But when has the draft ever discouraged the war hawks?  They always manage to find loopholes to get their own kids out of serving, even if it means paying off quack doctors to claim they have bone spurs.

“starting"? Dude, where have you been.

Arrest was super Effective!

“your President”, along with yesterday and “your favorite President, me”? These are things people seriously need to watch out for. He’s starting to talk like a dictator. The American people seriously need to worry about what he might do in the future. He’s already bypassed Congress multiple times to get what he…

This is the correct take. The draft itselfs is repugnant and Draft Dodging—especially for immoral conflicts like literally everything we have been engaged in since WWII—is a moral obligation.

After a teenager pointed out that part of Feinstein’s duties were listening to her constituents, Feinstein asked how old she was. “I’m 16, I can’t vote,” she said.

well she is a congressperson for real now that she has been put on a target list by a deranged Coast Guard member

Heading there in May to make final decisions on where exactly to live, etc. Seriously looking into Utrecht. 

This kid is suffering from a bad case of Backpfeifengesicht 

Tucker Carlson is one of the very worst people on earth. Based on this clip, Bregman also seems like an arrogant douche (but then, he is Dutch).

Unfortunately it’s much, much deeper of a problem than that - the institution is corrupt internally and externally and has been for a long, long time (it’s current incarnation really took shape during the Nixon years). I wrote my MA thesis more or less on the prison system and how it got to where it is. It’s…

Folks wandering the Pearl District are pretty clueless when it comes to the rest of the city. (sorry Pearl District people, but it’s true)

Haven’t seen it and will definitely try to watch it. May not make it through if it triggers me, though.

I was also in elementary school. I got into big trouble for making jokes (I didn’t understand) about it. I remember my mom talking to me about why I shouldn’t make those jokes and that Lorena was being abused. I distinctly remember her saying “your father is lucky I didn’t defend myself that way.”

The same Brazil that heavily sponsored European immigration during the 19th and early 20th century with a openly talked goal to whiten the population, yeah that guy

Honestly, it’s the other way around. Can’t speak for other people of course, but it got a lot easier to maintain healthy habits once I very consciously stopped beating myself up about weight and focused on “oh hey my body can do this cool thing, that’s neat & I want to do more of it.” Eating for more variety instead…

Just a reminder that marriage is essentially an institution invented so that a man can legally rape a woman as much as he wants. In fact, 1993 was the same year that all 50 states finally had legal protections against spousal rape. The idea of a husband “raping” his wife was essentially laughed off. Our society still…

The revolution will not be televised.

Brazil, eh? Brazil you say? The Brazil that was the last country in the western world to abolish slavery and “imported” ~40% of the total number of slaves brought to the Americas? That Brazil? Really?  Hmm....