alternate theory: people are just tired of being told by people like you to ‘just be nice’ to the person who keeps punching them in the face?

Here’s one

I agree. I think that’s why I like Kate Griffin’s Matthew Swift series (and the other novels she sets in the same ‘verse). The general rules of the magic system are explained, but the magic still feels wild and mysterious and… well, magical.

If we’re talking ‘young adult’ (which I think is a silly book classification group), the Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede always gets my top pick—shorter, sassy, fun, with well-written female protagonists. (All her books are pretty good, really.)

Another of my top choices in the Fantasy YA category are the Tiffany Aching books by Sir Terry Pratchett. Great fun and Sir Terry’s wonderful brand of biting wisdom.

If you like the ‘kids go to boarding school, have magical adventures, save the world’ formula, Mercedes Lackey did a pretty good series called the Shadow Grail. Although the kids are older (and more sensible) than the Harry Potter protagonists.

The Castle Books by John DeChancie are another fun romp of a series. Younger me loved the idea of a castle filled with 144,000 portals to adventure. Although the technology in it is a bit dated—at this point in time, rather humorously so.

Gail Carriger’s book series are all a good read; my favorite she’s done so far is the Finishing Series. Not as much magic as other books on this list, but still a well-thought-out system. Her books are really more steampunk-fantasy with a sprinkling of magic on top.

China Mievelle doesn’t really write series, per se, but all his books are fun and well-written, with interesting twists and ideas. I’d say they are the very definition of whimsical.

If your requirements are ‘good books by authors as awful as JK Rowling’, well, that’s tougher, but fortunately David and Leigh Eddings decided to throw their hats in the ring! Horrible child abusers, but their writings are genuinely good, way better than what Rowling writes.

Two reasons. The first is that Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

And they make sure they are in the first group by shoving other people into the second.

The second reason is that they have the sort of mind that believes in Absolute Order. Everything has a Place, a very rigid set of rules that define what it is, how it can act, and what it can do. If something/someone is Out Of Place, then the very fabric of society will weaken and eventually crumble.

LGBTQ people don’t fit in the boxes labeled ‘proper woman’ and ‘proper man’, so they must be destroyed lest they cause society itself to collapse.

Keep in mind too that they’re not always accurate. I know of one in my city that regularly takes photos of people going through on the green because it’s a bit of a wonky intersection. And that means a person gets to spend their day in court instead of at work fighting a ticket they did not deserve.

Age matters too. Older eggs are easier to peel.

Just wish Chick-fil-A wasn’t giving all their money to conversion camps.

You mean the coalition of Trump-Puppet people and Israel-Puppet people? Trump might as well be king; no-one is going to stop him.

So Octarine, basically.

No. That just legitimizes them. You have to shut them down and march them off stage.

Ignoring bullies only empowers them.

Oh, he runs it. Just not well. He sucks at real CEO work like he sucks at everything else in his life.

But he’s from a high-class Indian family. As far as he and his family are concerned, that makes them ‘white’.

Seriously, Indian classism is even nastier than US racism.

Yeah, except he and his brother own majority shares in Tesla and pretty much hand-picked the board. I bet this is nothing but performative; they get a new ‘face’ for the company while he still runs Tesla from the background, Wizard of Oz style.

These people have been taught their whole lives that being good is something you are, not something you do.