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“Does anyone else feel that your comprehension has changed dramatically regarding America and how you fit into it?”

I’m glad she feels like she can join this organization and be supported by its current members, but I also think (some of!) the Marines she knows are fucking full of shit.

I am 100% sure that some of those “disgusted” men looked at photos. Of course they did.

Cis women who had small breasts at an early age also don’t know what it’s like to be stared at for having large breasts at an early age....

I’m an anarchist, and I vote every damn time.

Bingo. Companies can avoid collusion with a wink and nod agreement to charge people out the ass. There’s nothing to really keep competitors competing .

You’ll take away their right to form an opinion on something? Are you only allowed to have opinions on things you participate in? I have an opinion on concussion protocols in the NFL but I’m certainly not a participant. I have an opinion on which color bell pepper tastes better even though I don’t grow them. I have an

Why isn’t Election Day on a weekend? Why isn’t it a national holiday? Why isn’t a permanent absentee ballot a national imperative? Why are there voter ID laws that require IDs that require taking time off work to obtain? Why are voters stricken from rolls just because they have the same name as voters in other states?

A flat tax benefits the rich, and harms the poor. But here’s Robert Reich’s explanation of why that is:

Oh no, I think we should let them dig their own graves a little deeper. Does anyone have a backhoe to lend them?

America has bred a culture that has institutionalised greed and made taking whatever measures needed to acquire possessions tantamount to fulfilling one’s life fulfillment. The ‘haves’ already have ‘it’. The ‘have nots’ don’t and because the culture shames them for not being able to acquire ‘it’, some people resort to

Before the ACA, it was. I paid vastly more than my brothers in health insurance even WITHOUT maternity. Individual insurance was so unbelievably unfair.

Just like with Sessions saying something about going after states with legal marijuana, hitting them with RICO charges cause weed is against federal law. So now you fuckers are against states rights? Bunch of hypocrites, all of em.

Actually the right response is a crowd of angry Americans ready to confront the top 1% French Revolution style.

Yeah, forgot that. Kale or something probably.

BTW, have to admit I’m slightly tickled that even North Carolina is shitting on Mississippi and Alabama. They get a modern economy the last few decades, and all of a sudden they are New York or some shit.

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If you haven’t done it all your life, I guess, yeah. The 85+ year olds in my family in India have never used a toilet. If outside the home, I’d rather squat over a hole in the ground to do my business than sit on a toilet. Squatting over a toilet is more difficult, too.

Wait... you mean the duck bacon I buy at Whole Foods isn’t what the Neanderthals bought? Omg where did they get groceries? Aldi?!!

I think her expression of "Yes, this is what I am doing with my life" really ties the room together.