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I agree with that. And I’d add to that inequality/tax evasion - thanks to tax havens - which can only be solved on the international stage.

fun fact: I have a close family friend who attended one of Trump’s weddings (I guess maybe Ivanna?). he was the date at the time of someone who had... whatever connections you needed to get an invite. he said it was the most overt display of pointless, tasteless expenditure he’s ever seen, and yet the food wasn’t even…

The NRA should be up in arms about this!!

Agree we live in a society where many people are shitty to each other and it’s not just straight men vs. women. I have a male friend who was basically raped by a woman he had dated casually a couple times. He was recovering from a broken ankle and she came over to his place and got him really drunk, then gave him BJ…

Patriarchy has always hurt both men and women. And men who have been abused should absolutely speak up about it, and people should pay the consequences for being predators. It bothers me a bit that you state “compartmentalization” for why men die earlier, which seems wholly unsubstantiated. First of all, heart disease…

Please donate to Doug Jones, y’all.

US allies are seriously disturbed by this, btw - there’s renewed calls to reassess military and trade agreements with the US, and to potentially reach out more to China, because it’s obvious that under Trump there would likely be zero of the traditional cooperation that existed under every other leader. It shows how…

I work in a foreign government, and I can absolutely guarantee this happens - politicians and high level civil servants do this when having negotiations with each other, for goodness sake, of course they massively over prepare for meeting the President of the USA. Trump, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to give a shit,…

This may cheer you up: Maine SoS Matt Dunlap (who is the real deal and I wish he’d run for governor) this week has sued the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity — Kobach’s corrupt little voter-suppression venture that Trump quickly set up — for essentially being a bogus, partisan effort that is…

I get why the justice system has to be objective, but I am not a court of law. I’m an individual who has to sometimes make difficult choices to protect myself or other women. I’m not obligated to be impartial. I’m going to err on the side of believing victims because, the unpleasant truth is,men actually do this shit…

The core of Democratic monetary policy is still center to center-right, leftover from the “Third Way” Clinton era re-calibration, so I’m not surprised they’re making this argument. The gap between the now nearly extinct moderate Republicans and most Democrats on this stuff was never large, it was more a matter of if…

Well, there’s always the front cargo “door” on the C-5 Galaxy and the US military has a bunch of them:

Of course you are correct. I heard clips of the Trump’s visit to China, and it sounds fucking pathetic. All these Trump supporters screaming about USA being number 1 should be ashamed of themselves. What Trump said over there can be boiled down to groveling, for example on the US - China trade deficit “ I don’t…

To be fair, it’s really hard to reach the top of the DeVos family pyramid without airplanes and helicopters.

I voted for Trump, I can make stupid mistakes like that because I live in New York State.

One of the things I noticed as I was growing up in Southwestern PA was how religious belief changed from area to area. The televangelists were the big thing things and people were “buying in” to arm-chair spirituality in droves. It was something Genesis lampooned with their song “Jesus He Knows Me”

Or in another sense, for these people, the ideology is the religion - fealty is paid with faith as the only true arbiter of worthiness. You don’t support Mao? Die. You don’t support Stalin? Die. You don’t support Hitler? Die.

Oh, I was specifically responding to Abbot’s statement: his position that embracing God will enable the peace that he believes can only come from god... Rather than by reducing the number of weapons available or otherwise altering the rules for their acquisition... Its an asinine position to take, Religious or not.…

“whose policies in turn ensure a steady and returning stream of “customers” (inmates).”