Well, we’re not exactly hiring our best and brightest as police.

I mentioned above that this is the new normal. The Donald Trump school of discourse. Don’t have an actual postition? Clearly in the wrong? Doesn’t matter! Just call your opponent a pathetic loser, fat pig, etc.

I don’t think BLM and the police are equal in this respect (which is, of course, the entire reason BLM exists in the first place). BLM is only powerful insofar as it’s able to draw attention to its arguments and force the other side to come to the negotiating table. Police unions and governments have the unilateral…

Great question and remarkably poor insight on the part of PSU. If I had to guess, I would say they have been so powerful in their small town in rural PA and gotten away with so much for so long, they just can’t fathom how they can lose.

Just chuck it out, own your home.

So are they walking out on the justice and accountability part? Or the fact that they dared to wear a shirt with names of two dead black men?

Still better than a Range Rover.

Polished wood seats and no seat belts. This will all end in tears.

Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart and Lisa just shove weeks of trash under the carpet and sofa, and then when Homer and Marge come home and everyone is sitting on it enjoying their TV dinners, the couch goes boom...

“I never said six!”

*fellow old fist-bump for the Risky Business reference*

a lot of teens? I know honest to goodness adults who know jack shit about politics, let alone how the economy or government function. Whenever i hear someone say “we need to go back on the gold standard” i want to slap them in the face with cinderblock.

Uphill, both ways, and in the snow, too, right?

Then you were very unusual for an 18 year old.

Republicans have been true to the concept of fiscal conservatism in name only for as long as I’ve been alive. It’s propaganda that doesn’t have anything to do with their actual policies.

I’m the liberal NY Jew she’s now dating.

Agreed. I usually hear it spouted by people who had no head when they were 20, and never decided to get one.

That’s not entirely fair—a lot of teens aren’t really educated on the issues, and if their families and friends are conservative and that’s all they know, they’re more likely to lean conservative. I was the same way (sans boyfriend) because I was raised in a very conservative Christian environment. I grew up and then…