I was texting with my dad and my sister and my dad was like “ehh voter suppression doesn’t matter unless the race is really close,” and what I’m pretty sure he meant to say is “these voter suppression tactics don’t change the outcome unless it’s really close,” but I was like “it DOES matter, because you’re not going…

Seeing as how my father is a southern baptist minister, trust me, they both tried to make sex shameful and scary at every opportunity! Thankfully for me, that shit didn’t take and I have a wonderful, healthy view of sex. I’m sorry that you think it’s dirty and shameful. That’s sad. I hope you pull yourself out of that…

I’m not seeing anyone in the comments who’s horrified about people being red-listed by Interpol because they made a rich guy angry...I don’t love or admire these women, but that is some truly terrifying shit.

If someone was like “I’ll buy you a car worth half a mil,” I wouldn’t be like “Oh no, a Ford Focus is just fine for me!” Be fucking greedy! These dumbass men are willing to throw piles of money at beautiful women for the pleasure of their company? Take them for all they are worth.  You aren’t going to be young…

What’s wrong with being an escort? 

You’re right. There’s an easy fix for this:

It’s worse than that because they are deliberately teaching them skills that they know damn well the person won’t be able to use when they get out of prison and are lying to the prisoners to get them to “volunteer” for the position.

If the prisoners are going on about how much better being used as slaves fighting fires is compared to being in the prison the answer is to do not let the prisons do a half assed job feeding and taking care of the people under their care not to send them to do dangerous work for no damn money. Slavery is not the…

Being a slave for the state is not better than being a slave for a corporation. You’re literally paying no money to people who don’t really have the ability to say no regardless of your claims of “volunteering,” and teaching them skills they literally cannot use after they get out. What good does it do for the…

That’s just because prisons are horribly isolating and people generally like to work meaningful jobs. It’s the lack of pay and the refusal to hire them as firefighters afterwards that makes the program unethical. It's like how you might like your own job, but you wouldn't like your boss stealing your paycheck and…

It’s great that turnout was higher than it has been in a long time, but it’s still depressing on so many levels that it’s still less than half. 

Besides the crap pay and lack of prospects after term, isn’t this the kind of prison reform we want and see? Teach skills, put people to work, get them ready to re-enter society.

Yeah, but once they reenter society they can’t get a job with the skills they’ve learned in prison. Upon further reading, Cali has a shortage of firemen in rural parts of the state. Seems like a missed opportunity to me. 

I really, truly do not get the argument that Pelosi should step down as Speaker because of the usual political lip service paid to “bipartisan” efforts after a historic election day (best for the Dems since the 1970's!), and because she is somehow against progressive policies when she’s:
1) released an official policy…

I’m more interested in the Democrats demonization of Pelosi.

She’s an extremely competent, Older, Democratic woman. Have they ever needed anything more?

By the by, this is the first bill Democrats want to work on. Is this Progressive enough?

We should absolutely have Nancy Pelosi step down, because, if Paul Ryan’s tenure taught us nothing it’s that a completely inexperienced but on party trend speaker works out super great.

God forbid a black woman who is not a size small, sing about sex and enjoying said sex. Don't you know if you shop in the plus size section you're not allowed to fuck ever.

C’mon man, that was a Key & Peele sketch.