Anyone who Oxycondones this bullshit is Dilaudid

No. You do this when the alternative is everybody dying, like we did when we entered into WWII. It makes perfect sense that if you underplay the importance of the goal, you’re gonna underestimate the scope of the moves that will need to be made to achieve it.

Well, I’ll have to disagree. A showstopper is a showstopper is a showstopper. If you are having a good understanding of what this means, it’s crucial to remove showstoppers ignorer to make any progress at all.  The filibuster is a gatekeeping device, and, as such, needs to be removed if systems are to change and…

Still waiting to see what the response to that very real problem is.

Good points; I hadn’t thought about it in that detail!

It’s always “for now.”  That’s the nature of the court and the law, really.  Like, we try to paint relief with darkness all of the damn time?

#2 is really the key thing. A lot of stupid shitty things you do as a kid, even a teenager, can be forgiven if you, y’know, LEARN better, and do better. It’s why I have no time for these asshats who are still clearly being shitty racist fuckwits today. They’re not embarrassed by what they did, they’re embarrassed it…

Fun follow-up: can you name someone who owns two successful franchises in different sports? Because right now the Wizards and Pelicans are making headlines because their owners only give a shit about their non-basketball team. Not a rhetorical question: I’m genuinely curious and open to the possibility that one exists.

I’m genuinely confused as to why Splinter hasn’t written anything about the fact that the Supreme Court has spent the week considering killing Roe v Wade. The decision on the stay in June Medical v. Gee is probably going to come down tonight, and the four most conservative justices have clearly spent the week lobbying…

I’m not sure how much good it does to reflexively dismiss any criticism without confronting it. Is anyone on Splinter going to actually do an analysis of this legislation?

“If you see something say something” isn’t well intentioned advice. It was created in the Post-9/11 Bush dystopia of illegal prisons, warrantless wiretapping and Total Information Awareness (a scapped program to have mail carriers, meter readers, handymen etc. all snoop on the contents of people’s homes and report to…

Somebody who pushed back hard at the Kavanaugh hearings. Just because you want a rapist on the Supreme Court, doesn’t mean the rest of us do. Maybe open a newspaper every once in a while.

And by the standard of enthusiastic consent, if your partner isn’t going for it without you asking, they probably aren’t going to be that enthusiastic about it even if you did ask.

That was a bad-ass interjection.  Nice work, RI. 

that’s some good Kinja sir!

This will be my last reply, as I’m pretty sure you’re being deliberately obtuse for...reasons, I guess. Likely in service to “winning” an argument, as if such arguments can actually be “won” (though if there are prizes, do point me in the direction of the prize booth).

You know, all three of these dudes could have avoided this controversy by not being pieces of shit to begin with. Just saying.

Republicans came up with a plot that relied on the guy third in line for the Governorship to give an unprompted confession to wearing blackface?

so you’re one of the rich kids, I’m guessing, otherwise you wouldn’t be bending over so hard to receive your dicking