It can. But a staggering number of documents from the Confederacy (letters of succession, constitutions, the cornerstone speech) pretty much make it clear that slavery was the primary reason. They weren’t happy that Lincon was elected via electoral college (he lost most if not all of the Southern states); but their…

Because you have schools teaching that it was about state’s rights and calling it the war of northern aggression.   I’ve have heard this bullshit more times than I care to count.   

Tell me again how it was really about state’s rights?

Would you rather they had done a deep dive into his voting record before the election? Because I have a feeling the #resistance cell that stalks this site would have shit depleted uranium bricks over it.

I have nothing against Beto O’Rourke but I agree that he is not what he seems to be. There is a lot of projection occurring endowing potential candidates with traits they don’t possess in order to pigeon hole them into the narrative that they are the one to restore our nation and depose the tyranny of stupidity that…

You should probably stop replying, that’s Tomato’s new alias.

She. lost. the. election. Is she in the White House? No, she isn’t. 

She was the second least-liked candidate in polling history. She, unlike other losing candidates, has only gotten less well-liked since losing.

He was “good enough” because he was running against Cruz, who is worse. Now he’s being compared to potential other candidates in a Democratic primary, who are, in many cases, better. This isn’t difficult to understand.

Except you’re not moving on. You’re going to be here every day shitting on leftist policy from your smug high horse from now until the heat death of the universe. 

“Hi I’m Beto O’Rourke and I believe *kickflip to nose manual* the free market can better serve all of society’s needs!”

A steaming turd would be better than anyone on the (R) side of the aisle. We need to raise the bar a little bit...

Yeah but running “any Dem” gave us The Orange Hitler presidency. How about the party establishment backing a “not-shitty” Dem for starters? It would go a long way

GINA is from a more civilized time....2008

Given the ongoing data leaks and private information scandals at every corporation, I’m surprised anyone would voluntarily take any of these tests. At the very least, we know 23andme sell your data to drug companies (GlaxoSmithKline have a $300M stake in them) which means by extension, your DNA data is then being sold…

It’s true that most research done with people doesn’t come with any expectations of pay (which some bioethicists already object to). But much of this research, particularly when publicly funded, is done to advance our understanding of science in some way, the greater good in other words, over trying to create the next…

You hit the nail on the head. This data will be used for greed. in 20-30 years, this data people so readily share will be used for insurers to adjust policies to include predisposed family traits\diseases even if you do not have the disease.

In July, 23andMe also announced it had entered into a four-year partnership with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to potentially develop new drugs and treatments, which will include the sharing of anonymized, de-identified customer DNA.