But she’s not saying it’s less than half - she’s leaving it up to interpretation, and pretty much everyone on the left would likely say it’s more than half.

She could’ve avoided the whole thing by simply adding ‘some of them, I assume, are good people’ at the end of her original speech.

“I regret saying ‘half’—that was wrong,” Clinton said.

It might but since they’d be in prison anyways that wouldn’t change anything much for the authorities.

Part of the root cause is that setting aside. Real prison reform isn’t possible until we get a significant number of people to agree that the worst criminals among us still deserve to be treated with a minimum of decency while incarcerated.

gender dysphoria isn’t an act or a choice, dippy-doo. it’s not like she’s asking for an hour to play in a poppy field.

It’s true that this has a lot of meaning and history in the US, and it’s happened over and over — more times than we’ll ever know. But it’s irrelevant to this particular case.

My evil pit bull lived twelve years. RIP Muscle-Butt 2000.

Fun Bond Fact. David Niven was Ian Fleming’s pick, who turned it down.

Oh, say can you see

Fuuuuuuuuck that. Yeah, a lot of people have died in foreign wars at the behest of this country, but none of those wars had to do with your “freedom.” They had to do with global politics and hegemony. The Swiss share all the “freedoms” that you do, without all the flag-humping jingoism.

This is such a strange, uniquely American idea. It’s not The Military Anthem. It’s not The Troops Anthem. It’s the National Anthem. It’s for all of the people. It is not profession-specific.

The national anthem is not a military hymn. It might be for you. But that’s not what it’s about for everyone. And the US military hasn’t always been the good guys.

She has the right to wave the rainbow flag because public opinion grew less homophobic, and because of SCOTUS and changes in the law at the city & state level, not because of soldiers.

The troops do not own the anthem.

I’m pretty sure the people who died for our freedoms didn’t do it so that this country would become a place where you have to show dogmatic loyalty to symbols as if we lived in a dictatorship, saluting “Dear Leader” and bowing down lest we be marked a traitor. Let’s save that forced patriotic bullshit for North Korea.

When I stand for the anthem I start mentally checking off the various ballpark foods I want to eat that day.

We also have the freedom to kneel if we want to when we hear the anthem. Or turn our backs. Or dance a jig. Those people died for her freedom to do that too.

I think it’s wonderfully optimistic that you think he’ll feel shame over this.

As long as the protestors don’t resort to violent action or harass his family and friends, I think this is an appropriate form of expressing anger about an obvious injustice. In lieu of a prison sentence, Turner will have to endure this humiliating protest and live with the shame forever, even if the actual…