This line is way way way way way tired anyway, and to say it about a young person who has essentially committed a misdemeanor (or anyone really) is disgusting.

Unless you’re indigenous. Aboriginal people have suffered a great deal of abuse from them.

Again I understand what you’re getting at but to certain ethnic groups the way they’re treated by the system is very similar.

“The Canadians aren’t perfect, but their system certainly seems to operate far better than ours.”

I know you mean well but the Canadian system treats its indigenous population and certain other ethnic groups pretty horrifically as well. Actually... a lot of other nations have not a good record of treating poc great.…

I had a friend who told me her period started while she was spending a night in jail. She asked for a pad and was refused, even though blood was running down her legs. She was only in jail the one night, and was able to get cleaned up the next day, but still. This was Winnipeg circa 1990 and she was white, if that…

I like how not demeanjng the judge is to the defendant. She recognizes that the woman broke the law, but she never treated her poorly or disrespectfully.

Libertarians want to destroy the social safety net, cut government revenue to the bone and effectively throw our country into chaos. There’s a reason their candidates (and most of their adherents) are former Republicans. It’s the same Got Mine, Fuck You attitude, just with less religion and more weed.

It’s everything aside from the War on Drugs... and there’s no “support for LGBT people”... Libertarians just want to slash and burn which coincides with disincentivizing marriage completely - something possibly dangerous without study since it might lead to an even more aged population in the long term.

“Support for LGBT” is pretty hollow when Libertarians don’t want the government to have the power to enforce anti-discrimination laws.

Personally, I find libertarians frustrating (and I say this as someone married to one) because it is all based on a false reality. Basically they are all about personal freedom and responsibility—so in theory that is fine but in reality it doesn’t work. It’s very anti-regulation and full belief in a totally…

What gets me about Libertarianism is that it’s largely a hypocritical cop out. It suggests, despite the mountain of obvious evidence, that the free market and private enterprise, by default, work efficiently and fairly. They also somehow think that the private sector is somehow suitable to provide virtually all…

A core element of the Libertarian party platform is that businesses should have the right to decide who to serve without any government interference. In other words, a restaurant owner should be able to kick black people out without penalty because “the free market” should punish them for it, not the law.

There is a pretty good website that explains how vaccines cause autism:

Things like this, his mental health charity and the Invictus games, are just a few of the reasons that many Brits love Harry.

I’d be absolutely gobsmacked if he had not already taken a test and knew his status in advance of this.

Lauren Conrad has got to be one of the top 5 luckiest people alive. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that probably only Kylie Jenner has worked less hard for her reality TV success.

10/10 would.

If you actually take the time to read the article their positions make a whole lot of sense...certainly more than the usual republican position. And isn’t one of the most common criticisms of Republicans that they stop caring about the person/fetus the moment they are born? These people seem to at least not be…

I have a hard time reconciling their beliefs with women’s rights, but this is what pro-life efforts should look like. If you want to minimize the use of abortion, you have to build the education and support to do so, not just blame pregnant women for becoming pregnant.

My dad died a week before my birthday last year. I was not really sad because we hadn’t spoken in years and he was on my shit list at that point. I didn’t really miss him because he hadn’t been around for years. A couple of weeks after he died, I met my boyfriend’s dad. I realized all the things I had been missing in…

Love this. My dad and I trade calls to each other every night to talk about politics, he is so amped about the DNC and is happy that he can vote this election. He just got his U.S. citizenship a year ago and is super stoked to vote in his first Presidential election. He wanted so badly to vote in the primaries and I…