Enslaving someone against their will, dehumanizing them, and physically and emotionally abusing them is objectively wrong. It doesn’t matter one bit how many people in the past accepted it.

Ok. I don’t know how that contradicts what I said.

Every society that enslaved people was immoral, yes. I don’t know how anyone can argue otherwise.

No, that’s absolutely the wrong word. People cannot under any circumstances ever be illegal. Why? Because language matters. They can be undocumented, but they aren’t illegal. Only things can be illegal.

There’s also the distinction that a whole lot of people during that time in history knew that slavery was messed up. So messed up, in fact, that a war started over it. Robert E. Lee was on the wrong side of that war, meaning that, in a time in which slavery was widely recognized as evil, he chose to defend it.

Would the community have been more safe or less safe if these guys had not come forward to help put this guy behind bars?

There’s a distinction that ol’ John misses with his argument. When people suggest that you can’t use modern values to judge the actions of people from hundreds of years ago (or even decades), this is in the service of only understanding the context of why a particular thing was the way it was, from slavery to the…

“The decision... is a perfect example of the outlandish doctrine of judicial supremacy whereby judges exalt themselves over the Constitution they are sworn to uphold”

The solution to the EC problem (if you still want it artound) is so obvious it hurts, but changing the EC is almost impossible. Here’s what you do it you want to keep the EC, keep the “all or nothing” states, and keep swing states arbitrarily important.

considering that “cheap Chinese crap from Walmart” has literally nothing to do with our current issues surrounding income inequality, and it’s the first thing you say, I can’t consider any of the rest your post valid.

“A few rogue campaign staffers”? “Behind the back of the campaign”? Manafort was the campaign chairman.....

Manafort wasn’t a “rogue campaign staffer,” he was campaign MANAGER.

Lets wait for the details before we get too excited. I demand salacious indictments. If this is about fraud I’m going to get bored fast.

I’ll bet big money that Fox news covered his show’s closing on the 6PM show. DJT’s tweet came out at 6:18 PM.

Seems like a good opportunity to remind everyone of my favorite twitter thread ever (in reply to the pic included in this article, in fact!):

Zinke is living out his Teddy Roosevelt fantasy to the fullest, except in this fantasy he gets to give away public land to corporations, and make sure his friends get to grab as much money from the government as possible while neglecting people in need of services.

? I definitely never said that some magic users haven’t done great things. I dont think MLK attended many white megachurches

Huh, we must be reading different pieces. I heard a late-in-life believer who knows nothing about the politics of religion (and never cared to find out) discover, for the first time apparently, that Evangelicalism is chock full of racists. And at least now their children will be exposed to social justice and magic…

Wait, you mean people that actually believe what is obviously bronze-age mythology sprinkled with a healthy does of fear of the “other” throughout all its teachings aren’t gonna have the most nuanced views on race?

I think this was pretty clearly put together by the Interior Dept. and Sec. Zinke. This “administration” knows their days are numbered and aren’t even bothering to cover up the naked cash grabs anymore.