because he was concerned ICE agents could target them and detain the children

This would be a much more compelling argument if it didn’t always come from the side that believes black people belong in prison and all workplace safety and anti-discrimination protections should be eliminated along with the minimum wage.

It’s a common argument, but I don’t know that it’s necessarily accurate. I think people underestimate how much of the difference between the illegally-low wage and the market wage goes into the owner’s pocket and not into lowering the price of the product.

So your belief is that people who have practiced law for years and possibly decades are generally too stupid to understand that this was about horrifyingly lenient sentences for unrepentant sex offenders?

I heard this slippery slope bullshit before the recall, too. Judges have more options than just “mass incarceration of people of color” and “let sex offenders off with no consequences”.

The GOP doesn’t give sociopathic shitheels slaps on the wrist. They give them jobs as their chiefs of staff.

American trade unionism excluded minorities. The syndicalists and IWW refused to do so.

99 times out of 100 I will take the left position on hate speech, and in these cases I would support removing the racist forum posts and maybe some of the mods that overtly or not-particularly-covertly call for bringing the game IRL. But for game content? There’s reasons to play an alt-history other than wish…

The immediacy test is garbage. The fact that speech is likely to cause mass loss of life next week instead of today should not be a pass.

trying to make a big splash, instill fear in the business community...and make the headlines

Sort of vaguely semi-agree. I think there are other steps that could be taken, especially when there are mitigating factors such as a bunch of dependent children, but I’m not gonna argue for giving people unlimited re-dos on DUI. The real tragedy is ICE thinking all South and Central Americans are sub-human so getting…

Like any other psychopath, he knows the words “unfortunate” and “sad” and when to say them, but isn’t capable of connecting with the concepts.

When I was on [well-known SSRI] I was definitely a zombie. I would literally space out and just fall down, kind of like falling asleep standing up. Just anecdotally, I know a lot of people with similar stories. Usually, as in my case, it turns out that it just wasn’t the right med for them and they found something…

Unfortunately, yes. Those Muslims Tommy whatshisname tried to get off the hook by tainting the jury look like they’re probably guilty.

I hear President* Trump has already pardoned him for whatever he does next.

We don’t.

His views are not particularly different from those of American evangelical Christians. They may know better than to say they’re OK with pedophilia, but as we saw with Josh Duggar, they certainly behave like they are.

The last time I moved, I threw out the unopened moving box full of pens and notebooks that I had moved without unpacking from the previous place...and the place before that...possibly the place before that.

This has been known literally forever. In Norse mythology, Ragnarok happens because Odin is too good to punish Loki for all the bad shit he does and lets him live. Loki repays him by ending existence.

Most of the establishment “left” doesn’t give a crap either. They just need to look like they’re the adults in the room so nobody questions the bribes they’re taking from the banks and Silicon Valley.