History thread:
This is Vox’s latest response to the Vegas massacre:
On the one hand: an interesting and relevant article.
On the other hand: militarism. Constant, reflexive worship of all things military. This is the water that US culture swims in.
Ta-Nehisi Coates gives Colbert the most soft-peddled version of reality possible, but Colbert still pushes back on it.
And his gun control opener was literally a promise of collaboration with anything the GOP proposes.
Very good episode:
Most of the comment thread on this is just bitter sarcasm, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
Lively gun control debate on Black Twitter. Splitting at least partially on gender lines.
It’s also bringing up some strange arguments; seeing Killer Mike cite the Revolutionary War as a part of his personal history of liberation was a bit weird.
There are times when I adore the British left. 
https://twitter.com/man_in_radiator/status/915038849281220608
Completely depressing set of threads. Between this and health care how does the US get to call itself a developed country?