This. I’m so sick of this trend of ignoring, denying, and burying immigration issues because they concern Africans illegally crossing into the EU, instead of Mexicans or Central Americans illegally crossing into the US.

Exactly. You would think Winona Ryder was rich enough that she wouldn’t need to shoplift either, right? This article sounds a little bit like “Rich people don’t commit crimes! Why would they? They don’t need to, because they’re rich!” Which is weird, wrong, entirely nonsensical and dumb, and about one step away from…

So much this, with the “No mother would ever do that” sentiment being horrifying and sexist. Part of believing in gender equality is facing up to the fact that women are just as capable of being monsters as men are.

There’s such a huge grey area between ‘not perfect’ and ‘awful.’ Seeing as there’s no such thing as a perfect parent, all parents who aren’t actually awful fall into that grey area, probably including you. I see where you’re coming from there, but if you’re in the grey area, don’t forget that the ‘awful’ end of the…

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And that doesn’t even take into account any of the money saved for WIC (which I believe a large number of teen mothers use) and other assorted welfare programs. Or the tax money the state will be making on all of those people who now AREN’T stuck in low-wage, dead end jobs, because they DIDN’T have to drop out of high…

I WOULD SELL MY HOUSE, BUY A GODDAMN WINNEBAGO, AND FOLLOW GWAR ON TOUR EVERYWHERE THEY GO LIKE THE WORST KIND OF DESPERATE GROUPIE.

I once heard a church sermon on a similar concept- the reason why bread and wine is a christian sacrament, is because that’s what a bunch of friends would typically eat when they were hanging out. If jesus had lived today, our descendents would take communion with pizza and cheap beer. It was pretty great.

Even then, I’d put money on the only reason why vegetarianism actually works as a weight loss diet is that people tend to stick with it for their entire lives.

The church I grew up in had a family with a few celiac folks. They provided gluten-free rice crackers along with the regular bread (usually that excessively sweet King’s Hawaiian bread) for communion. Along with un-fermented grape juice. Because that’s just how Methodists are, apparently.

“Love the sinner, hate the sin” is pretty awful, but it’s maybe a step above “hate the sinner, treat the sinner like shit, tell the sinner they deserve to burn in hell, banish the sinner from our super-special club FOREVER.” I mean, baby steps, right?

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I’m not an expert or anything, but as I understand it:

Did you just write grimdark fanfic about a Kitchenette article? Holy shit wow. You’re my favorite commenter of the day.

Seemingly-reliable narrators that turn out to be EVIL THE WHOLE TIME are just as bad as cheaters.

Right? The man spoke a grand total of 5 distinct words in the entire movie, and it was PERFECT.

I think I follow their logic here:

Tbh, yes. That’s exactly what I want.

I’d say since this cop beat the shit out of a white dude and knocked him unconcious and got ‘punished’ with a few three-day weekends, it’s pretty clear that cop privilege is a notch higher than white privilege.

That, and it was at the very end of a very long fight where he was running around and punching many murderbots. I think the idea is that he was pretty worn out and beat up by that point.