You can’t maintain a bad, bloated, and often harmful system because some people don’t want to look for a new job. Imagine you’re talking about coal miners, saying the exact same thing. Should their industry be propped up, despite the harm it does, because they’re concerned about transitioning to a new field?

From Gearoid, ‘cause you can never repeat this enough:

I wish someone had asked Stable Big Brain Genius what laws, and how they need changed. And why, with two years of a Republican Congress, he wasn’t able to get them changed? 

You said an absolute word. In so many people eyes a childhood is for white children only. Us folks of color aren’t deserving of the protection, care and innocence that they deny us and actively steal from us. In their perspective our children are no better than the adults and in their minds the adults are no better…

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Nobody cares that you’re scared of girls.

So you’re saying that the most effective protest would be to give up her global platform, the enormous stage that magnifies her protest so people can actually see it the world over, and generate converation.

I just ran out of thoughts and prayers.

Reminder that trump voters are trash.

Note, when the spineless far-right sack of shit is incapable of making any substantive rebuttal it will often post a response like this. No doubt most of you have seen it before. It postures, pretending it’s simply too good to respond and that by insulting the spineless cunt you’ve breached the boundaries of…

*Fragile state. The former “Failed States index” changed their name precisely because of bigoted asshats like you misusing the terminology.

Sandy Hook didn’t move the needle a bit. What makes you think this would have the slightest impact on their evil black hearts?

Reminder that people, actual human beings, with hopes and dreams and aspirations of a better life, are dying for absolutely no reason. If you’re okay with that, then you are a scumbag. So yeah, add me to the chorus: Go fuck yourself.

The only illegal immigration problem we have is the agenda driven motherfuckers, craven opportunists, and boot licking followers making legitimate immigration illegal. Fuck off and grow a set, what are you so scared of anyway? 

Fucking sockpuppets. Hey Splinter staff, please clean house. I’m begging you. We all deserve better here. I’ll click your articles a dozen times each to make up for these useless trolls. 

Ban this sick troll. 

I would like to point out that these people would not be making these difficult and tragic journeys if their homes had not become unbearable. Most people love their homes, and only leave them when circumstances make the place they love and know more terrifying than the unknown.

According to Le Duc’s reporting for La Jornada, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, frustrated because the family from El Salvador were unable to present themselves to U.S. authorities and request asylum, swam across the river with his daughter, Valeria.

Reminder (not that it should matter, but apparently does): Seeking asylum is 100% legal. Presenting yourself to authorities for asylum processing is exactly what the law of this country requires. His daughter and him didn’t die because he chose to disregard this country’s laws (again, not that it should matter at all…