This aligns with my thoughts on how progressives should resettle in red states until we can get rid of the electoral college. SOMEONE should do that. I’m sure as fuck not going to, but SOMEONE should.

Well then! Shut it down, we have this prescient, informative, insightful political analysis backed by sound reasoning and evidence to guide us!

I got an offensive email from an aunt (who is DEAD TO ME) about how if “Shaniqua had wanted to make $15 an hour she should have made better choices.” Yes. That was the email’s wording. My industry tanked in the crash - there were THOUSANDS of RIFs (eventually I was included in 2010) and since then I have been working…

Plus many people don’t realize how ridiculously low the current minimum wage is, so when they hear $15 an hour they go “HOLY SHIT!!! That’s over double what they are currently making!!! There’s no way our economy can absorb that kind of raise.”

You all can talk to these people. I don’t have the patience and will probably call them idiots or punch them and that gets us exactly nowhere.

$7.25 minimum wage in my state.

Thank you for your opinion. You’re wrong about the definition of treason, but thank you for your opinion just the same. It’s good to have a diversity of opinions here in the comments, even very very wrong ones.

Yes but as shitty as that would be, just getting to hear the Trumpflakes react to President Ryan would be worth it. So so worth it. Especially after his little recorded conversation.

Seriously!! The whole “Women be baby-crazy” narrative has never played out in my own life. Once all my male friends hit 27, they became very serious about finding a host, while my female friends of the same age were either ambivalent about kids or wanted to wait til their 30s.

No there’s no one perfect way for everyone, but you should read the Feminine Mystique. So many women were conscripted into marriage and motherhood to the point they drank themselves into oblivion or they wrecked havoc on their children or they up bitter and resentful. That wasn’t a great option either.

As my doctor explained it, at age 35, your odds of having a child with Down’s Syndrome are greater than your odds of having a miscarriage due to amniocentesis, so that’s the age that doctor’s start recommending an amnio. That’s where the magic number 35 came from, but people have run with it and made it seem like 35…

My sister got married in her early 20s and had kids right away, despite the fact that she wanted to do all those things (it was a combination of being swept off her feet by the guy and having grown up in an extremely conservative religious culture where that kind of thing was expected). Now, in her mid-30s, she’s…

That is my plan, people telling me to settle down, I’ll settle down when my freedom is boring, but man, is it fun,

The way I see it, the narrative in the 80s and 90s about women was “can I have it all?” Now, it’s “do I WANT it all?”

I intentionally waited until my mid-30s to get married and have a kid. I spent my 20s being poor, doing awesome internships, dating, living abroad, and taking jobs that were incompatible with having a family. Plus I got to see a lot of relationships implode so I could see the red flags long before I got emotionally…

I’ve always wondered, how many people before the last couple decades didn’t actually want to have kids, be mothers, but it was the only option available to them so that’s what they did. I bet there are quite a few women who feel more comfortable with the choice to not have kids now, than there were even back in the…

I want to move to the Southwest and live in the countryside. There are many wild animals everywhere and I love that. I don’t get ranchers who think that wolves are “predators.” Yellowstone is their home, they hunt what they eat, while those ranchers could get up and move anywhere farther away from wolves and other…

What is it about farmer mentality that nothing short of immediate profit seems to have any impression at all? If there’s a more myopic, solely self-interested group, I can’t find it. That they can’t absorb the cost of a couple of sheep to preserve a beautiful, rare, noble animal that’s got about 15 years of human…

I hate people sometimes.

So, this is basically Fox News saying, “**** it, we’re going full Infowars!” in response to how much marketshare they’re losing to the conservative feverswamps, right?