Collins just wants plausible deniability so she can vote for him. Kavanaugh is a far right true believer, and the fact that he has met all questions about civil rights and executive power with non-answers and evasion shows that he’s a very dangerous appointee. They’re also often asking him the wrong questions. But his…

The magic in Project Runway is really Heidi and Tim, and I’m sure they know it. It’s kind of felt for the last couple of years like all the light is going out of Project Runway (to be fair, it’s been on a long time), so it’ll be interesting to see how they make this one work. I feel like I was one of the few people…

This frustrates me so much. Especially when they say that economic issues are more important than abortion.

Abortion IS an economic issue, Sherlock! What do you think happens to a woman’s life when she is forced to carry a baby to term? 

I’m not worried about him helping to overturn Roe so much as I am worried about him voting to establish fetal personhood (or zygote personhood, for that matter), and establishing the rights of a zygote or fetus over that of the woman whose body that zygote or fetus is inside.

That is, after all, the brass ring that…

Your mom is right. While it’s true that one single vote rarely matters, we have to remember that it’s collective action that makes a difference. There’s been a sustained effort to break movements on the left by convincing people that “as long as I’ve got mine, it doesn’t matter what happens to anybody else, everyone…

This is what happens when people who say they care about these things both run for office and also actually show up to vote. Onward to November, when I really hope people understand that voting is really fucking important.

Seriously, people need to fucking vote in the midterms and put some fucking checks on these assholes wherever we can. It’s ridiculous. I really hope that these assholes get the boot in two years, but who fucking knows anymore. 

There are over 13 million registered voters in Florida, and 3 million people cast votes in the election yesterday, by various methods. That’s 23%. It’s great if that was a significant increase, but it’s still objectively abysmally low voter turnout. There’s more registered Democrats than Republicans, and a ton of…

You’re just strengthening my point, though. The point is precisely that turnout is low, particularly in midterm elections. The fact that it has historically been low is the problem. 

Looking at voter turnout in Florida amongst Dems and GOPers, once again Dems aren’t showing up to vote in as big a numbers as Repubs are. Like, what is it going to take to get people to actually show up? Do the millennials of Florida really want the retirement community dictating who represents them? It just boggles…

If people in the 18-35 age bracket actually get off their asses and vote, O’Rourke can defeat Cruz. The question is whether they will indeed actually show up. Fort Worth, for example, has ridiculously low voter turnout, like single digit turnout. If people who normally stay home actually show up and VOTE, then the…

I get that you’re arguing just to argue, but it’s really annoying (ha ha, no but really, but i’m saying this with a jokey tone, but yeah, it kind of is also), and would be more fun if we were doing this in person. We’re not talking about outlawing abortions after 8 months. We’re talking about the specific scenario of…

But the point of that argument here, of course, is that we don’t make Person A go through all of that, even for a full person. It would be cruel and unusual punishment, which is unconstitutional.

The problem, as you say, is that a fetus is not a person, yes. But also, a pregnant woman isn’t a criminal and hasn’t done…

Heh! My high school didn’t have a debate team, so I make up for it with reasonable discourse on the internet. Or something.

Three things about this analogy, which also isn’t great! Ha!

1) This is not difficult at all. Yes, absolutely, Person A should be able to back out at any time. It is absolutely unethical to force them to have the surgery if they change their mind.
2) Person A actually goes into surgery first to have their kidney…

Women do not have to register for selective service (yet), but women can be drafted. But yeah, I’m firmly against the draft, and I think prisoners should be paid at least minimum wage for their labor.

I find numerous problems with all of your arguments, but I have to deal with a toddler and my time is short.

A woman being forced to use her body for gestation is being forced to give her uterus and risk her life to carry a pregnancy to term. Women’s brain mass changes, they lose blood (criminals or suspected…

Point of order: we do have the legal mechanism for a draft, and men and women are both included now. It just isn’t active at the moment.

Also, I’m against the draft, and when women were included a couple years ago, I was against that as well, because I’m against all forms of the draft.

First of all, we’re not talking about having sex. We’re talking about terminating pregnancy. We’re starting with the premise that a woman is pregnant. It frankly doesn’t matter what comes before that. Your assumption that she made a choice at all is problematic to begin with. She may or may not have made the choice to…

Yeah, definitely call this doctor on their b.s. well ahead of time. I’d ask them to medically justify the annual pelvic exam, given that current standards suggest that it’s unnecessary to have additional exams just for birth control. If they still insist that it has to be done because of protocol or whatever bullshit,…