The sheer stress and misery of so many American lives is a HUGE reason for the obesity epidemic. The need for some comfort is a big factor in people’s food choices, and the systemic failures of our society seriously drive that.

He’s a libertarian, so of course he’s all about personal responsibility, etc.

No one’s arguing with the importance of a healthy lifestyle, it’s just that a healthy lifestyle is not equally accessible, and is completely inaccessible to many. It is not a “personal choice” for most people, and when it is framed as such that’s when people get “attacked by the left.” The targets should be systemic…

The point isn’t that obesity is a risk factor - the point is that the Whole Foods CEO has absolutely no right to make the point and blame obesity on the people who have it. The fault (in the vast majority of cases) is not theirs, it’s on the systems that have made fresh food and healthcare unaffordable and…

At the time I thought “not a great movie”.  Looking back on it with my 2020 sensibilities and I realise it couldn’t have been more problematic if it had come with the tagline “Bitches be Super-Crazy”.

I mean, there isn’t any space in the US education system for critical thinking. Everything is based around getting kids to pass the next standardized test. “Don’t think about it, just regurgitate these answers and you’ll make it.” My kid loves science, but she loves in it a “ooh, stuff goes boom” sense rather than out…

Here’s my far-out, nutty, liberal pinko agenda: Can we PLEASE make critical thinking part of the basic curriculum in public schools - perhaps hand-in-hand with stronger science programs? I’m constantly appalled at the confused, the crazy, and the brainwashed. This kind of thinking used to be fringe but the buzz of…

Came here to say exactly this. People with the predisposition to fall for snake oil pitches will fall for almost anything that is framed correctly and fed to them the right way. Critical thinking and skepticism are vital to navigating the modern world without being duped. It’s one reason having a higher education is…

“The satanic cabal that has been ruling the world for thousands of years is about to be exposed and exterminated.”

The wellness movement is largely built on the magical thinking we can control our fate with the correct behavior. Surely if we do enough yoga and eat only the correct things and find inner peace we’ll never ever get sick.

So, should Biden win, in his first budget I’d cut defense spending by 25%

It was never about protecting the homeland. The country has been murdering foreigners in their lands for 225 of its 243 year existence. That’s 93% of its lifespan your citizens are flat out murderers. Not to mention all the collateral damage, destroyed economies and decimated countries. The sheer destruction caused by…

No, not all indigenous people. The good (read, white) ones. The bad (read, actual native Americans) ones killed all the good ones, that’s why there were no white people in the Americas when the Europeans got here.

We need to do more to decouple religion from politics. It’s insane that the rest of us have to abide by other people’s psychosis.

When you’re directly responsible for killing 200 000 Americans, who never had to die but did because Trump wanted to ignore COVID-19, you are not allowed to claim you have moral superiority.

You need to remember Romney believes that Jesus magically teleported to North America and taught the indigenous people his ways and then buried golden pages in some random spot that would be discovered by a known conman, who then refused to show them to anyone at all.

Unfortunately Trump’s packed the lower courts too. So basically....view the entire judiciary system as toxic for the next 25 years, and find a way to work around it.

Religious supremacy matters to Romney more than women’s lives. Never mind that Jesus never said a word about abortion. Romney prefers to go with the guy who violates all of Jesus’s edicts about loving your neighbors, welcoming strangers, feeding the poor, sheltering the poor, and paying your goddamn taxes. 

Welp, time to prepare my guest bedroom for the Underground Abortion Railroad...

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