By the standards of politics in the 1980s, he was an absolute idiot. The Tea Party movement etc. has lowered that bar significantly, and for today he’s probably just average intelligence level for high level Republican politicians. Probably above average, actually. But he was shockingly stupid in that era. His time…

Think they meant the prospective Sec of Ed, Betsy DeVos. Her brother is Erik Prince, owner of Blackwater.

I was referring to the next Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.

Right, and conversely, people don’t have to be cute or look normal in order to deserve human rights, either.

Who is Dan Quayle? Not Jack Kennedy, from what I’ve heard.

I’m sure he is the most Quaylified candidate for one of the POSOTUS’s cabinet positions.

I could not agree more. I absolutely don’t want to play oppression olympics, but in terms of how “acceptable” it is to openly attack a group, women are very near the top. Once you realize what misogyny and sexism are, you see how it’s built into so many things. How it’s “just jokes” or “just how things are” or “hey,…

I mean, 6 weeks isn’t nothing. I imagine they hear this stuff about heartbeats and fingers and toes, and they think it’s basically a tiny baby at that point, rather than a blob that’s starting to coalesce into a vaguely baby-like shape.

Yeah, I have seen a seven-week embryo on an ultrasound, and it looked - as an acquaintance once said - “like a teddy bear with a Christmas light for a heart.” It was pretty amazing (and it’s now my 9-year-old!) but it was by no means recognizable as a human baby at that point. Just this little thing with stumpy limbs…

Millennials are less racist, homophobic, and xenophobic than their boomer counterparts, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy with the system either. Sanders also represented a populist candidate, but on the other end of the spectrum from Trump and received more millennial votes in the primary than Clinton and Trump…

Millennials... didn’t vote for him, though.

Perhaps that’s because democracy as Americans know it has proven... Kinda shitty?

Or you’re so poor getting a similar job in a foreign country presents little difficulty.

It is a very privileged position to be able to take, but as someone who is seriously pursuing ways to leave the country, it’s not because I *want* to at all. I am not safe here anymore. My family is not safe here anymore. My daughter, who is on the cusp of puberty, is not safe here anymore.

It’s amasing the…

Thank you! I just posted about the privilege of staying in the US.

A lot of people don’t have the privilege of remaining where they have always lived and worked if they believe their lives are at risk.

Some people mean it. If they have dual citizenship, if they have family in another country, if they can get a job in another country, if their marriage might be invalidated, or they might be put on a registry, or they are able to move to someplace that can actually provide them with healthcare, some people may move.

I honestly am worried about being put on some kind of a list along with my relatives who live in the US. Yeah I have a TON of privilege because if it came down to it, I could leave if staying meant registering and possibly getting “relocated” against my will. I don’t blame any of my fellow Muslim Americans who don’t…

if you can’t figure out how to leave, that’s just a lack of imagination. it’s not terribly expensive, as long as you’re intelligent enough about it.

I can leave and its not privilege just marriage.