I’ve worked for the past 10 years in Non-profit organizations only to be told that I don’t have the right kind of loans. They’ve reimbursed something like 0.3% of the applicants to the PSLF. Functionally it may as well not even exist.

From the follow up question it sounds like he wants PSLF to forgive eligible loans…

My exact thought when it came to lines like this:

Ahh yes. I remember doing my volunteer internship for the federal agency. Did that for two years as I finished that engineering degree. Was pretty much supposed to slide me right into that job where one of the benefits was after 3 years of federal work all debt was paid off(you know, since federal salaries aren’t…

Right? I swear I heard the *whoosh* sound when I read that line.

Lol @ Aunt Splintypat huffing your smelling-salts over here. “Would you mind turning off your fundamental personality for the duration of this campaign, Mr. O’Rourke? We just don’t find it appropriate.”

There is no way you can model a presidential campaign off of DIY.

I see no inaccuracies. The first paragraph, imo, is really top-notch. But the Heather Heyer story and her killer’s conviction is fairly well known by now. However, I had to Google Zachary Greenberg just now (embedded links aren’t my thing - usually WaPo or NYTimes - can’t afford them). The incident occurred on Feb 19,…

“Reparations” can mean a lot of different things. Cash payouts of thousands if not hundreds of thousands to people who are not prepared will not improve their lives in the long run. You don’t fix poverty with financial payouts, there have to be long term institutional changes first.

Yeah this is a library. This is the same as a library, and “we shouldn’t ban biographies” is relevant to the situation once you’ve read the article.

And yet, I would be at least suspicious if a politician had a copy of Mein Kampf on display in their office. This is not a library.

I bet all she'd have to do is take one look and she'd be all over you, bro. The specimen you'd present would probably be enough to make her want to fix you a sammich.

I stand by my statement that it’s a sweet guitar.

They say the most exciting play in St. Louis baseball is a Yadier Molina triple into the left field corner - most of the excitement comes from seeing if Molina can beat it out for a single.

We don’t need statues to understand history. These statues don’t represent history. They are propaganda, meant to celebrate traitors who fought for the right to brutally subjugate an entire race of people. 

I’d go with baseball too, except what would appeal to me is the amount of time there is to screw around on the job. Dugout tomfoolery ftw.

Because they’re both awful public speakers?

Yeah, it was just me going on another flight of fancy. Oh well. 

He was referring to another glaring example of incompetence from that front office just a few weeks ago. Seems relevant to me.

Counterpoint: Babe Ruth living today, in a country with legal alcohol, internet pornography, and being paid tens of millions of dollars a year, would be dead within 12 months. It’s like when Bender became human in that one Futurama episode.