I’ve been called to play that role for an ex by a bunch of her girlfriends on a girls’ night out. The guy was way focused and persistent and apparently their attempts to get rid of him had failed miserably. I showed up, casually draped an arm around her, and he was gone inside of 30 seconds.

Literally settled two years ago.

If the person someone is supporting is a proven (for decades) vicious and ignorant racist, then that makes a message of support for him a racist message. You can’t fly a Nazi flag and be like “but I’m totally cool with Jews”. And yes, if it’s a response to the anthem protest, then it’s also racial there too, because…

So people are more likely to be killed by the people near them than by people far away from them? Shocking!

it’s not just a set of hollow rituals.

I’m sure when she turned 17 that December everything changed.

That... is not how debt collection works.

I’m so torn between the obvious sense and sensibility of this, and the shoddy logic that affects parts of it. By even mentioning them, I become at best a concern troll, or perhaps something much worse. If you support a good position with poor logic, how much of it can be wrong before it becomes a bad argument? I…

He’s black, though. That makes them slightly less pro rape.

Eat shit, kids!

Mike Martz coaching in a novelty football league sounds fun as hell

Hard nope on the “humans used to live to 45" crap. They lived to 60 or so.

Except for the fact that:

Esther, thank you again for highlighting the voices of immigrants and immigration lawyers in these pieces. Facts are so important at times like this.

Well, yes, but that’s basically a tautology. People who are taking opioids responsibly almost never overdose! Okay, fine, but thousands of people every year are dying from overdoses. “Wag our fingers at them” isn’t much of a solution.

Don’t engage with that Russian-trained troll

You have the correct take here and the commentariat at Splinter has lost their goddamn minds.

A little background:

I am responding here since I am gray:

The vaccines are chosen by a statistical method that maximizes their effectiveness. If by “bullshit” you mean: it successfully reduces the spread of influenza, then that’s an odd definition of bullshit.