So go shoot somebody on the “other side”. Tying yourself up in the woods makes no sense.

I get what you’re saying but it’s not actually that kind of all or nothing situation. I’ve never met a person that would only do FB or nothing at all. Everyone is browsing FB on their phone anyway so skip the middleman and start a group message thread. Easy solution that takes almost no effort or adjustment. Nothing will ever improve if people like you and I refuse to change our habits even slightly.

Hey that’s not fair, she’s definitely banging Trump. That’s more than nothing.

Sadly I have to stay on it for friends and music reasons

No you don’t

Medicare for all is the best option anywhere near the table. It’s not perfect but you’re also minimizing the impact it would have on people. Being able to seek medical care without the risk of financial ruin is a fucking massive step forward, even if there are other steps needed.

Unless you’re 48 and all these people have early heart attacks I don’t think that is very likely

Give the man a slurpee and a high five, not a DUI. What the fuck

According to him he can declassify documents just by thinking about it. No wrist flicking required. Of course, that only applies to documents stored in the bathroom on his golf course.

They’re edited files that heavily favor Republicans. No doubt about it

Being afraid of interacting with them is what they want. Don’t let them win before anything even happens. To use your example, if Trump did shoot Mamdani on 5th Avenue then it is our responsibility as citizens to respond appropriately. If we can’t decide that something like that is a red line then we might as well stop talking about resistance in any form. Don’t go down that path.

Like the absolutely easiest, most accurate way to tell if someone is trans is to just ask the person in question.

So, are you one of them Trans gingers or what?

Like that?

Hmm, ok

What are you trying to say? I’m not sure how average ages are supposed to factor into a discussion about pedophiles.

I don’t think a 20 year old dating a 17 year old falls into that category but it would fall under the legal definition you’re referring to in many states. That’s the problem with drawing arbitrary lines, you usually end up labeling some things incorrectly. That doesn’t mean you get rid of the line but understanding the context is still important.

That being said, there is no amount of context that will lessen the creepiness of a 50+ year old man serially preying upon 15 year old girls. That’s disgusting and I find Megyn Kelly’s invocation of this defense to be indefensible. She should be ashamed of herself if she were capable of feeling shame.

Is she wrong about that last part? Clearly she’s deflecting and full of shit in general but Biden did have 4 years to do something about this. Why didn’t he?

That sort of teaching is incredibly common whether you think it should be or not. If you have kids I’m sure you’ve done it yourself many times. “You ate Timmy’s candy so now you have to give your candy to Timmy” is not fundamentally different from what I said above.

I don’t think I would phrase it that way but if you make a career out of knowingly getting murderers off the hook then yeah, you deserve bad things. There’s lots of people who deserve things, both good and bad, that never get those things. Being deserving of something is not a guarantee that you will get it.

I don’t know, it seems pretty fair to me to say that if you prevent justice from being done for an act committed against someone else then you deserve to have that act directed at you, at least in general terms. That sort of consequential thinking is one of the first things we teach our kids. Why should the answer change just because the subject matter does? It seems pretty reasonable to assume that this lawyer did not genuinely believe Cuomo was innocent. Perhaps “deserve” isn’t quite the right word but I think “fuck around and find out” certainly applies, and when you summarize that phrase it expresses pretty much the same sentiment as the word deserving.

This is all well known dating back to at least 2016 when they fucked Sanders over. Those two things are directly related.

I think there’s a significant difference between someone who caught a case for having an ounce on them and a guy busted with enough weed to fill a swimming pool, regardless of my personal feelings about marijuana. Framing it the way you are makes it sound like he’s the former and that doesn’t capture the scope of what he was up to.

Either way this guy is clearly a shit head. If you want to make the argument that all marijuana charges should be pardoned and expunged then I suggest you find a different poster boy for the campaign because this guy is not helping your case.