“In the meantime, though, the study concludes that offering choices is still a good way for toddlers to practice communication skills...”

And how did you get out of the mine, anyhow?!  They used to have better security when I was a sprat!

“Do you want the blue cup or the red cup?”

I think it would be better if people stopped looking so hard for biological connections, and instead made those connections with the people they have. If you find out that your father couldn’t possibly be your father, so your aunt isn’t your aunt, and that means you can’t talk to your aunt about things, that’s a sad…

So much this.

Bears repeating.

This is why you unionize. Except we won’t fucking do it because as Americans we’re apparently broken at such a fundamental level we think we deserve this treatment to get ahead. And who told you that...?

Y'all motherfuckers need unions

I want to agree with you on this, but I think that the vast majority of his flock would still turn on a dime if it came to that and line right the fuck up behind him.  At this point they no longer get the benefit of the doubt from me on any question whatsoever.

Inevitable sure (a friend’s AIM profile: “Want to go grab a pizza before the war?”), but it was way worse than this. Right now, not going to war is at least considered a respectable position in the mainstream. Before Iraq, it felt the like the mainstream sentiment was that if you didn’t want to go war you were a naive…

People keep arguing with me about this but I stand by it - I think another war will be unpopular with his base. Now, do I think that they would abandon him over it? No. But I think he is weighing that in. The wars we are already in are unwinnable and unpopular, and a huge percentage of military personnel and families…

Yeah, I guess the proximity to 9/11 changed the tone back then.

Nah actually there was bloodlust on a few more fronts. 

I’m much more interested in what about Iran makes Trump so twitchy.

Is this what the build up to the Iraq War felt like?  It’s all so dumb, yet it feels inevitable.

It absolutely does, that’s why I made sure to mention civilian casualties in the OP. The US media goes out of it’s way to not mention “collateral damage” but the figures are out there and they’re frightening. With the push button wars we can wage, it’s just too easy to write off the incidentals when we want to bomb an…

That’s the entire agenda of Tr_mp and everyone defending these detention centers: Warp the narrative by turning a massive act of hateful, race-based imprisonment into a semantics debate that the public can get tangled up in while the detainees sit there wasting away. Get our focus aimed at each-other, instead of at…

That’s what I don’t understand about this. It’s like comparing a convicted serial killer to Satan, and suddenly having a massive rush of people climbing over each other to shout “HE’S NOT REALLY SATAN!”

Does it really fucking matter if they are called ‘concentration camps’ or ‘detention centers’ or ‘funball zones’ when…

This exactly. This is unfortunately an old argument, and as much I wish everyone would just acknowledge US concentration camps, I’m not at all surprised at the denial.

America has always called our concentration camps “internment camps” pretending they’re something different because they weren’t run by Nazi Germany,…

There are good people on both sides! It’s uncivil to suggest that caging humans is racists and a human rights violation! Can’t we compromise? You get to keep locking up kids and I can keep twisting in knots about it, quietly.