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I am an asshole.

Absolutely. My ultra conservative family still dismisses my liberalism because I’m “young.” But I get more liberal, in terms of what they would consider liberal, as the years go on. If I’m a 35 year old with a spouse, a mortgage, a buncha kids, have now been in the work force for 20 years, how much more of an adult do…

I’m in my thirties now and working in legal aid. I would have to have an actual brain injury and total amnesia to see what I see every day in the lives of my clients and turn around and become conservative. If you open your eyes to the reality of the effects of politics on people’s lives, I don’t know how you can…

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.

If your friend was a true fiscal conservative, he wouldn’t be a Republican.

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

“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 40, you have no head.”

Starred because it deserves to be ungreyed. But I disagree that conservative policies are reasonable about money - see our military spending, the long term cost of cutting funding to health care, social safety nets, and education. It doesn't matter if you save a dime here if you lose a dollar later because your…

Or center of gravity.

In what universe does a Raptor have a P/W ratio like this?

This is not a “kit” car. It is a fully built production automobile.

In what way? I have nothing against him personally, but he cannot win at this point. He is not going to get super-delegates. He’s only been a Democrat since last year...it’s just not realistic.

I don’t think he’s actively trying (like Nader certainly was), I think he’s been drinking too much of his own kool aid and doesn’t have the right advisors to pull him back. But we’re fast approaching the point where it doesn’t fucking matter what his intentions are, he will be actively harming our chances in November.…

This is funny and unexpected. Not uncomfortable at all to me.

An AFL ball is oblong, and is quite flat at both ends. It’s bounce is incredibly unpredictable, just look at the route it takes at each of the restarts once the ref hits it off the ground. For a guy who just picked up the game to be able to run full speed, in a top flight game, and bounce it perfectly back up to…

“The world now caters to the 10% of people who are offended”

How does that work, exactly

The world actually caters to the .1% who have 90% of all the wealth.

I am not painting *you* as anything. I am also, in my way, as I mentioned up top, “a woman who supports Bernie,” although as a journalist I don’t throw my arms around any politician entirely and never will.

Hardly. Hoses, belts, seals, and anything else made of rubber is worn out and needs to be replaced. But it should be a relatively simple task to recondition the motor and get it into running condition again. Hell of a lot easier than rebuilding a motor that’s been sitting out rusting for 40 years. This ones basically…