Amen. Although, in my case, they were the ones who moved out of state (to Arizona, which is essentially the Chicago of liberal boogeyman places). I think we got the better end of the deal.

My dad has been on the “Hillary has secret brain damage” train for YEARS and it’s funny to hear my liberal friends hear it for the first time this election cycle. Funny because if I don’t laugh at it I’d have to really consider my father’s political views and probably would never stop crying.

It’s interesting to hear you say that, because I grew up in poor, white working class Upstate NY as well, and everyone was super SUPER pro-fracking. They saw anti-frakkers as rich liberals trying to make sure their kids had no shot at a good job.

I mean also like...the Democratic platform is very much NOT Islamic...conservative Muslims tend to like pretty much the same silly things as conservative Christians and conservative Jews (politically conservative). Pity they keep infighting or we could ship them off somewhere and let them force women to sit in the…

Sounds like the right people to blame...I would also place some blame on the American people, for ensuring that in most cases, reps who don’t take lobbyist money can’t win races. If we turned out/donated more, then the power of money would be blunted, but we don’t.

Sure, I would love that! Would love to pay more taxes and get easier and better access to healthcare! Glad to find others who feel the same.

That’s what I’m saying...presumably the free market would drive down prices by allowing competition, no? That’s the argument for it?

That’s because pharma companies didn’t want the government to be able to not pay their crazy price. Seems like you’re putting the blame on the wrong people.

Why is a monopoly in this instance a bad thing? I don’t want to have to shop around for what drug to take. I want the drug my doctor prescribes to be readily and easily available and reasonably priced. I don’t want to have to do research on 5 different versions of the same medicine.

Ugh, besides all the obvious ways that this is gross, how do you think being used like this is going to make her feel about reporting an incident if something were to happen to her or a friend in the future?

Considering how close Lena Dunham has been with the campaign, I wonder how the whole bounty-for-unphotoshopped-pics tsuris factored into this

Are you generally this opposed to consumer protection laws, or only when it’s something that you think is dumb? What’s your expertise in this matter that makes you single these existing regulations as apparently overreaching?

I feel like people are very deliberately misconstruing your point because they feel that their point is only powerful if it’s an unassailable truth. Remember that woman, back in 2008?, who carved shit into her face and claimed she was attacked by Obama supporters? Now, I’m still going to say that when someone states…

With Gawker going away I feel like the Flag/Dismiss button on Jez is going to be mysteriously phased out to ensure “healthy discussion” and “room for all viewpoints” :(

It sounds like, then, even running at full capacity, they could have done the same photo op? Which makes calling them out even more of a dick move, let them have an off day and a nice moment dude, lol

While I’m similarly frustrated with that poster, after a (mediocre) night’s sleep to think on it, I’m 100% convinced that they are white and upper middle class, and most likely had a feminine mystique-d mom. So, I’m just gonna feel bad for their limited perspective and lack of knowledge of that limit.

Again, I’m gonna venture a guess that the women being arrested now would still have been 100 years ago. Read At The Dark End of the Street for a great view of how brutally law enforcement treated (and still treats) black women back in the day.

I have a feeling that the women committing crimes would have been the women employed 50-100 years ago. Factory workers, domestic workers, secretaries, nannies, prostitutes, etc: women have been working for centuries.

It’s almost like talking to people is more productive than talking at them, imagine that :P

I’m with you on justice, definitely. I’m a nihilist, but I also believe that we have a duty to work to help others, so I have some complicated emotions around it, especially discussing it with people who are religious. Justice is a goal, and a more-than-worthy one, but “Justice” as a concrete or inherent principle is…