I was grayed for my last take on this issue.

Is this going to be an echo chamber for those who want to justify voter apathy? Because, more and more, that seems to be the angle Splinter is taking. And, yeah, that’s bad.

Hell, some folks went as far as to cite the voter suppression efforts happening to Native Americans as example of my white privilege, despite the facts that 1) I am not white and 2) I have written about Native-specific issue numerous times since joining Splinter three weeks ago.

The Republican party has never met a black woman they weren’t terrified of politically.

The appropriate response to hearing about a caravan of desperate people trying to get to the U.S. and apply to asylum was to send a bus to pick them up.

They will be fucking dead to me if they vote R ever again after a bunch of families are massacred at our border. Fucking dead.

not murdering people looking to escape violence and persecution

Haha, I’m gay and was raised in the south, I won’t see a cent of what they have. Which is fine, I wouldn’t really want any of it to begin with. Not with the expectations that would be attached.

Keep em pregnant, keep em poor

Lucky enough, I’m queer as a three dollar bill, and having a child would already be a process that would cost me thousands of dollars that I will literally never have. So paying for college isn’t much of a concern. My only surviving relatives are rich, they can pay for their own health concerns.

The state position for me requires a 15% withdrawal for the retirement program - coupled with the normal taxes on top of that, resulting in me losing about a third of my paycheck each month to taxes and retirement. Which I’m mostly fine with - I’ll be able to retire at 52. And I get over thirty days off per year,…

I’m an administrator for a state agency.

absolutely abysmal economy.

#believewomen

I’d been doing my taxes since 13 when I could legally get a w2 job. of course my parents helped me then, but by the time I was 16 I was doing them without anyone even checking my work, because basic math was a thing then too. I also handled all my college paperwork and loan info. I also had my own post office box at…

Have they never gotten a passport or anything before, at the very least? Never had to pick up a package?

You’re probably not wrong....approximately 22.5% of millennials ages 24 through 36 are living at home with their moms or both parents, up nine percentage points since 2005 and the most in any year in the last decade.

Someone needs to tell these people that being a grownup means doing several dozen things a day that you aren’t necessarily thrilled about but need to be done.

To be fair, our educational system encourages this type of thinking, where there is one right answer and lots of wrong answers and the teacher will just tell you the right answer to memorize for the two thousandth test you are going to take that day.

What is so insulting is the stupidest, most corrupt, most blatantly evil people are in power and are working to make their positions of power unaccountable to justice and the rule of law.