He’s not self-hating. He’s not Jewish, so to paraphrase Krusty the Clown, he’s just a regular antisemite. And I’m alone in this, but I’m pretty sure he’s also not gay.

The point of the waiting period was to incentivize people to buy into the plan even during periods when they may not have needed care. It’s probably the only way that premiums could be so low.

It’s not that deep. Have you seen his hands?

They’re being used as places to corral people and keep them out of the general populace, not to *save* people. This is very similar to U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in the ‘40s or U.S. reservations for Native Americans earlier than that.

Don’t blame “the public”. I’m also part of the public. People should be able to make factual statements and have them interpreted in good faith. You should blame the people arguing in bad faith not the speaker in those cases.

Concentration camps were neither unique to the Holocaust nor new. The idea had existed for decades. The genocide by gas was new.

Concentration camps existed before Nazism in Germany and have existed after. The systematic murder by gas was novel to Nazism. The packing of people that the military authority despised into tight quarters pre-dates Nazi government by decades. The pope is not necessarily comparing these conditions to the Holocaust.

I was thinking, “Wow, that was fast.” Then I finally noticed the dates.

The Democrats have done pretty well without the aggressive campaigning on gun control in recent decades.

Those Obama voters are out there but the party moved left on guns.

A simple stop-gap answer is to drop the gun control stuff.

If he’s having trouble coping with objectively bad things and is behaving responsibly, I wouldn’t worry much. If he keeps using the crutch when nothing is wrong, it may be more suggestive of an addiction or a clinical form of depression or anxiety.

Neither of us has brought up theology. You brought up history. Your analysis of that history is pretty facile, and you should stop spreading it as though it’s some kind of basic fact. Lots of people feel intimidated against speaking out against the oppressive structure of Christian normativity, so I understand that…

I’d be sorry to see your health insurance get cut. However, if the Dems give an inch, they’re not just selling you out but also others.

You addressed the point about Jesus in a full paragraph and I’m derailing?

If by “Jesus” you don’t mean God or the son thereof, then you need to define what you mean by saying he existed before that claim can be evaluated.

No one’s gonna spend that kinda time looking at pictures of Eric Trump.

You didn’t get enough credit for the collective action pun.

Condoms are marginally free in Cuba. They use them for lots of things because everything else costs a lot. It took me an embarrassingly long period of time to realize that all the “balloons” everywhere were condoms.

I’d say that if you’re uncomfortable (and by bringing it up here it seems you are), then that’s a sign you definitely shouldn’t do it. I’d definitely tell him you’re uncomfortable. There’s nothing (in my view) wrong with consensual roleplay of rape, if all parties are into it. It’s a tough thing to do, though, because…