I more or less said this above, but the ghost of Eugene Debs could get elected to President for two terms, and Lenin and Marx leading the House and Senate, and we’d still see a version of capitalism that’s a lot closer to what we currently have than outright socialism

But to extend your argument to an extreme, advocating for any kind of minimum wage is an implicit support of capitalism, since it’s not an outright dismantling of the system. Around the FAR more progressive parts (where I have many friends), there’s a general confusion that “capitalism” = unregulated, laissez-faire…

You hit the nail on the head! In 2016 and beyond, I have listened to Sanders, and waited for him to demonstrate that he has an in depth understanding of these issues. But all he does is repeat the same simple talking points over and over and over again. It’s not that those talking points are bad. But I feel like he…

and understands the system well enough to figure out how to change it.

It’s amazing that his positions galvanized a new generation of activism and have pushed the Democratic field to the left. He is demanding many things that we sorely need. I also agree that responsible adults must compartmentalize to some degree when it comes to political candidates - you won’t like EVERYTHING about…

OK I actually did LOL for this.  Fuckin sneaky ass frat boys.  Well budgeted, fellas. 

This! Exactly! It’s literally the opposite. The only way to improve “body confidence” is by separating your confidence and self-worth from arbitrary goals for your figure to conform to. And the best way to “improve your health” is DEFINITELY to eat real fucking food when you’re actually fucking hungry and not eat…

The idea of “healthy at every size” is not that a specific individual will be equally healthy at any size. The idea is that weight alone is not a good general indicator of health as one person’s healthy weight may be another person’s concerningly under- or overweight. Alas, “It is possible for people to live healthy…

22! I forgot (never realized?) how young she was. I’m also not sure if I ever knew she was an immigrant, and how that was weaponized against her - so much vulnerability. My heart aches for her.

The “joy” (read: horror) of capitalism is that literally anything, no matter how noble, positive, or even anti-capitalist, will eventually be co-opted and sold.

I’m so bad at math that even the metric system kinda throws me off :(

Next stop: Mar-a-Lago.

Actually it once again has to do with white supremacy. In the early 70s, “segregation academies” were founded ostensibly on religious terms in an effort to continue segregation. Evangelicals highly favored them, and they enjoyed tax exempt status and counted as charities for donation purposes. Nixon started to push…

Because in the US it was determined by the far right to be a wedge political issue to eventually attract single issue uninformed voters. There are alot of people that vote Republican for only that reason. And they are like that because their churches and politicians convinced them it was that important with…

Henry Chadwick described the process by which the CofE defanged itself from the 19th century onwards to keep the country Christian. They wanted to prevent what happened in France where the Church became tainted by their association with the ancien regime. 

I honestly can’t either, and I know it almost certainly doesn’t happen. But I also believe that it’s a hypothetical with the power to sway opinions on RHA, so if there’s factual information to counter it, I want it.

Yeah, I have zero problem with questions being asked about Kamala Harris’s record. She has a lot of things to explain. They’re questions worth asking.

I don’t know WTF kinds of dads you’re hanging out with, but let’s give him a little bit of credit. He’s got a nice body. It’s covered in ridiculous drawings, and he less talented than my cats (who, by the way, are QUITE talented), but that is a good looking torso there. It’s just too bad it’s attached to an entitled…

How heroic of you.