But if your moral code allows for exceptions, what use is it? What good is a justice system that isn’t applied equally in all cases?

He’s a murderer, a terrorist, an unapologetic racist, and an evil piece of shit.

Technology is not morally neutral.

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but...they’re not wrong.

Considering they posted naked photos of him taken by a pap a few years ago, I wasn’t going to put it past them.

Speaking of revenge porn, did you guys really post pictures of Justin Bieber masturbating?? I refuse to click on the post, and if you really did, I’m fucking done. Did you learn nothing from the whole Hulk Hogan fiasco? Do you really need a long vacation and thought that unemployment was the way to go?

Not just the missile crisis. The Cuban Revolution scared the crap out of the US government; they were really worried that other Latin American countries might follow suit. That’s at least part of why the US supported right-wing dictators down there, and why the CIA went around foiling populist uprisings and trying to…

One can’t blame Castro for the actions the USA took to stem communism. The School of The Americas, their backing of Ultra Right dictators, those are the USA’s deeds alone, done to fight to protect their business interests abroad.

Difference being that one was a puppet installed by an imperialist superpower and one was not. One can acknowledge Castro’s oppression of dissent while also finding it ridiculous that Americans still somehow think they have moral authority to condemn him on human rights. This attitude is simply preposterous.

Like many “communist” predecessors, he abused a system meant for the people to benefit himself first and foremost.

That Kaepernick article really falls apart at the end. The writer’s experience leaving Cuba was clearly terrible and extremely relevant, but the way he tries to brush off the US’ mass incarceration problem lacks as much nuance as Kap’s argument. As if families are only broken up in the US when the crime is murder.

Amen to that. My mother was shamed for having gotten pregnant in HS. She was sent to an awful late 1940s Catholic home for fallen women. Her child was taken from her a few weeks after he was born. For a few weeks the nuns had the moms breastfeed their infants, why not save on formula, right? Then, one day, her baby…

My great grandmother lived in a theocracy and an extremely patriarchal culture, where if you found a man who didn’t drink too much or beat you too badly, he was a catch. You knew he was going to gamble your life away while you were stuck home with 13 starving children but hey, what’s a woman’s life? In any case, my…

This is so true. You can’t brutalize women as a society and then expect them to be perfect nurturing angels. If you force a woman to have a child she doesn’t want, odds are her relationship with that child will be extremely complicated. Or, of course, the woman may not be around at all.

My best friend and I were in the parking lot of a church (we attended his great-uncle’s funeral) when he dared me to sneeze on his deceased’s face. My friend absolutely loathed his uncle, and for good reason. But he’d promised to briefly attend the service and not make a scene, so he wanted one last posthumous dig…

This is where it gets a little tricky.

I get it. I grew up in a moderate-sized town where the only people who had any education beyond high school were the teachers and handful of doctors and lawyers. Most of the adults worked at one of a dozen or so factories. I think you’re right that, on the whole, when those manufacturing jobs go away it’s a signal of…