Couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s a classic case of “let’s screw over a private company because they I don’t FEEL LIKE THEY ARE FAIR ENOUGH”.

Oh boy, a private company is getting competitive! Better shut them down! The playing field is UNEVEN. REPEAT - UNEVEN.

EXACTLY! I wonder what other groups will end up being discriminated against - the blind, and deaf? What about preferences for male/female/other drivers? Or requesting a driver of a specific race? The possibilities are endless!

Glad she is recovering!

^^^THIS. “Outrage bullshit” is the perfect name for it.

No, but many of them are. And all it takes is many of them...

Screw these guys. If you have to do something illegal to get your job done, in what is a massively bias system in your favor, then you’re a crappy cop.

Maybe because the Bolt is butt-ugly...?

How is a 5 year old mature enough to make the assertion that they are transgender? My 4 year old daughter does all kinds of role playing and imagining, insisting she is things she is not. She is a child, with a child’s brain. Enabling the child’s delusion that he is something is is not is, in effect, sentencing them…

Probably because criminals also have weapons.

And people wonder why racism continues to be perpetuated in America.

Curious how there is no mention of the shooters and how most of the comments seem to conclude that the police are the problem. What about the actual gang members and criminals doing the actual killing? I guess they’re just victims of circumstance and an incompetent police department...

It’s too vague. Simply being against the 1%, or the Trumpers, or the Repubs may be enough to make people a little fired up and click ‘Like’ or retweet, but I don’t think it’s enough to inspire or galvanize or motivate actual change. Also, it’s hard to believe that the party that raised over $1 billion for their…

Because sometimes it IS important to listen and hear and empathize, and also engage and challenge and debate. What significant would our opinions have, our values, our ideas, if they were never shared or discussed or challenged? And how else would we grow intellectually?

Exactly my point. And yet droves of fundamentalists make it their MISSION to draw lines around certain groups of people and stamp them “sinner”; they feel it’s their moral obligation or something. I think it is immoral, hypocritical, and gives Christianity a bad name, and drives people away from the good that…

Excellent points. A sad anecdote - when my non-denomination church openly expressed support for the LGBT community (2015 I think), their attendance drop by like 75% and they eventually had to close all but one of their locations. And this is in the Seattle area too!

As someone raised in the Catholic faith (now non-denominational) I still wrestle with this topic. Here’s how I break down the reasoning: is being gay a choice? If so, than the behavior can be separated from the person as a conscious decision, and arguments can be made for heterosexual relationship. However, if being…

This is what my arguments always come down to: “Then you should cut ties with everyone who sins, which means you would cut ties with everyone you know. So have fun in your church of one.” The hypocrisy and moral overreach of people try to wield the Bible like a friggin club; using it to label, judge and condemn. Never…

Exactly what I was going to say! Especially #1.

I was with you until “Because the system is already set up for them to fail.” This implies that against all odds and personal choices and circumstances, black people are pre-destined to fail because of “the system”. I certainly won’t deny the cops’ attitudes that you described, and that may (or may not) be true on a…