Don’t be silly. For a first world country, America deals with a tremendous amount of real crime. We need standing police forces, and they need to be armed.

the disgrace was the families suing in the first place. Just because a few people on comment boards and social media feel bad doesn’t mean you can do whatever the fuck you want legally. They hired ambulance chasing lawyers, turned down a hefty generous settlement offer, and then lost on it. PR? Fuck that. Don’t file…

I never said I want her to take off the hijab. I’m merely saying that she, along with all women on this earth, should be able to choose without fear of being on the wrong side of a culture that will berate and ostracize them (best case scenario) and kill them outright (worst case scenario). When the “choice” is a…

At the same time, she’s bothered that fencing requires her daughter to shake hands with male referees and travel without a male guardian.

Bullshit. I don’t have to respect a culture that demeans other humans and treats them as chattel. GTFO with that shit.

I know you’re leftist as all get out (which I respect) so you’ll probably disagree, but honestly what we’re going to get is basically just Obama 2.0, except her pet cause will be women’s issues instead of racial justice.

Mother’s do this for live daughters, so it’s not that. My concerns (which don’t effect the legality) are about the child’s emotional well being. Is the child going to be a surrogate for bio mom? How will they handle a child that is completely different from bio mom if that happens? Is there an extended family or…

I don’t think it’s the “relative surrogate” thing that people are weirded out by; it’s the fact that the daughter is dead and may not actually have consented to or wanted this at all.

For me, it’s more that it’s without clear consent from the daughter. Yes, I would think it was slightly weird for a daughter to ask a mom to be a surrogate simply because of the age issue, but this woman is dead and there’s no explicit proof that this is what she wanted. It feels more like the mom wanting a grandchild…

Of being a member of society is to not be a giant douche-canoe.

My best friend and college roommate for three years is a conservative, and was a member of the college Republicans. He was (and is) an exemplary conservative and one whom I wish the party was full of.