I don’t want to stop thinking about this, but I’m going to have to come up for air at some point.

+1 bloody sock

This. If not for the generosity of us “liberal elitists”, “Real ‘Merica” would be a third world backwater. Can you imagine a Deep South that wasn’t propped up by Yankee tax dollars?

Or a shithole petro-state, and #29, behind all those Cali cities you were trashing. https://wallethub.com/edu/cities-with-the-most-and-least-ethno-racial-and-linguistic-diversity/10264/

Haha! Good point. We libruls also score poorly on the Guns ‘n Freedum Index. Turns out the greatest liberty is the liberty to make the stupidest of decisions.

More than half. At least until 2018.

I know, I know. It came out in a moment of frustration. I have to imagine this is like being a parent and watching your kid fuck up, but not being able to get through to them. But shit, every reasonable metric would tell us that what liberal America does works, and “Real” America, not so much.

Ooh. I mean, you know it’s true, but to see it in an excellent graphic like that is stark.

Guessing her strategy for fixing the epidemic is to undercut supply by taking every pill she can get her talons on.

I’ve got a map for him and all of his dipshit supporters.

You’re gonna trust some commie Jew who hangs with prostitutes? Seems sketchy.

Because they love you and want to save you from yourselves by showing you the error of your ways. Or some such bullshit. I don’t know, I guess once you’ve decided that you’re going to base your worldview on a science-free, millennia-old mythology of talking snakes and bushes, immaculate conception and zombie prophets,…

I can respect that. I have family in active duty right now, and I just worry about them, knowing that their life or death hangs on the whim of a lunatic. That said, everything I listed above has been true under every administration for almost a century.

I’m not here to fight, I’m here to discuss ideas. Thanks for being civil. Hope to see you around these parts again.

Some smart executive could probably reengineer them.

At no point did I mention her gender. And I believe I’ve tried to respond to your friend here’s increasingly angry replies civilly. I’ll let you consult the thread to make up your own mind, though, if you have the time.

Cool.

And for the record, I did say she was right. I agree with her! I just don’t think she made a terribly clear case, just like (gasp!) I often think that Bernie is unconvincing, despite his obvious passion.

Huh. You must have missed my posts praising Elizabeth Warren. Like where I’ve said she’s our best hope in 2020. Like back in 2016, where I bemoaned our choices and wished that she was our candidate. Right here on Kinja. Probably even on the Slot! I am many things, but a sexist is not one of them.

It was a long thread. Read on, and consider perspectives you’ve obviously never encountered. Just because they make you uncomfortable doesn’t make them invalid.