"It's pretty racist to assume that minority races can't write their own new stories."

Yeah, because that's exactly what I said, dick. GTFO with that. Your comment only makes my point for me.

Kids got taught cursive at my daughter's school.

*shrugs

If the character's race is somehow relevant to the plot that's one thing, but if not I don't think it should ever matter how something was done before.

"Make your own movie staring minority characters. Dont remake a movie that starred white characters."

The majority of art in western civilization has been about white people, so other folks are just going to have to sit and wait for new stories to be told in order to participate? That doesn't seem like the right answer to me at all.

"Are we still pretending that DeSantis bound and gagged these people at gunpoint and tossed them on the plane that travel to Martha's Vineyard?"

How much right to refuse do you think they had? How much right to refuse do you think they think they had? How much do you think they understood what was happening to them and why?

"the so-called border-search exception"

IIRC the "border" per this legislation is defined as being anything within 100 miles of the actual physical border, which accounts for about 70% of the US population.

"My expectation would be if we were to allow open borders, then it's understood that these workers are not illegal...and employers can't take advantage of them any longer."

That's exactly right, and there's a reason that's non-obvious to most. Migrant workers have a vast network of underground support in one another. They share information about how to make it in the US. They help one another find jobs, housing, childcare. They teach one another how to gain access to whatever services are available to them. These people are capital O Organized, and if we give them legal status the first thing they're going to do is unionize across every industry in which they've gained a foothold. It could spark a renewal in support for unions across the country. Everybody that has a stake in the current status quo is scared to death of that.

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That's crazy.

"But it's not a time to complain about it."

Of course not. It's a sign of the Eschaton. These freaks celebrate that ----.

I heard estimates that this stunt cost Florida tax payers $12M. I wonder if they mind funding his presidential campaign like that.

"Anyway, "Buffalo Chips" ~ Really?"

You haven't lived until you've attended a buffalo chip throwing contest, informally sponsored by Ranier beer, in the middle of the winter in the mountains of Wyoming.

Attended, not participated in. It's an important distinction.

"It's a very useful tactic to help boost their already successful drive to replace "the People" with the Big Corporations as the controllers of governments around the world."

So you're saying that non-Christians aren't smart enough to know when they're being manipulated?

"Fact is, 15 weeks is a very popular threshold"

So don't have an abortion after 15 weeks if its such a great number to you.

"Boaz does this daily here."

No kink shaming.

"We'll keep committing election fraud until the Dems admit it's a problem!"

Hush, you don't want to encourage them by giving their behavior imprimatur of legitimacy. They're generally not quite sophisticated enough to appreciate that brand of subversion.

"Hack grifters are the tRUMP sad clown people, not the Lincoln project. Poor little Q."

I have to agree with Bellend on this one. Trump and the Lincoln Project are fighting over rights to the same grift.

"To me, one of the most bizarre events in American political history is the fact that the guy who was in charge on 9/11 campaigned for re-election on the idea that he was the best one to protect us from a terrorist attack. And people bought it."

Bush voters I spoke with at the time said one of two things, that Democrats didn't have the intestinal fortitude to wage war, and alternatively, that it was Bush's mess so he's got to be the one to clean it up.

"that's about it"

You forgot about King's Cross Station. You must be old.

"Sure they are."

I saw coverage of at least one article in Russia arguing that Putin's error was in claiming this wasn't a war and that he has to begin conscription and escalation in order to win. That argument was out flanking him from the right.

"The GOP has lived on the premise that abortion rights MUST BE left up to the states, not the federal government, remember?"

Yeah, that was always the dishonest position because they knew that it would take decades to be able to lay the groundwork for a nation wide ban. So they lulled people into a false sense of security because it let people believe "it can't happen here" while they worked diligently to get us where we are today.

It's the intellectually honest move. If abortion is murder then state boundaries shouldn't be a reason to not prevent a life from being taken.

"When you're a Conservative, you think Kings eat at McDonald's!"

Sounds like MB is rubbing off on him with the idea that Americans should have to suffer like the poverty stricken in the third world before they receive any assistance at all. It's quite the Christian perspective these days.

"These tap rooms that allow customers to pour their own beer are now charging for all that foam! Genius business model, IMO."

Back when I was bartending I would also work with the beverage tech who would make sure the kegs and fountains were working properly. There's a lot of loss on beer when the bar doesn't stay on top of keeping the lines clean. And most bars don't, for the record. It's a lot of work. As a result I rarely, if ever, order a tap beer when I go out.

"Trying to tie the ability to read English with a level of intelligence or being informed is either stupid or uninformed."

That's an interesting take. My great grandfather was illiterate. He held down a job as a brick layer through the depression and worked on the Empire State Building. He never argued that literacy wouldn't have made being well informed, or that it wouldn't have made taking advantage of his innate intelligence, much easier. In fact that is just the opposite thinking he imparted on his children.

"How did they get fooled?"

They drink their own Kool-Aid.