No, the Dems caved to GOP opposition and that’s why we don’t have single-payer healthcare. The Dems kept trying to get the GOP on board, and it never worked, and only hampers the reforms’ effectiveness.

Well it’s not about you and your belief—and I’m not being snarky here—but it’s really about victims having access to resources and a legal system that follows through accusations thoroughly and promptly to bring cases either forward or dismissed (as in your friend’s case). Unfortunately, that doesn’t often happen.

I mean...I don’t think candidates’ and candidates’ spouses’ CONSENSUAL sex lives should play a part in an election, but like...Bill Clinton straight-up sexually assaulted some women back in his Arkansas days. I can’t just let that lie as part of his “sex life.”

Americans have such a sense of superiority for a country with a bad education system, bad healthcare system, bad welfare system, that puts more of it’s population in prison than any where else, that refuses to sign the UN declaration of rights of the child because it would stop them executing people for crimes…

To be honest, I’ve never been able to see where that stereotype comes from. Sure, some middle-class Brits can be very straight-laced, but I’ve never seen that much repression in the North, or South London, or Cardiff, etc.My husband is American and compared to his family my Vally’s born cousins and aunts are a 24-hour…

That’s the reaction of all decent folk, actually.

yes, ugh, i saw that report on gay men being accepted and wanted to scream. it’s also soooo tied up in weird gender norms that run counter to actual proof to the contrary (women and gay men can’t be terrorists?)

related note: i cannot help but think about orlando patterson’s discussion of social death and the ways in which the trans-atlantic slave trade contributed to a disruption of an african sense of self that relied on social units that included extended family and community members in ways relatively unknown in the west.…

Yessss. I remember the mosque arson. Thank you for adding further perspective.

i am really happy canada is being so welcoming, but the entire story keeps getting left out. after the paris attacks, they switched up their plan to take in ONLY women, children, and families, leaving single men out. once again, considering that none of the guys in the paris attacks were syrian but instead locally…

And damn the people at the end of this horrible garbage ideology and rhetoric who are hurt by this, or who are attacked by those supporting this shit if they cant just laugh and smile through it for a little but longer in order to convince a couple of morons to not vote for him and to extend your entertainment.

Thanks for the expansion, although it appears as a strange mix of ignorance and xenophobia. I’m from Northern Ireland, and while it is in many ways an awful place, one thing I can assure you is that its people do not aspire to be English. And I say that with affection and respect to my English friends. Did you mean…

But one can hope!

I know he’s a democrat. The disgusting thing (besides refusing to help or shelter innocent refugees of course) is next election they’ll alllll be talking about how kind, compassionate, and understanding they are. They’ll say they “care about everyone and they always listen to reason”. Except for when it's inconvenient…

I'm well aware. My point still stands. We're all used to hypocrisy from our politicians but the hypocrisy here is galling.

I thought republicans were the “Christian, moral responsibility, religious freedom” party? Well, no Christian would turn away innocent defenseless people, so they aren’t that. Syrian refugees are FLEEING FROM ISIS and had nothing to do with the attacks so republicans aren’t that either. These innocent people just…

Why is it such a shock for everyone on here that there are places outside of the Deep South that are racist? And when it’s discovered you drag the Deep South into it? I know this may come as a surprise but racism knows no borders.

I don’t understand why this story is so...problematic. The comments are weird as fuck. You cannot pretend to be someone else when obtaining consent. That's fraud. And having sex with someone under that ill begotten consent is rape. Why is everyone joking about it?

But guys, racism is going to die out with all the old people because young whites are so non-racist.