So many people hear “you shouldn’t spank your kids” and immediately get defensive because their parents spanked them, and if you aren’t supposed to, than that means that they had bad parents. But they love their parents, they couldn’t have been bad, so that must mean spanking is okay.

This is actually a good argument for eliminating the electoral college. Hear me out:

I still do not fully understand why they are tripling down on 45, any competent republican would do a much better job achieving their agenda.

Kids who grew up with Obama got spoiled. They came of age thinking you were supposed to feel inspired to vote; that you needed to fall in love with your candidate.

So does that mean I can just do whatever I want and disregard federal laws because I’m not subject to the jurisdiction thereof the United States when I’m on its soil?

The idea is that while birthright citizenship is in the constitution, it’s not exactly defined in the constitution. It just says:

Number two: He hated his mother for being a Democrat—this is a nice way to get back at her, don’t you think?

The thing about racist, sexist, xenophobic, and otherwise bigoted code-speak is that there’s never going to be a trial. We’re never going to find a notarized logbook of approved code words. We’re never going put the designated representative of the Alt-Right on the stand and have him say, under oath, “yeah, when we…

There’s no point. A) it’s code, so they don’t actually care. B) they’d all just shout “TREASON!” or some bullshit. C) even if you cornered Trump or one of those chanters, and made them answer you, they’d just call you fake news and ignore you.

The thing is, the right genuinely wants it to be. They want a bloody counter-revolution. They want a purge. They almost want what you see on TV, but it never quite fits.

It’s also a question though, and I think you would agree here, that much of this revolves around what the right considers “powerful.” Is, or was, Hillary Clinton truly “powerful?” Of course not. 

“We are conscious that many in the CS:GO community will disagree with this and we understand their feelings, but do not agree and feel that sanctions in esports ought to reflect what is accepted practice in traditional sports as our industry professionalizes.”

Something that is not lost on Trump (although he wouldn’t necessarily understand it in these terms):

Don’t discount those. The slugs who came out of the garden after the 2016 election at places like the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville are still there. It’s not like those thousands of angry white people chanting “Blood and Soil” saw the light and are now all volunteering at black charities. Not a single one…

It’s six of one, half a dozen of the other. A competent asshole knows what is morally right and effective in practice. He has to choose to do evil. An incompetent asshole may make the same choices, but he believes he’s also doing good. It’s not necessarily better to have someone who has no idea what he’s doing, but…

Anyway, her comment could mean that Arya is literally the last one standing, possibly after she stealthily murdered every other major player and claimed the Iron Throne for herself. It could also mean she has a sad, lonely death scene, where—much like during the rest of her story—none of her family members are around…

Agreed. If they badgered Kavanaugh with the same questions over and over, then all that would have happened is Lindsey Graham would have interrupted to shame everyone for putting this poor man through such a terrible sham, then Grassley would have declared an end to that Senator’s time to question Kavanaugh, and the…

What we need here is not precedent, at least in the legal sense. What we need is a cultural shift where people are unwilling to simply wash their hands of police misconduct, including in cases where the video clearly contradicts the officer’s account, by just saying “I’m not going to second guess the life or death…

Moreover, I think the cultural shift is not that more woman than men are doing it, just that more women are talking about it.

RE: Vanilla