No, I hate coffee. And I’m done engaging with someone who thinks “libtard” is an intelligent contribution to a discussion. Bye now.

Uh, no. We already have plenty of “meaningful checks” on immigration for people fleeing this sort of violence. I just explicitly said I opposed that. Why on earth do you think I’d completely change my opinion because some dude called NumbNutz told me to without in any way offering an argument in favor of that…

Ahhhh, okay. Tone does get lost easily, heh. Sorry for the misunderstanding. :)

I think there’s a meaningful difference between the sensationalist clickbait stories (which often focus more on the attackers and speculation about Why They Did It, or involve the repulsive practice of chasing down family members and shoving microphones in their face) and the simple “here is what friends and family…

I probably won’t show up to their funerals, no, both because I don’t have the necessary funds to pay for a last-minute trip to Iraq and because it seems unlikely that their families would particularly want a random stranger at their private ceremonies, so that doesn’t seem like an intelligent or useful thing for me to…

Uh...okay. I’m sorry you object to victims’ stories being told, I guess? I don’t think I said anything about “all of the stories all the time,” but just that I think it’s important to remember and pay tribute to the victims of terrorist attacks no matter what country they take place in - and that I try to hope that…

I have wished more than once that victims of these sorts of attacks in Muslim-majority countries would get the same coverage that we give to victims of domestic terror attacks. Show us their pictures. Tell us their names and their stories. Let us cry over these murdered children the way we cried over the murdered…

While this is a legitimate concern, there are ways to mitigate it. Making people volunteering for this sort of program pass a background check would weed out anyone who’s on the sex offender registry, and having an easy way for parents and kids to leave feedback on carers would help make sure that people who were…

Starred for being aware of “Evening Primrose.” :)

Ugh, I hate people. I’m sorry you and your husband had to deal with that crap.

My freshman year of college, the same idiot managed to set off the fire alarm in the middle of the night three separate times in five days. Dude would apparently get some combination of drunk and stoned, decide around 2-3 AM that he really wanted popcorn, set the microwave timer to half an hour instead of three…

It’s extra stupid in this case. Like, is there a woman alive who’s going to be insulted by having a guy who is at best a misogynist dickbag and at worst (and likeliest) a misogynist dickbag serial rapist tell her he doesn’t find her haircut attractive? Does he really think a woman who is publicly stating that she…

This is what you actually said:

So, I have a real problem with this line of argument, in large part because no one has yet managed to explain to me why it isn’t just as applicable, if not more applicable, to disabled 20- or 30-somethings having kids. And when one starts advocating that people with disabilities shouldn’t be allowed to breed, there is…

Wow, the data from that study is kinda depressing.

I have plenty of logic and reading comprehension, thank you. I also have non-working legs. And I’m part of “everyone.” When you say that “everyone” can do something that many people cannot do, you erase me and people like me.

Really? Quadriplegics can and should exercise? They just “think they can’t”?

I think this is an unfortunate typo:

Except it’s really not “almost the exact same joke.” Sam Bee, playing a hippie in 1973, saying, “Who wants to have unprotected sex?” is a joke about an individual female character responding to having the right to abortion in a ridiculous way. The Daily Show saying, “Go knock someone up in Texas!” completely erases…

Why not, exactly? It’s people using or seeking to use accommodations for a disability they don’t have. Many people with PTSD need content warnings because of their disability. That is an accessibility issue. Many people with dyslexia need extra time because of their disability. That is an accessibility issue. Many…