Someone should tell him that plastic explosive is an inanimate object. Why isn’t every gun owner allowed to pack a few pounds of high explosives in case the government turns bad, as their arguments seems to run? Or, while we’re at it, nuclear ordinance? Bring the Mutually Assured Destruction down to grassroot levels!

Maybe the Republican primaries should just be a duel or series of duels to show which candidate is the best with a gun. That will show just how patriotic they truly are.

Some good friends of mine - both straight white guys in their 40's - who are usually totally on the same side of most things I am were recently bitching about how they have no “white privilege” because they grew up lower class.

You...don’t? It’s pretty basic. If zero immigrants were here illegally, the doctors would prioritize care. If ALL immigrants were here illegally, the doctors would prioritize care.
Since doctor’s don’t care about status, for treatment, training the immigrants to only immigrate legally is meaningless for doctors.

I’m not sure if you are understanding my statements. You made the statement that the Dutch are capitalist, I gave a bunch of examples about how their government empowers the average worker. All of these examples would be considered toxic in the US and anti-capitalist. Also state colleges are not affordable in the US.…

No. Doctors care first and foremost about treatment. Your status in the country is of very little importance to a doctor, when your life or wellbeing, or the lives or wellbeing of those around you, is on the line. That’s what we call ‘prioritizing empathy’. It makes the world a better place.

Also, as a legal document, the Constitution is fucking bonkers. It’s like the Bible in that it’s so vague that it can and has been trotted out to make any point by any side that makes no fucking sense. One of the reasons that most lawyers view Scalia as having a terrific mind for the law is that the fact that he was…

If only they could train ICE agents to stay out in the first place....

Jane Mayer has covered wingnut cash the best, followed probably by Charlie Pierce. If nothing says: the rich need to be taxed more than this sort of stuff i dont know what does. Truly unlimited amounts of money to throw around eveyrwhere and anywhere. Movement conservatism is part ponzi scheme, part decades long…

Oklahoma lawyer here. Pruitt has had a remarkably uncontested career. The major newspaper here is owned by an oil and gas guy, so Pruitt received almost zero negative press coverage within the state during his 6 years as AG. Even those of us who knew him in the legal community and couldn’t stand him couldn’t get our…

We bitch at each other.

This further proves the fact there is no alt-, this -is- the right. They just lack the cahones to openly stand behind their own bullshit.

Well, he and his kind have managed to greatly curtail women’s right to an abortion in a lot of states.

Discerning between views and ideas that have value and those that do not is not creating an “echo chamber”, it’s an integral part of healthy discourse.

Oh, bullshit. The fact no one is comfortable even entertaining an opposing view is the problem.

When one “side” is filled with Nazis who hate black people, women, immigrants, trans people, and gay people, they are not a “side” but a small contingent of crazy fearful bigots who do not deserve a public platform. Germany has the right idea about refusing to air the opinions of Nazis. Hate speech is not a protected…

We’re not talking about differences in opinion over fucking marginal tax rates, we’re talking about someone who advocates for summary mass execution of fellow citizens.

Dude. Williamson does not have anything meaningful or useful to contribute to any important conversation.

You are so fucking stupid

Oh I see, you want to play a game of No True Scotsman where liberals must defend their right to live from vile conservatives while at the same time you get to say that they aren’t real conservatives.