There is no good argument. Just understanding. During, but especially after, Reagan the GOP leaned hard into the right and began embracing anti-democratic, authoritarian, and racist policies. Subsequently a lot of pro-democracy conservatives found themselves occupying the ideological DMZ between the left-leaning…

See, but that statement right there, and the underlying ideal it represents, is where the disconnect happens. And has always happened, to this day, by generations of smart, well-meaning, people.

The US Federal system was never intended to enforce majority rule. In 1776, the majority of eligible voters (e.g. land-owning…

If I had to hazard a guess, it’s probably going to be a three hour “diversity training” course and maybe, maybe suspension with pay.

Not to defend the guildy tank’s asinine behavior, but how differently do you think they would have reacted if you came back from AFK and said “Sorry about that, my wife cut herself and I had to deal with real life.”

From my experience, the whole thing would have never been a thing had you been more up front about why…

It was an actual job. It was brutal. It was ‘manager this, manager that,’ fuckin’ ‘employee this, cop problem that.’ I can think of five scenarios I actually got to do whatever I felt like, and that was going on the alien hunt and the couple of times I got to go to the police station.

Right? It used to be annoying that every GOP congressperson (and most DNC) had to be ivy league educated lawyers from families of means. But over the past 5 or so years the GOP has really lowered the bar with their representatives. Wresting coaches, high school dropouts, conspiracy dopes, small business failures, Trey…

...why is it when the subject of slavery in the U.S. rears its ugly head, someone has to remind us (like we didn’t already fucking know) that there were slaves in other countries?

Facebook: Oh well they’re not REAL Trump supporters. We’d never do that.

Dead on. These jackasses know that anyone who actually looks (Dems only, currently) can see their con for what it is. They rely on the complicity of both the Republican “law makers” sitting in elected seats and doing their utmost to redirect or outright lie to “reinforce” their story and the strengths of the modern…

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As you are fully aware, though, “defund the police” is divisive, so we are stuck at an impasse with no room for compromise.

I’ll make a statement that I know most of us here will knee-jerk refute, but, in regard to the WTO and globalism in general, Trump had the right idea. If the USA is to ever regain its true independence, we must invest heavily in domestic manufacturing and resource utilization. We must bring home essential industry and…

I pretty much expected the same thing, to be dead or as-good-as by 30. In my early 20s I more or less took it as a given. Lost more than a handful of friends to heroin (how that particular beast became a thing in the late-90s, early 00s, punk scene is still a bit of a mystery to me) in the first half of my 20s. I…

Thanks, I hadn’t yet noticed that many of them are seeing upgraded charges after the initial milquetoast warrants for arrest. Seeing the reports on the upgraded charges starting to come out gives me a smidgen of hope that enough of these assholes will end up totally fucked.

As far as Becky’s Flowers’ staffing numbers,…

BTW 2... I’m disappointed that the mom here was unable to do better for her child, but we shouldn’t forget how difficult us is for parents to avoid being overwhelmed. Financial distress, covid-19, and all the other fiddy leven other things families are dealing with right now are stressing families to the breaking…

Chase that a little further; how many employees, do you think, work at Becky’s? 2? 3? Fuck this clown, charge her with contempt for even floating the request and ruin the rest of her miserable life.

I’ve been keeping tabs on the fallout, as many of you have been as well, am I the only one who sees these limp wristed…

siting more than ten women had been abused by officers and one...

I’m curious about why the NYT thinks that the “everyday workingman” even reads the NYT enough to justify the cost of the writer.

Thanks for the link, my OP was kinda meant to be disingenuous, the reality is more like “aside from a temporary blip following WW2, most Americans are huge fans of the Nazis and the recent surge in Americans being proudly vocal about it is more-or-less business as usual in the USA.”

But it’s nice that, for a brief…

“a far-left anti-fascist movement whose adherents sometimes engage in violent clashes with right-wing extremists.”