At least according to the appeal on this lawsuit, it’s more eyebrow raising than ‘he thought he deserved more for his injuries’. His friend, whose driving caused his injuries, had $3 million in combined policy limits. There’s a lot of legal inside baseball int he resulting appellate opinion, but the short version is…
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Me too. Public opinion will turn against these officers if the two kids are revealed to be key players on that football team, and for no other reason.
There are always people who enjoy watching assholes because it makes them feel vicariously powerful. He’s their id. He gets to be the loudmouthed fuckbags they wish they could be, if only they had the power and the platform to do the same.
There’s a point at which it no longer matters when you’re acting and when it’s the supposedly “real you”.
Accurate, but... there are significant numbers of poor white people who aren’t like this at all, who don’t blame black people for their situation, who correctly place the blame for their hard lives on exploitation by rich white people.
Nobody other than you is using words like victim, ignorant, or evil in talking about these women. Nobody has suggested they are incapable of independent thought.
If you gently point out to them that actually, God made it very clear he will judge them for insulting others or oppressing the poor, maybe not so much abortion, they get very agitated. There’s a conflict in that branch of Christianity between the official line, which is that they follow what the Bible says, and the…
Who said they were “simple”? You’re choosing to invent insults that simply aren’t there.
Does it really “help” in any significant numbers, though? Old-school fiscal conservative Republicans who think birth control and widespread sex education are fantastic ways of preventing abortion are not exactly a majority demographic here.
“Cancel culture” is like “fake news” - it means nothing, it’s just a phrase they utter to signal to their fellow travelers that something they don’t like is Of The Left, and therefore a bad thing.
The problem is that the opposition to abortion you’re talking about is bound up tight with a lot very deep emotions about sexuality and shame - especially for white women who belong to evangelical/traditional white Christian churches, where the theology is driven by terror of eternal damnation. And those churches have…
This is true, and I apologize for my oversight.
Agree, but the FDA having a more narrow message is unfortunate and confusing.
Trump hates civil rights because it limited his ability to be a racist-ass slumlord. That is the sum total of what he knows about the civil rights movement.
Agreed, it’s just unfortunate that the FDA recall is more limited.
It is safe* to buy onions that aren’t from Thomson International.
This is confusing... the FDA recall says red onions, but the supplier lists basically all onions.
HSAs are great if offered in addition to functioning health insurance plans. I would love to have been able to use a former job’s HSA for retirement and other savings, but the health insurance they offered along with it had an enormous deductible and the insurer was so op positional that nothing got paid for without a…
We can all handle contrarian viewpoints even when they’re not thoughtful, respectful, and explanatory. Our perseverance says nothing about the value of reflexive, entertainment-seeking contrarianism, which does far less to sharpen our minds or provoke useful discussion than sincerely-held, informed viewpoints.