Ehhh whatever... and (unpopular opinion perhaps) but I kind of agree with his point on child support from the father. If we’re going to be consistent with the belief that sexual autonomy includes the right to not be forced into parenthood, that should mean that both individuals expressly consent to taking on the…

Yes. I think if dems get a real majority in both houses, they will do all those things. 100%. The reason they haven’t done those things is because they really couldn’t, they didn’t have the votes. A bunch of democrats who are running have already said they would eliminate the filibuster in order to pass abortion…

Those people were never going to vote for Biden anyway, even if the economy was perfect. However, a lot of people are scared shitless at the prospect of losing abortion access, including quite a lot men. 

Ehhh yeah #4 will happen, but I’m still unsure of how much of an impact it will actually make. First of all, I’m doubtful that if someone doesn’t already believe the 2020 election was fraudulent, that they would be convinced to believe it now in regards to new elections. Second, a majority of Americans don’t believe…

What they thought would happen, if they gave it any thought at all, is that the court wouldn’t look at Roe until after the midterms, and a bunch of apathetic “both sides are the same” non-voters would continue to not vote and assume that everything would stay about the same for them. And the people who would vote,…

That’s because we have a winner take all system, especially for presidential elections. That makes it pretty much impossible to have viable third parties. A third party can supplant a dominant party but it takes decades of work, running candidates in every election, mostly local ones, and being okay with the fact that…

actually 4. Kansas and Minnesota. Kansas had record voter registration increases and turnout, in the middle of a PRIMARY election, for a confusingly worded ballot. You can extrapolate a lot of information from something like the Alaska election, seeing that half of Begich voters would rather have their second choice…

Defund the Police is one of the weirdest, shortsighted campaign points that 100% did cost important democratic seats. And I say weirdest because it’s inherently a GOOD policy. Broken apart, people support most of the platform. But the way it was marketed was so bad. I’ve never seen a policy that should be popular fail…

I think what they thought and hoped is that the Supreme Court wouldn’t take this case onto their docket until after midterms. And had that happened, the midterms would absolutely be going the way they wanted. Those of us who have been consistently paying attention (and voting!) knew this was coming. Honestly, it…

Very much this, but also, I don’t think most democrats want to be in bed with corporate donors, but the amount of influence big donors have on the campaign system makes it almost impossible to run an effective campaign without that money, especially in state-wide races. If this is important to liberals, then they need…

The reason the GOP is “coke” is because they are only in it to enrich themselves and essentially trick their supporters. The reason the Dems are “diet coke” is because apathetic centrists/third party/far leftist gave up on being politically involved for so long that essentially Dems have to scrape by a barely…

I constantly hear people say “I wish people would just be upfront about their past indiscretions (sexual, racist, etc), own up without prompting, and apologize.” Well, that’s what happened. It seems like some people feel that’s a good thing, others don’t.

Unless they don’t have the internet and only hire white Italians, this is no excuse. 

What’s actually even crazier to me about this is that he was literally ACTING when he kissed Viola Davis. Like the point of acting is to act as someone else, with their motivations. If he could only act what he truly believed all the time, he wouldn’t be an actor. (and that’s leaving out how many totally racist white…

All I can say is WHHYYYY? In addition to it being racist, it doesn’t even look good, and why would anyone want to buy a turtleneck that goes over half your face? I’m like honestly starting to wonder if these companies are even interested in selling shit anymore. 

How do you even plead not guilty to that? Like come on. Even if we believe that the totally unbelievable scenario that she woke up, consented to sex, and then went right back into her coma, she has had no experiences of growth beyond the age of 3, she would mentally be a child (I would assume!). I mean, just so fucked…

I believe Dr. Tyson, yeah WaPo didn’t publish it because they couldn’t corroborate the sources, but like how are you supposed to do that in this situation? It’s shitty and sad that we have to live in a world right where we have to choose between letting shitty men keep their jobs or letting shittier men ruin people’s…

I know, I thought about that too. But hey, if God gave humans free will, she is doing God’s work by allowing humans to practice that gift from the Lord. Also how many times in the bible does God just wipe out entire populations on a whim? You think God’s that concerned about a fetus? Come on. 

While I suppose some would call that abandonment, I think it’s better that your coworker’s kid gets time with a mom when she’s excited to be with him, while having a full time parent who is happy to be that. I would think that’s preferable to growing up with a parent who does not want to be there.

I highly recommend the book “If the Buddha Dated” by Charlotte Kasl, which covers many of these points. She recommends an interesting process for creating boundaries (what others might call red flags, or those in addiction circles sometimes call “bottom lines”), which is essentially something like “go back through…