Hey, it was locker room talk. Read more

My mother had worked for years at a company that made ribbon, and around the holidays she moonlighted at one of the big downtown department stores as a gift wrapper. In short, an actual professional at this. She could pick up any random box, cover it elegantly with just the correct amount of wrapping paper, and make… Read more

Boxes and gift bags aren’t part of the contest. Read more

Nick Martin did a terrible job, but afterwards he declared that voting on who did the best was meaningless and just chucked all of the wonderful gifts the Splinter staff had access to in the trash. His wrapping sucked, too. Read more

Ummm... If it’s a weird-shaped object, put it in a box and wrap the box, or put it in a gift bag. 
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Thank you for sharing this video of 2 of Splinter’s good writers.
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Old rich white dude likes Republicans, hates unions, doesn’t know what newfangled things are, has generally bad opinions, doesn’t know what the word “slave”means. Read more

Rich guy likes money Read more

Yeah, I should have been more broad than just saying “demographics” because it’s not just race/sex, it’s a generation of young people inevitably fed up with late-stage capitalism and are embracing socialism.
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One problem with your statement: when you said she actually knows what she is talking about. Read this article that compares her to Trump. It’s informative and a bit humorous. Read more

...and what scares them more than “socialism” is actually picking up a book and reading what “socialism” really is. Read more

Agreed, but I think the socialism scares them more than the demographics.  The only color they care about more than white is green. Read more

I don’t think it’s weird at all, to be honest - she epitomizes everything they fear about the inevitable demographics shift of the future, and their inability to stop this trend freaks them right the fuck out. And I love it. And that’s not to mention she’s talking about all the things the establishment doesn’t want… Read more

Democratic Party strategist A: Read more

How racism won America. Read more

Are you suggesting whites are the only group influenced by identity politics?  Read more

It comes as no surprise that American voters are still largely influenced by many of the same tactics... Read more

I lived in the sticks. I know what it looks like. I have to fight every day just not to be an asshat. And I have to admit, until a bullet is put into my brain or I die of old age, the things I grew up with are likely to influence my everyday such that I have to fight against them every waking second. I’m not a good… Read more

racism went mainstream in the last couple of years Read more

Lots of racists lost though and even those that won did so more through voter suppression than by appealing to racist sentiment in the electorate.
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