Basically every GOP policy stand is a contradiction in kind. Abortion? Well, okay, so life starts at conception of the idea of pregnancy and children are precious... so free child care and children’s health care? Nope. Okay, well I guess children are only important in uetro, so free maternal health care? NOPE on that.…
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Obviously you’re basic because you’re not gifting your family pendants snatched from the local artisan fair that contain mass produced beads and shitty stones.
YEP.
The idea of “merit based immigration” is also funny coming from the “they’re taking our jobs!” crowd. Like, sure, you can give visas to people who have computer engineering degrees- but there are already Americans who have those degrees and want to work in that field. There aren’t tons of Americans who want to spend…
I read the link after reading your comment. I can’t believe it. He admitted to raping her. She asked if he was “Ronny”, he said yes. When she saw it was him she screamed. He fucking raped her. But even with his own words out there for anyone to read, he’ll never be considered a rapist. Because he said she was a…
My favorite thing (if such a thing exists) about all this awful shit is that I don’t give a fuck if Dustin Hoffman ever works again. Or any of them! If Tom Hanks and Levar Burton are the only men left in the entertainment industry in 18 months, you know, so what? The fate of R. Kelly, Jeremy Piven, et fucking al is…
I am aghast at the story of his losing his virginity. It sounds like he participated in the gang rape of his brother’s girlfriend at age 15. There’s too much to unpack there. I really wish I could hear the woman’s account of that evening because it seems like a horrifying experience. He has to be missing some serious…
Thank you. I live so close to Murfreesboro. I’m the white mother of a biracial little boy, who Is my world. To know how close a mob of people who hate him for no reason other than melanin, were to his home, his world, has left me shaking. He obliviously played and laughed his way through the weekend. I wish for a…
“Ignore a bully and they’ll go away” is the most privileged piece of advice that exists.
Yeah we have to keep opposing this shit. Ignoring it just gives them a free platform. Unless we push back hard they’ll gain traction simply through normalization and acclimation. Fuck these nazi shitheels and counter them every chance we get. Thank you so fucking much for joining the counter protest. You are literally…
Ikr? It’s not a boy in elementary school pulling your pigtails; it’s fricking Nazis.
“Just giving them attention”...yeah. ADVERSE attention. Which is also spelled OPPOSITION. And DISCOURAGEMENT.
How unfortunate that so many people are responding to this heartfelt piece with their own biases. Whether or not YOU find a religious congregation worth pursuing, whether or not YOU believe in God or faith is not the point. This writer does, and she should be allowed to express that and her disappointment in her…
“the reality is if two people were together for 22 years it was because they were aiming for a lifetime. No rational human being wants to start afresh after 22 years unless the relationship is irretrievably failed.”
That is a conservative reflection- you’re right!
At the risk of answering like a conservative: Why pay more? The cost of giving people free needles & preventative drugs is TINY compared to the cost society pays after they’re infected, & have infected others, & continue committing crimes to get their drugs, & so on.
It’s a public health issue. HIV meds are VERY VERY expensive out of pocket and it is a communicable disease. It is in everyone’s best interest for people with HIV to have a non-detectable viral load, because it’s what stops transmission and slows the epidemic.
“But is there an ability, since I guess public dollars are expended heavily in prophylaxis and treatment of this condition, so we have a public interest in curtailing the spread. … Are there any methods we could do legally to curtail the spread?”
It’s a fair critique of a woman coming out of a breakup, not a situation where she was sexually assaulted. So while “let’s not generalize men” sounds like it’s applicable to recent times, it’s really talking about a coping mechanism that both men and women use right after a romantic fallout, in my opinion.