I seem to only be able to communicate in gif/jpeg form today.

Great. I’m crying and now I want an apricot. Thanks, Obama.

Can someone make a dating site for people who want to find a husband just like him??

I love everything about this and should probably just shut down the internet for the night because it can only go downhill from here.

“When Michelle and I came into office....”

I can’t even with this guy today.

From what I understand, there was a risk if we did not approve the deal of a push at the UN for sanctions against the United States.

What I continue to find lacking in the coverage of this is the fact that the “deal” is not just between Iran and the United States. This is a multi-national agreement that has already been approved by the UN Security Council and the other nations participating. Congressional “approval” is mostly pro-forma and not the…

Ooh yes and Bernie wants to do it with a trading tax and rescue our financial system from the pro-wealthy corruption that is high frequency trading. No other dem has the backbone to take this on, except for possibly Mother Warren (praise be and pray for 2020).

This is why I'm a huge fan of Bernie, but I think he has a big branding problem. He needs to better explain to people how this would actually be good for our economic system!

Reading your reply gave me goosebumps. Maybe it’s the beer making me more emotional as usual, or it just could be the fact that someone else acknowledges that my crippling debt doesn’t make me a horrible person and wants what I want. You’re right, if the Democratic candidate, whoever it may be, comes out swinging hard…

But with all the entertainment options everyone has these days, how is anyone going to notice how pious he’s being, if he doesn’t act like a fucking jackass and get on the news?

Very true, but the religions that put abortion and homosexuality at the top of the sin pedestal are the same ones invested in male superiority and dominance, and in absolving men of any responsibility. These religions cast women as gatekeepers and temptresses, and men as hapless victims.

They played part of her testimony on NPR (or the BBC?) this week. It was physically painful to listen to. I hope she has nothing but the best emotional support right now. I wanted to reach through the radio and hug her.

seriously, how do we give her support? i want her to know that we are out here and support and believe her!

I feel so bad for her. It’s shitty to learn at such a young age how much the world sucks. I mean, you know it as an abstract concept but this?

Yeah, I'm an atheist-raised-christian, I just think that's an interesting story. Just some guy with a job, and then this dude shows up that everyone wants to get dead. In part, Jesus died because he told people to pay their taxes and to stop being greedy.

There was definitely an argument in the comparative religions class I mentioned elsewhere where a kid accused me of not thinking Jesus was a real person when I said that I just thought he was a really charismatic leader, but not the actual, literal son of God.

I wasn't raised atheist, but raised with zero religion. I willingly went to sunday school with some of my friends a few times because I wondered what I was missing. After 3-4 trips, I was done (I was 8-9?). No racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. etc. from either of my parents. And, as ironically as I can use this…

I was raised in an atheist household (I'm 25 now), and I'm always surprised at how uncommon it is. I know lots of atheists, but all of them came to their atheism as teenagers or adults. I don't know anyone else with atheist parents.