I want universal healthcare too, but your source says that 33% of the public supports single payer, not “a majority”. 60% say that it’s the government’s responsibility to make sure that everyone has healthcare, but we all know that’s not necessarily the same thing. This is not going to be easy, and I wouldn’t exactly…

Jesus, thank you. I keep seeing these articles on here with vague hints about unspecified “allegations” from unnamed people... no one will even say what the fuck was actually supposed to have happened. To compare this to Cosby at this point is absurd, since it seems that not one actual accuser can be found or brought…

I’m loathe to defend Sessions here, but this is not exactly a new idea for the US government. They polygraph FBI agents and intelligence officers all the time, and they do it repeatedly throughout a person’s career. They also like to ask questions like “have you ever committed a felony?” which is broader than what…

They’re really not, which is my biggest problem with this site and its sister properties right now. Issues of race are complicated, with many shades of gray and many different perspectives about what constitutes acceptable behavior. The conversation around appropriation and representation in the media is particularly…

I’ve been there plenty, but I don’t comment. I’m Latino, not black, so something tells me I wouldn’t be too welcome in their community. I’ve already been called a whitewashed piece of shit / coconut / fake sock-puppet by a few prominent Root commenters on other sites, mostly for continuing to express my view that…

This is such a smug, fucked up attitude that you have, and a great way to make everyone who’s not an extreme left-wing race activist hate us (and yes, that includes a lot of minorities). Diversity is not a zero-sum game. Either we want big tentpole movies like this to look like real life and include people of all…

I give it six months til Littlefingers has him poisoned.

Some people brag about never having heard Despacito, but that’s dumb as fuck. It’s a great song, if a little corny at times. The Justin Bieber version, though? I’ve never heard it in full, and I don’t intend to ever do so. I can’t rag on it too hard because the original version wouldn’t be nearly as popular as it is…

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I hope so too. We have no contact now, so I don’t know what’s going on with him. But he was a really resourceful guy. I hope he was able to go to school for engineering somewhere like he wanted, because anything else would be a terrible waste of a singular talent.

A similar thing happened to a friend of mine from high school. He found out his senior year that he and his parents were undocumented. He was one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, with a full-ride scholarship to an Ivy League school and acceptance letters from several others when he found out. Except in his case,…

“I wrote in Bernie last November and now I’m desperately trying to justify my decision! Hey, why is everyone turning away? Don’t you know that Clinton is literally the devil? Excuse me? RUDE!”

Someone will leak the report if they try to bury it. This is not going away, no matter how much the GOP may want it to. We will see it, one way or another. The Republicans know that, and I don’t think even they would be stupid enough to try to keep it from the public. And if Trump tries to shut down the investigation…

Look, at some point, Mueller is going to release a report. The investigation seems to accelerate by the day, and if I had to guess, we will see that report by the end of the year. The report will state whether Mueller believes any crimes were committed, who committed them, and whether Trump was involved. If there’s no …

I agree that Pence probably has no real respect for Trump. If he were to pardon Trump, it would be due to political pressure from the RNC, which would doubtless be aware that a failure to issue such a pardon might permanently turn Trump’s base against them. I think Pence is a party hack above all else, which is why he…

You keep saying that with such conviction, and I want to believe you. I think I’ve asked you this before, but have you considered the fact that Pence is 100% going to pardon him if he gets kicked out of office? Yes, even if Pence goes down too, he’ll pardon Trump before he goes. Hell, if Pence is also impeached, that…

There is nothing about... living in america half your life that makes you an american.

YEP. What gives, Rafi? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you promoted it to expose the commenter’s idiocy... but c’mon, man. The whole point of the star system is to weed out the worst trolls and keep the discussion from turning into the comment section of a Yahoo News article.

So here is a troll comment with one star... and it’s in the “Staff” section. I can’t keep track of how Kinja works anymore, but wouldn’t that seem to indicate that Rafi Schwartz or another staff member or mod starred this comment? I actually see this all the time around here, too, with comments that are obviously…

Which only matters if you believe the Bible was handed down intact by God himself and that every single book within actually belongs in the canon. You have to ignore the extremely clear and well-documented role of human gatekeepers in deciding what their holy book would include. I’m not a Christian anymore, but when I…