So long, and thanks for all the shit.

“They never ask themselves, “What if I’m wrong?” because that’s a speculative, curiosity-based investigative query that invites exploration and research.”

Everyone has a hard time admitting they’ve done anything wrong. I’ve yet to see any difference between hardcore conservatives and hardcore progressives in the “self assuredness that they are 100% morally right” department.

Here is what Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate and the world’s foremost expert on cognitive bais, has to say about your conclusion that ideology is a choice and the proper object of scorn:

So, for the sake of this conversation about how conservatives grew up being indoctrinated by the left, you are saying that NOW kids are being indoctrinated by the left even if they weren’t before.

I figure that the average demographic that still actually watches local news, as opposed to getting their information online, also watches Fox anyway.

Those were all Gungans and in the extended Blue Ray version they’re all gonna have voices and throughout the whole fight they’re gonna be saying shit like “Oopsie me have a stabby” really loudly

I quit doing what I loved — teaching — because the realities of teaching (low pay, high stress, long hours) outweighed the love. Now I have a job I like that pays me money and I teach for fun on the side. In my case, doing what I loved was breaking my heart.

Exactly. This is why I will never ever ever be able to make a living doing what I love:

And I found it’s also fine to find something you just like and are good at that pays well, so you can do what you love in your free time.

Wait... Do you actually take him seriously? You know he’s just an oversized lizard that’s learned human speech, right?

Wait... Do you actually take him seriously? You know he’s just an oversized lizard that’s learned human speech,…

Classy. You've represented Trump supporters well.

Classy. You've represented Trump supporters well.

+1 for the Trump comment. I almost missed it. Well done.

+1 for the Trump comment. I almost missed it. Well done.

Yes! I’ll just ride my bike from Missouri to Australia. Why didn’t I think of that?

I mean, it’s a funny line, but moving us to the metric system is 1000000x more beneficial and sane than anything anybody uttered on stage last night.

That’s all great, but it has, like, no motivation. I know it’s on me, but I’m trying to find a way to get motivated and/or care.

Never let it be said that I don’t know how to play to my audience!

Try armed rebellion in 2015 and see how long that shit lasts. The U.S. government would turn even a well-armed militia into Swiss cheese before Joe Blow’s first shell casing hit the ground. This argument is pathetically weak.

I honestly feel sorry for the people that are so paranoid, terrified, and have so little self confidence that they must ABSOLUTELY carry a weapon.

But you’re the one insulting the author and implying that her “hidden agenda” will somehow decrease your privilege.