People think running a country is like running their household.

Earmarks were banned in 2010. Bringing up the “Bridge to Nowhere” shows you’re either ignorant of that or being dishonest.

Your comment illustrates why investing in education should be a top priority. Hopefully the next time a bridge collapses in the US you’ll be driving over it.

The core of Democratic monetary policy is still center to center-right, leftover from the “Third Way” Clinton era re-calibration, so I’m not surprised they’re making this argument. The gap between the now nearly extinct moderate Republicans and most Democrats on this stuff was never large, it was more a matter of if…

“We must cherish and embrace our miners, treating them as equals who know exactly what they are doing.”

I always did wonder why he prefaced it with “dirty,” “filthy,” or “sexy.”

We elected a president after a tape surfacing of him bragging about sexually assaulting women.

While campaigning, Moore made many references to how much he loved miners, praise now seen in a completely different light.

Oh my god this slippery slope is fucking incredible.

Can we talk about the meta issue that is happening in these comments? Because it took yall about 10 seconds to completely shift the dialogue away from women and the enormous amounts of women being injured or killed. This is part of the problem and why women continue to be killed because we can’t even sit and focus on…

No actually that wasn’t the meaning until the ill-advised decision in the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller case 

That’s a gross mischaracterization of China.

having a kidney taken instead of being given a liver should have killed him. smoking a half pound of meth should have killed him. a dozen other things should have killed him, but nothing can kill Frank and I’m glad he’s still around.

No article on private prisons is complete without a mention of lock up quotas. Or an agreement to for the state to make sure the prison is so full, or pay the prison money for not stocking it with slaves as agreed upon.

Halfway houses reduce recidivism rates. They’re counterproductive to private prison corporations, and private prison corporations are generous donors to the Republican Party, whose policies in turn ensure a steady and returning stream of “customers” (inmates).

I mean, especially for the sort of men who feel entitled to tell women what to do, and especially when those men are white, the perception of Black masculinity as inherently sexually threatening to white men (because of its power to destroy their property, white womanhood) is too deeply-rooted to ignore.

New Wave was such a stupid movement, just stylistically. Loved Eleven/ Jane trying it out and Hopper mustering the good dad willpower to say (probably not entirely truthfully) that he didn’t hate it.

It’s not clear whether Billy told Max not to hang around with “those kind of people” because Lucas is black or a because he’s a dork. I’m leaning toward the former, though.

Can we talk about how 11's response to the awful McPunk fashion was to go completely and utterly New Wave? And how that single handedly saved the entire season for me?

Forced or coerced sterilization is not just abhorrent, it’s considered a Crime Against Humanity by the International Criminal Court Statute. Which, interestingly enough, the US signed and then almost immediately withdrew from.