Here’s the problem with those numbers, they are inflated. If you smoked at any point in your life for any stretch of time and then die from something that is linked to smoking, you died from smoking. Doesn’t matter if you’ve been smoke free for 30 years, to the CDC and others, you still died from smoking.

Lifehacker: “Cigarettes are bad”

The authoritarian regulation of what amounts to a moral decision or taste or should never taken on by government. The government should not be involved in any personal morals. The total legalization of all recreational drugs from alcohol to tobacco to cocaine....

This is where people get confused about Socialism. Everyone thinks it’s a system where everyone just sits around and gets a check in the mail from the government. That’s Communism. In Socialism, the workers own their workplace, and get to keep the operating profit rather than it getting handed to a shareholder or…

Don’t be fucking stupid. Humans are more complex than that, so just fuck off with your transphobic shit.

Democrats forgot the group for whom they were supposed to be working. They switched from actual workers to corporations.

This is why I’m so tired of people claiming that discussions about and/or confronting racism will perpetuate it, and the only way to end it is to stop talking about it. Jasmine was expected to just ignore her potential teammates racist comments in order to ensure they had good “chemistry”. Her being quiet would have…

Bernie comment on a non-Bernie story. Nice. If nothing else Kinja is consistent

Yeah I’m not sure it’s about him getting paid so much as its about the fact that he got paid as much for one speech (to wall street) as 6 working poor families might make in a year. It’s just a bad look at a time when the democratic party doesn’t need any more bad looks. And you know, he made something like $20…

They better leave Barrak alone. He saved Wall Street. Dude has earned the right to get a check.

He has an 80% approval rating among registered Democrats. Fam, his cult is THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

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Thank you! I agree 1000% It’s like they don’t know their tail from their ass. They say Fuck the Bernie Bros but if you want to change the party come and join us to change the party but when they do, they go back to FUCK off Bernie Bros! Honestly they can’t see the forest fro the trees It’s a damn shame.

Bernie immediately endorsed Clinton, you dishonest tool. Sanders supporters overwhelmingly voted for her in the general election. And unlike Clinton Sanders didn’t make a mind-shatteringly inappropriate “well hey the other guy could always get assassinated in June” crack to explain his continued presence in the race.

Democrats ran to the right because that’s where the donors ran then insisted that them being left of center talk on social issues was sufficient to overlook their more right-leaning economic policies and demanded fealty from the base.

Last I checked, Black people benefit from a raise in the minimum wage, we benefit from universal health care, we benefit from a government that actually listens to citizens rather than the donors.

BErnie did endorse her. He traveled all over the damn country rallying people to vote for her including places she herself couldn’t be arsed to visit.

Yep. Couldn’t have said it better myself. If there is one thing I regret about Sanders it that he has given them a reason to stick their head in the sand for another two decades. Maybe I’ll be surprised, but I would bet that the next few election cycles play out like this: Trump loses in 2020 (assuming he doesn’t…

You do have a point there. It does feel as though the Democratic party runs in order to play the role of savior but doesn’t actually do anything. When they’re in the majority they talk bullshit about being bi-partisan. They have members of their caucus sabotage progress. (Fuck you Joe LIEberman) they can’t be arsed to…

Maybe the Democratic party should spend less time bitching about Bernie Sanders and more time adopting some of his policies.