You are aware the two are not mutually exclusive right? One can be both American and Puerto Rican... or did that not cross your mind? I may not be cool, but I am Boricua. That’s my culture. I was raised on adobo and rice and beans. I’m Puerto Rican. Does it mean I am not American? Of course not. I was also raised on…

“Most powerful card in the game? Psh. All it does is give you mana. I’ll trade it for a Force of Nature.” —15-year-old me in 1993.

Only spoiled, ignorant people really think that living in the US is in any real way equivalent to living in Russia. Putting a “check” next to each of the factors in your original post disregards the order of magnitude difference between the two countries in every single factor.

I have lived under an actual dictatorship—Franco. You have no idea what you are talking about.

Jason, please allow me to say here what I’ve been meaning to say on so many other articles:

This is the kind of case that should go before the US Supreme Court to rule once and for all whether civil forfeiture or this particular seizure is legal.

Becoming? It’s always been this way, we’re just more cognizant of it now.

Here’s something: support the reigning in of the mass proliferation of weapons in our country. No citizen needs an AR-15, a weapon designed solely to kill quickly and efficiently, as seen here and many other places. The facts prove that countries with fewer weapons have fewer such crimes. It is utter lunacy that in a…

I don’t think that all of them are “white” by American standards (by which I mean people solely of European ancestry). Most of them are, but I think that a few of them have a small amount of native ancestry but appear as and identify as white. Race in Brazil is perceived pretty differently than in the US, but that…

She is still a member of the church, I believe. She was married in the temple a few years ago. On r/exmormon, there’s speculation about the status of her testimony and if she’ll leave the church.

is she an ex-mormon, though?

different calculators give my size as anything from a 38B to a 34F

Large swathes of Queens do that and it’s annoying as fuck. You think you can easily walk from 66th Street to 68th Street, but that’s like 8 blocks.