Also, dismissing experts in the field and instead going with non-experts who validate your personal beliefs.

The issue is that every issue is economic and we refuse to have a real conversation about economics in the 21st century. We beat Russia... that doesn’t mean we need to double-down on cold war-era shit.

Even my cat knows the vet is good for her. When I take her to the vet (not often, but if she’s needing) she knows that I’m bringing her there because she feels icky and... frankly maybe I anthropomorphize my kitten too much, but she knows when she feels bad and I bring her to the vet that I’m giving her to people who…

This is just proof that public opinion doesn’t matter here. Let them make bad choices and then live with them. I wish we could let doctors give them a scare a la, “Well, you neglected the measles vaccine so we can’t do anything. Without the vaccine your kid may die, now”.

I know :/ I wish there was comment threading here!

Sure, but the lower-class man who gets named without any proof and finds out when the mother files an order for child support shouldn’t be how our society works.

Yep! Bad click! apologies :/

That’s basically what happened... we suffered through and then they went to bed and I recovered the disk and had some fun the next time.

I admire the legions of UN peacekeepers who engage in this not for the headlines but for the effects and because they’re doing their jobs.

You think a rich person who feels like they’re invincible doesn’t lend that disillusion to their kids?

If a parent does their job right, the kids will want to do their own part.

Yep. Any woman can put a name on a birth certificate and it is hell and back to correct “mistakes”.

The best term would likely be “Additional-House Winner” when we get to such insane unnecessary levels of wealth.

Uh, he’s not cool with his kids being brought to a place where an errant bomb or rebel attack may mean death while he is a continent and ocean away.

We pretend morals and integrity are “important”.

“They were tearfully begging me to support the nominee,” Cruz said. “They trudged through the snow; they made phone calls. Their view was that they were horrified by a Hillary Clinton presidency.”

See, the longer I hear things like this the longer I tend to lean toward the idea that all this “intersectionality” is just the complex reaction to a base-simple problem where the problem is so essential and deeply-embedding in every facet of our lives it is unthinkable to question it.

Not quite, but if you haven’t heard of Log Horizon you may enjoy it quite a bunch. Another “trapped in a MMO” anime, though with a lot more focus on the characters/players actually creating a world and society from that calamity. I wasn’t that impressed with SAO, but LH has become quite a favorite of mine.

The NYT was instrumental in ensuring this is Trump v. Clinton. They could have gone with more rational and electable candidates, but their company line was status-quo from day-1. And their status quo isn’t Paul Ryan but it certainly is Donald Trump.

Sometimes the only place you get honest liberalism is where no other liberal is there to “police” what is and is not “liberal”.