Agreed. There isn’t anything that Trump is pursuing or could potentially pursue that the GOP won’t get out of a President Pence, if not more/worse. Pence is a dominionist, which means that he believes in installing his particular brand of evangelism as a state religion, which is terrifying in and of itself, but just…

iMODOK, don’t you understand that the real point here is to relish in vindication for the side you picked, not to do anything about gun control specifically? The important thing is that my team won, so the only thing that matters is shoving their face in the mud.

Ghandi was also extremely racist, so there’s that.

Hey, now. This isn’t the place for a nuanced understanding of the past, as well as acknowledging the complexity of people; this is the Internet. The only thing here that matters is how rabidly you advocate your position.

Yeah, but then you would have to watch Seinfeld, ugh.

I would normally agree with you, but the critical need to be able to block any more Trump SCOTUS appointments overrides everything else.

Sure, but I think that you are assuming the nature of her post while I was talking in more general terms; all we know here is her (second-hand) assertion that, ‘she nearly lost her job talking about Trump.’ It could easily be the case that her employer disciplined her over making posts to the effect of, ‘Trump’s going…

Even there, it really isn’t. To be fair, this is an area of Free Speech that the courts really haven’t explored in too much detail, so it could certainly shake out differently, but the normative thinking on this subject so far is that social media is no different than the public square. It is settled law that if you,…

I was thinking the other day that the Citadel is interesting from the perspective that when Rick and Morty are normalized, especially Rick’s intellect, the result we see is the same social stratification as in our society. It seemed to be a nod to the concept of market forces and other social science theories,…

I think that the show is simply setting up the expectation that we will find out that there is something special about our Rick in regards to his caring/sacrifice for Beth so that it can knock that down with the overriding message of the show, i.e. philosophical nihilism.

To be fair, the Republicans fought Obamacare tooth and nail primarily because it had a black man’s name on it.

I LOL’d.

Doesn’t matter; the churches will get the funds. The Trinity Lutheran decision was an unprecedented sea change in the way that the Establishment Clause is viewed by the judiciary, a terrifying departure from the traditional interpretation of the past 200 years. Prior to the decision, giving tax money to churches was…

The subject that seems to be missing here is what to do when the streaming income goes away. The public is nothing if it isn’t fickle, so what happens when your popularity flags and the money goes away? On any resume this is just going to look like a long period of unemployment and explaining it would only worsen that…

This Banff?

Of course not; atheism is the lack of belief in a god or gods. But from the legal perspective it has to be considered one for the purpose of protecting people that identify as atheists. Regardless, expressing bigotry towards a minority group on the basis of religious grounds is religious bigotry.

The meaning of religious bigot would be someone that is bigoted on the subject of religion. For example, you just showed yourself to be a religious bigot.

Yep.

Isn’t Steve Harvey also a huge religious bigot?

I’ve refused to play multiplayer games since I was young, mainly because nothing about that gameplay style has any of the things I find rewarding about video games, but I can tell you why I cheat, and why I do so a whole lot more than I use to: I’m not 20 anymore. I simply don’t have the time to invest in a lengthy…