This reminds me of a friend’s defense of her friends’ support for Trump: they are not racists they just care about the deficit...ha ha ha ha ha. If you “care about the deficit”* enough to overlook this level of racism you are a racist.

Fucking white people.

Oh I’m so over people blathering on about wanting outsiders in government. I’m finishing a degree in public administration, and it makes me crazy that wide swaths of Americans think it’s beneficial to have someone in office that knows absolutely nothing about the field or profession. It’s like saying ‘GE should really…

This. I’m the black sheep of my family - everyone else is some degree of conservative Republican. There are a few who probably think they need to save me because they think I’m going to hell. I grew up believing what they believed, but started to evolve my own beliefs when I moved away and went to college. I imagine…

OH MY GOD. Good move on your part Eliazer, but JFC what an asshole.

The same way that so many reasonable, empathetic liberals come from bigoted conservative families, probably. They found an ideological system that resonated with them and rejected their family’s input.

Reminder of the latest deflection from the “I’m not racist, BUT” sect, which is basically yet another “thanks, Obama” meme. Apparently, liberals created this white nationalist movement. It’s liberals’ faults because they have constantly been reminding white people that “you are white, you have privilege, etc” for…

The President is a white supremacist. He can condemn, in the most explicit words, virtually everything else under the sun. The reason he didn’t condemn these Nazis is because he is one. If he wanted to, he would have. He just didn’t want to.

Nobody was. This was a bench trial.

She does, she has depression.

It’s almost like looking good in a cocktail dress and channeling righteous indignation are not all it takes to have a handle on the issues.

You’re right. GOSH is a world class paediatric centre, they were well aware of nucleoside therapy and explored it as an option early on but it became clear that it would not help in this case. You can read their position statement here:

The couple said they had wanted to give Charlie a real chance of getting better and that a “whole lot of time has been wasted.”

Unfortunately, it sounds like they’re blaming GOSH for not being able to start the experimental treatment earlier when, by most accounts the treatment wouldn’t have been able to help no matter when he received it.

I’m a parent and fully understand the emotional want to do what they can. However the asshole pragmatic in me knows this treatment would at best be tilting at windmills and would do nothing to help Charlie. Best to let the lad pass on in his own time surrounded by family.

This is very sad. It seems to me like it has been too late to do anything for Charlie for a long time, and it seems his parents were finally able to accept that. I hope they get the help and support they need to get through this terrible time.

the whole ‘courts as government’ thing is partly a cultural difference thing.

In the UK, judges are not elected and do not rule along party lines. I agree they have a role in the interpretation and application of law but in the UK, government only refers to the House of Commons, House of Lords and local (county) councils. Therefore, the judiciary is seen as completely separate. By using the…

courts are part of the state perhaps, but by centuries long tradition apolitical in the UK a court might tell a government what to do but the government cannot tell the court what judgement to give, and the courts position is the one that is english common law, the rights of the patient must outweigh those of the…