Yea. Also the idea that Brooklyn, one of the most diverse places in our country (ethnically, racially, religiously, etc.) is somehow the bubble in comparison to small towns in the middle of nowhere where everyone looks, thinks, and prays the same blows my mind. Don’t buy that shit, from a born and bred Brooklynite.

I’m in IT. The only way his shit shows up on your computer is if he uses it or you guys share a logo for something.

Wow. I may be a grey burner account, but I’m floored that this discussion has gone so far without someone bringing up the similarities to how Hillary got skewered by the press for not dumping Clinton.

How many of these same commentators took the position that Hillary was not complicit in Bill Clinton’s history of…

Exactly! I have no idea what this dude thinks the “far left” is. Bernie Sanders was the furthest left the party has dared in easily 2 generations and look how welcomed he was by the rank & file.

Maybe this will help! *cackles*

You need to spend more time in Texas. Believe me, anti-choice laws are quite specifically aimed at SOME women, and not the wealthy, white ones who pretty reliably vote for the assholes who enact such laws. The OP is dead accurate that she’s not the demographic the governor and legislature was aiming for; she’s also…

And the only time I ever cried about it was when a family member let everyone know that he thought women who got abortions deserved to burn in hell.

I’m not quite sure how to feel about the fact you point out that you feel like you’re not in the “target demographic” because you’re wealthy and white. Like, the target demographic is women. Though, yes for sure, a certain segment of that demographic may feel the burden more due to income or race and how that lines…

Yes. The GOP is so very concerned with mental health. That’s why they are determined to reduce the rates of PTSD caused by gun violence by passing gun control legislation and providing free or low-cost counseling services for those with mental illnesses.

I had to block someone on my uncle’s other side because of that, and because he followed me all over fb to bitch and whine that I was making him act less Christian. I don’t know the asshole and we live 1000s of miles apart and he’s a grown ass man.

No need to apologize for speaking your mind. My heart goes out to you and your husband.  

I am so fucking sick of these religious right-wing fucknuggets who claim to be fucking persecuted from the safety of their own living rooms, basement dwellings or toilets.

My initial thoughts on this story were, yeah, that firing civil servants for political reasons is very difficult and illegal. There are job protections in place for them for just that reason. But the quote in this article made me realize.... that’s not true for contractors. They have no protections, and make up a…

To make Mythopoetic Stew:

The email “scandal” was so so frustrating because so few people actually understand how email works or how classification works. No one seems to point out the fact that the State.gov email system is UNCLASSIFIED. You don’t send any classified material over the public Internet (that’s was SIPRnet is for). What reason…

From a game theory perspective it may be better to sit back and let him implode. As the saying goes,” just because you shot jesse james don’t make you jesse james.”

After the last year or so, I’m way more defensive of Hillary Clinton than I am about my own mom. Like, if someone said something shitty about my mom, I’d be like “lol what the fuck is your problem, my mom’s the best” but if someone says something shitty about Hillary, I’m like “YOU WANNA FUCKIN’ GO, ASSHOLE?”

He was one of the guys that looked at the Ark of the Covenant, wasn’t he?