To Be A Coward

George K · "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

Hate-read the whole thread.

I’m glad I had the opportunity to vote against him three times. Third one took.

Sorry...but I have to ask: Why did you vote against DOCTOR Bowman?

jon-nyc

In the primaries because there was always someone better (never someone worse) and in the general to make a statement knowing it was futile.

taiwan_girl

Everybodies favorite congressman.

Horace

AOC won't feel safe until Daniel Penny is in prison.

jon-nyc

She knows in her heart of hearts that had she been in that subway car that day she would have felt profound relief when a strong young man took down the crazy.

I’ve seen the crazy. Everyone who rides (or in my case rode) the subway regularly eventually does. It’s pretty scary, because you ultimately don’t know what kind of weapon the guy has but you do know he’s not at all bound by civility, sanity, or even self preservation.

Jolly

Something almost ubiquitous among victims of a violent attack... " I never thought he/she would do that".

Horace

Progressive females painting themselves into a corner is a thing, too. The general advice is to trust their instincts in all things involving personal safety, but they really can't, if their instinct might be slightly tinged by what a stranger looks like. I recall the lady a couple years ago who held her apartment complex security door open for the scruffy looking black guy, then rode the elevator up with him, where he killed her.

Horace

So I looked up that story about the progressive white woman who opened the security door for the scruffy looking black guy. Found her name and googled it + “ Reddit”. Yep first discussion is about how women need to trust their instincts even if it makes them feel racist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/s/8j4K3of9NC

This story has always stuck with me because it’s such a striking example of a progressive female shaming herself to death.

jon-nyc

I’m either misremembering one detail or there’s another story like that that happened in NYC some years ago.

LuFins Dad

I believe the story @Horace is talking about took place in Baltimore.

And come on, if AOC had been on that subway train with Neely and Penny, she totally would have “rewarded” Penny, and directly in front of her milquetoast boyfriend or fiancé.