Still closer to 25%, and overwhelmingly people who work for a living and have no wealth to expropriate anyway.

It’s actually just 12.1% of Americans who make over $100,000.

I think you’ve oversimplified well beyond the point of making sense here. “Fiscal Liberal vs. Fiscal Conservative” refers to a very specific debate over countercyclical spending from the ‘90s and early ‘00s that doesn’t really reflect any considered ideology, least of all liberalism or conservatism.

I actually love paying taxes. It’s an investment that I get huge returns on, and if intelligent, progressive people are in power, I see those returns in a matter of months, not years. Taxes are one of my only large expenses that actually advances my quality of life, ever since I moved out of that place with the…

Keynes thought we’d be down to 15 hour weeks by now. And if workers and unions weren’t hobbled in the world’s two biggest economies, we totally could!

Waitaminute, that’s not how taxes work, and “class contetentiousness” is a a Falangist conspiracy word... WHY I’M BEGINNING TO SUSPECT... ! Are you now or have you ever been a member of the GOP?

You didn’t think the characters mirrored each other? That was almost heavy-handedly the entire plot. That was the story for which the female antagonist was merely a vehicle.

Geesus. What “narrative?” Also, do you, like, not know what hospitals are?

Likewise, plenty of people use opioids without ever going anywhere near a needle. Whether your vices catch up with you is a matter of money and luck. This woman had neither. That isn’t her fault.

I take it you’ve never met a smoker OR a junkie, then. Tumors and needles sneak up on people with habits that were, at one point, totally manageable. We don’t talk about how people in car crashes CHOSE to drive, but they definitely did. Do they not deserve help? Should they be left in the mangled wrecks to die as a…

He didn’t say, and to me it didn’t super sound like he cares. The only issue is how it affects HIM.

 She’s already clean. It’s been made clear her child will never be returned. This is some war criminal shit

“Doesn’t deserve?”

Kindbud4u.wordpress.com! A scholarly source of there ever was one.

Right, you did say that, but it wasn’t factual. The history of the word is not what you assumed it was. That’s a pretty big part of what I’m saying here.

So wait, which is it? A plural, or an adjective?

The article gets wrong that they used it themselves.

It was introduced into the English lexicon by people deliberately trying to make our language more racist

Yeah but it loooooks cooooooool and everyone can toooootally tell but the evidence is, like, already gone so you’re good

Contact highs are a culturally- specific placebo, so, no?