What was interesting to me about the Spaniards I know that hated Franco and fascism to intently is that they’re not even remotely “radical” (not anarchists, not socialists nor communists) - they were just regular folk (albeit on the more intellectual end of the spectrum). One of those friends would try to draw me into…

Thanks for the reply. I’ve visited one person who was in the hospital and intubated, and they said they had to increase the sedative because she kept waking up and freaking out chewing on the tube. Why wasn’t she properly sedated in the first place? I’m guessing because she was developmentally disabled and completely…

RIP Deadspin. Long live Defector (even if it’s behind a paywall). Fuck spamfeller.

Bortles?  There’s a name I never thought I’d hear again, lol...

Even getting intubated is a horror show. Are they sedated do they don’t freak out and try to yank the tube out?

To the person who replied to me in the greys: Yes, of course other people who didn’t know her and her wonderful personality probably shunned or treated her badly. That’s not the fucking point I was making, and I state specifically at the end of my post that we need to put an end to that shit. Jesus fucking christ,…

Idiocy without end.

There’s a great scene in SLC Punk! (that doesn’t seem to be on youtube) where SteveO is giving his dad shit about the porsche he drives. “It’s made by Volkswagen - Volks Wagen ‘the car of the people’”. Nazi nationalist automobiles...

Yeah, right now hospitals themselves are a high-risk area for contracting covid (among other things - like MRSA or c-dif). I would think you’d want to be vaccinated prior to going to one, at this point...

My mother was born very sick and nearly died. She also had only two fingers on her right hand and was blind in one eye (this may or may not have been due to thalidomide or some other drugs her mother was taking). Thing is, it was completely normal for her, and it was completely normal to us kids growing up. We never…

That’s a fair point. I just think the notion of any slack-jawed yokel filing a flimsy lawsuit against someone seeking medical care would be anathema to those who want all the power, as they’re getting cut out of the loop, so to speak.

Absolutely. It’s like in football, when a player retaliates against the player that hit him in a cheap shot, he’s the one who gets penalized.

The large corporations won’t give a fuck because fascist governments subsidize the companies they like (which is part of the reason they’re so eager to kiss republican ass).

Which is crazy because all the Spaniards I know fucking hated Franco and fascism in general. They are extremely tuned in to what is or isn’t fascist over there. Americans could learn al lot if they ever bothered to listen to them.

The degree to which anti-abortion “protesters” are allowed to harass, intimidate, and even physically interfere with people just trying to get into these clinics, regardless of why they’re going there, will never cease to amaze me. Most of that behavior should be illegal. I used to see posts by someone who escorted…

I mean, when did dems do anything substantial to retaliate in such a fashion at any point during trumps reign of corruption and ur-fascism? The impeachment trials? lol. No, those assholes know for a fact dems will do nothing of the sort. How has “going high” worked out for them?

The fascists have weaseled and cheated their way into power. No one took us seriously when we on the actual left were raising the alarms. The party that’s supposed to oppose them is full of people that have a vested interest in not noticing that bipartisanship is fucking dead, because fascism kills anything remotely…

I like the gist of this idea. The plan you laid out would never fly - not on a state or federal level - as both republican and democratic politicians would shoot it down. But the general idea of putting the financial burden, at minimum, on these forced-birth fucks is solid and could actually be a deterrent.…

That’s a fair point. My problem is with people who seem to think voting is all that needs to happen, when it’s clearly not enough. Manchin and Sinema aren’t the only ones who suck, either. If you managed to make them irrelevant, there’s still going to be some asshole who doesn’t want to do the right thing, most likely…

Ethical questions aside, I can see this becoming an argument of some sort at some point. Given their mythical thinking on this subject (or in general) they probably think you can just plop the embryo/fetus/whatever into an artificial womb.