Now whether this is good or bad is up for discussion, but they are perfectly within their rights to create a process for themselves to determine the candidate.

The historic kind? The kind that acknowledges how our government works? The kind that recognizes there’s nuance, that we don’t have a straight up democracy because trusting our fellow citizens with that level of control is kind of insane? I mean, if anything, the check/balance system helped ensure that we didn’t…

I don’t actually trust what Wasserman-Schultz will do with the party. So while you may agree that the people in these positions of power will necessarily pick better leaders than a populist front might, I’d disagree. Leaders selected by virtue of their status, ascendancy, and wealth are more often right-wing. These…

wait explain it to me again i don’t understand how my country works

I agree entirely about superdelegates. You know what the primary process isn’t? A democracy.

There are many things in the American government that are “voter suppression.” The president can veto a bill even if it passed Congress. Supreme court justices can hand down rulings that reject or re-interpret a bill. Congress can override the president. It’s all checks and balances, any of whom could easily be…

When Wasserman-Schultz overturned Obama’s ban on lobbying within the Democratic Party’s own primaries, she quietly and effectively undermined what Obama was able to do in salvaging his own party’s electoral process.

I am 100% confident that my husband doesn’t even know what is a tinder. He’s like a 65 year old man trapped in a 33 year old’s body. But with the 65 year old’s jeans.

Reminder: when you say you are against feminism, then you are simply saying you do not believe women should be equal to men.

Retirement living for the generation that will never be able to retire!

It’s the Emperor’s New Cake.

Ah, shit. I can’t believe I missed this. I love Bonnie Raitt with the fire of a thousand suns.

Uh, if I’m pressed, I would have to say it’s a hatred of women, combined with a overwhelming bias in favor of the powerful over the non-powerful (which is probably also related to the hatred of women). There’s probably some just-world fallacy mixed in, where a lot of people are unwilling to believe something as…

pretty sure wendy’s thing is to do a terribly wrong hot take so she gets attention, then reverses it and pretends to be all remorseful so people are all like “thanks for seeing the light wendy now you woke too”, and then she counts her money and cackles and goes onto jezebel and looks in the greys to find another…

Kids aren’t blank slates, each child’s situation is different and they have different needs, as far as I can see parenting is about making sure each child’s needs are met.

Natural childbirth is not what is meant by “natural parenting”.

I hate the idea that those of us who want natural childbirth are crazy naturopaths. I love medicine and science and I know that if I undergo major surgery that isn’t really necessary, I open myself up to a greater risk of infection. Childbirth isn’t something we need medical interventions for in MOST cases. Obviously…

So as a scientist-type person who has also worked at a hippy-dippy natural foods store... I don’t actually think naturopathy is the devil. That being said, it is no substitute for Western medicine or your primary care doctor. I believe that it can have a supplementary relationship with those things, if that’s what…

This couple’s decisions were seriously bad. That said - and I say this as someone who is a full believer in western medicine - I don’t think outright banning naturopaths from treating children is a solution either. Just like with any doctor, there are good and bad eggs amongst the naturopathic community. The good…