Crowd funding isn’t sufficient for Hollywood style budgets. It did get Veronica Mars made, though.

Let’s not kid ourselves. The people celebrating may be using the false narrative because it gives them a slim justification for their bigotry, but they don’t care whether or not it’s true. 

Washington Post keeps a running database, although it’s not set up to search by age (or if it is, I don’t know how to do it). Police do kill white people—IIRC, in terms of total numbers, white people are the largest demographic killed by police. But it’s incredibly disproportionate to population, so on a per person…

I know about that case and the ruling, and it makes me livid every time I read references to it. While yes, I understand that there are cases where it can make sense to say that police are under no general duty to provide services to any individual citizen (i.e. you can’t call a police officer because you want a…

This is why more lawsuits need to be filed. The ones that have trickled in against Infowars are a good start.

You know, it’s silly to debate because what we’ve seen is that the evangelicals will spin anything as they need to justify their vote. They have no true values beyond tribal loyalty and oppression of the outsider. Ivanka and Jared are both problematic votes, but if Trump voters thought Ivanka or Jared would get them…

I don’t buy it. They’d run Jared first. The Trump base is sexist. If Ivanka comes to power, it will be as part of a full-fledged dictator dynasty. Trump squeaked into office through a quirk of geography and a lot of external factors aligning in his favor. If democracy is preserved in the country, I don’t think he’ll…

I don’t think we ever hoped she was going to save us from grifting. It’s more we hope that she’ll help counterbalance Pence and save women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights. I actually still have some hope there. Per what I read, the Johnson Amendment executive order didn’t touch LGBTQ+ issues at all and rumor had the…

Even if a person genuinely believes the economic revisionist history, it was still TREASON. Unquestionable, textbook definition treason. They seceded from the country! Yet they’ll claim patriotism and the need to celebrate Southern treason in the same breath.

Right. Like I don’t care that she has 3 different children by 2 different men, with 2 of them out of wedlock. But I do care that she was clearly grifting by accepting money to lecture about abstinence that she wasn’t practicing, and that she feels like it’s out of bounds to point out her hypocrisy.

The Palins are a…

Really excellent point!

Especially because we know factually that there are Congressional Dems who have experienced police brutality.

Passengers have to have IDs to use the app, so banning passengers is totally feasible. I don’t think it would be a great idea to do based on a single incident if there’s no way to review, but having dashboard cams and a review process all seem feasible. Now I wonder why they don’t implement that.

Also, I would hope…

I didn’t understand it either until I finally started using Lyft. It really is a much better experience. Cab companies need to hire a development team to develop equivalent apps to have any chance at competing. It sucks, but there really is a quality improvement.

What we really need is better labor laws to regulate…

So lovely when a Democratic government decides that laws, policies, and procedures are just silly little things. And by lovely, I mean absolutely horrifying.

A lot of anti-vaxxers do not understand how vulnerable herd immunity is. We know that Wakefield deliberately spreads misinformation. He is a fraud and a conman. I am not going to call Somali immigrants shitty parents for falling for Wakefield’s lies and scams when they have the explanation of extreme culture change…

I did not intend to imply that literally the only reason people may object to TPP was because Hillary Clinton was involved in the Obama administration’s negotiations. What I intended to imply was twofold: first that the passion with which people spoke against TPP during the 2016 election did not reflect the passion…

I’ve been trying to get my spouse on board with preparing to exit for ages. I think things are going to get very bad, very fast. If it were just the two of us, I’d be okay with ending up in jail or worse to fight for civil liberties. But I have a young child.

It’s only May. Yes, checks and balances are holding okay (unless you’re an immigrant, lawful or otherwise), but the Trump administration has just begun to stack courts. There are rumors Kennedy may step down. Bader Ginsburg’s health is a permanent unknown.

It is very hard to believe that we can feel confident holding…

I think influence can be a tricky thing because denouncing your relative is often a scorched earth thing. You will lose all ability to directly effect policy or change. I can see a hypothetical where it is better for the relative to stay in favor and use that influence to effect change. However, in the reality of…

IMHO, that’s completely on those leftists. Because if the combination of Hillary’s actual policies from the moment she started campaigning and the importance of keeping Trump out of the White House wasn’t good enough for them, that is completely on THEM for being a-holes.

Personally, I don’t think it would have.…