This all does seem like a lot of words and a lot of agonizing over nothing.

TO BE FAIR this happens in lots of places adjacent to and east of the Mississippi River. I grew up in NJ and folks in my family and social circle would immediately ask you what parish you belonged to. Or you will tell them the town you are from and they’ll say “oh St. Margaret’s?” It’s not as widespread as it used to…

The second part is maybe easier to fix than the first. People have to have a clearer understanding of their rights, and they have to use them.

I’m pretty sure it’s “gee-len”? To be fair I only barely know one gee-len and have never met a jis-len but maybe they’re out there.

I live near a couple government buildings in my city, and some of the near-daily protests here have marched past my house.

They’ll net at least $50K, it’s plenty of money.

At this point, in this cultural moment, if you see a black person doing anything that is not over-the-top-obviously criminal, you should probably just keep walking. If you really feel the need to alert authorities about something, you should probably do it without confronting the person. If you see people whip out…

Possibly not, especially if they fired him for cause and didn’t violate his contract. 

You mean, It’s going to be a long time before progressives start winning the midwest again  

A lot of saints went hundreds of years before they get formally canonized. Like, “miracles” would be recorded many many decades after someone died.

LOL yeah that makes sense the minute somebody is actually trying to break into your house and not one single minute earlier

The only interesting thing about that map is the fact that West Virginia and Georgia have actually voted for a democrat in a presidential election in living memory

Well if the deck gets stacked enough against the court politically and we end up with a serious attempt to have 11 justices, political capital would have helped a lot to head off that outcome

Yes it does.

Is this the best place to mention that we should be, like, REALLY relieved they didn’t accidentally kill one of the protesters? They clearly don’t even know how to hold those guns 

I pointed this out once in a conversation about a Mexican person who is very wealthy and appears, for all intents and purposes, to be of entirely Spanish descent. The person I was talking to had never stopped to consider that a lot of Mexican people have European lineage. She thought they were just all native…

Yeah I kind of look forward to seeing him fuck up in a variety of asshole 24-year-old fuck-up ways. Maybe he will be authentically humbled? Is it absurd to even imagine that?

thousands millions of customers in dozens tens of thousands of restaurants

As another commenter noted elsewhere, its TOTES normal for a single alcoholic guy in his mid 20s to informally adopt a young boy from another country and then keep their relationship hidden from evidently the entire world, up to and including posing him as an intern or an assistant, for a decade.   

Everybody’s best friend Mitch McConnell did not call Black people illiterate.