it can go away. There is no guarantee that your employer will keep you on it as long as you want to be on it. There is no guarantee that you’ll keep your job as long as you want to! There’s no guarantee that providing this healthcare doesn’t become expensive enough that they end up laying you off to preserve it for…

And that’s not counting people with healthplans that are so worthless they may as well not have it. My friend’s family got hit by strep, and their copays came out to over $500 for doctor visits, tests and antibiotics. What the fuck is even the point?

Well, as much as they want to put those red lines back down they still want to be able to take their pick of “the good ones”.

Steven’s true power is to give his opponents 10 years worth of therapy in a single battle.

Tangent... I saw some hand wringing hack piece on The Daily Beast, suggesting the conservative backlash to this turd were a blueprint for Republicans to save the country (and their party’s image). But it’s about two or three or four years too late for that.

I would be curious what the outcome of saying “fuck it” and making every choice to pull down the system? Regardless of the mechanical negatives? Is there a mechanical fail state if you stop making enough profits for your company? Or does it just make the game harder when you do the right thing even if it reduces your…

The root word for “atrocious” is “atrocity”. It is bad, foolish and disrespectful to lie like this. It is not akin to an atrocity.

The Republicans who are running (or look like they plan to) are belligerent narcissists with track records of racism and LGBTQ hate almost as bad as Trump’s. The one’s who aren’t running are craven cowards to afraid of Trump’s hoard will descend upon them for their disloyalty.

Context is everything in language, and your defense of this word exploits varied contexts in way that’s pithy and in bad faith. I’ve seen you around here, and you’re frankly better than that.

There are other more accurate terms you can use. Like demented, deranged or senile. The best ‘r’ word to direct at Trump of course, is racist.

I’m not a big fan of Harris, but “atrocious” is a maybe too strong a word to describe her response. “Poor”, “weak”, “unfortunate”, “awkward”, maybe even “bad” or “clueless”. If she’d been the one who said the word, maybe “atrocious” would be the right word. Even then I’d probably go for “tasteless”, “crass” or “deeply…

I will never understand the refusal by some on the left to acknowledge that Julian Assange is a bad person, with bad motivations who has done bad things.

Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden were “useful idiots”, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. They had genuine concerns about what they saw, and they thought they were doing the right thing. There are other people they should have given their information to, but they were snookered and taken advantage of.

I’m not a cop but I’ve been “disrespected or taunted” by people walking down the street. Does that mean I can go on Fox for my own pity party?

Probably going against the grain around here, but I think the 30 to 50 feral hogs guy had a real point. No joke, feral hogs are a big problem across the rural midwest. The state and federal authorities are failing the people of that region on that issue as well as skyrocketing rural crime rates and understaffed rural…

Amazing stuff. Looking at more of his finished stuff, it would also seem one of his coping mechanisms is to really focus on having high saturation and contrast with his colors. It gives his work an uncommon vibrancy.

There are more people pushing for large scale bans and mandatory buybacks than you realize/admit. It is a minority position even among progressives, but so is the “no regulation ever” crowd among conservatives.

But that “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” crowd is in the minority, even among gun owners. There are a lot of conflicted gun owners out there, and gun culture is not as shallow as it’s often discussed and portrayed. There are a lot of survivors of domestic abuse, violent crime and sexual violence who own guns. There are a lot…

It is a fair criticism that most reporters covering guns do in fact know nothing about guns. If we want to have any chance to affect change on this issue, we have to do a better job of understanding guns and gun culture. It is not all red necks and MAGA chuds who roll their eyes after every mass shooting.

Yea, let’s rub it in the faces of the poor that they are completely dependent on a rampaging corporate giant for their basic survival. Fuck them, amirite?