You’re making some huge assumptions about the quality of sex and health education that those kids have had access to. It’s easy to point a finger and say, well you should be more responsible, but the reality is that adolescents are still learning and developing. So even with great education, they make bad decisions. They won’t have adult brains until their early to mid 20s. And there’s no reason why those decisions should ruin lives, when modern medicine can resolve the dilemma in minutes.

In other words, you’re making an argument for much better and more widely available sex and health education. Which religious types are likely to oppose. Can’t have it both ways- either the kids are fully informed and made an error, or their guardians failed them and set them on a track with a veil of ignorance.

That cap came from AG Greg Abbott, after he received a settlement in 1984 that paid him $8.9MM.

He’s an awful, awful person.

Three - they’re heavily invested in commercial real estate and need bodies in suites to throw more gold on their hoard

Oh, I thought it was like “bomb ass pussy,” but your way is also a way

Hero drops a card on the bodies of his fallen enemies

“Have a Hallmark moment, assholes”

Don’t carry a knife unless you know how to use it in close quarters. Otherwise you’re just giving someone a knife to use against you.

Chemical deterrents are probably the better way to go, especially if you practice with it, ie know the arc distance and how to aim.

Hollywood should start making movie after movie where the protagonist loses a loved one to some fucking asinine Republican laws, and then just goes on a vengeance spree.

Build a whole new MCU-style universe just around the backwards-ass shitstain policies coming out of these freeloader states, and a whole cast of kid-diddling fuckwads who are taken out by the wrath of righteous anger. People would watch that shit.

Uh, yeah. That’s what marketing is. Where do you think undergrads will be trying to go now? If a top student had to pick between CalTech, MIT, and Harvard, and MIT is tuition free, it’s a no brainer.

I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m just pointing out the masturbatory nature of MIT’s announcement given their endowment and the peanuts it will cost them.

Thank you!

They’ve got a $24.6 Billion endowment; the tuition costs are negligible. This is basically a marketing ploy.

Well fucking look it up yourself. If you haven’t clued in, I’m describing my own experience. You think I’m posting the ECSI letter and correspondence from my undergrad in the early 2000s here for you?

The pandemic “HEROES” act (extreme fucking irony) in 2022 brought all defaulted student loans to “current.” And because they’re Federal loans, the government can still attempt to collect. And they tack on 20+ years’ interest. So for a 3k Perkins loan from 2001, they want an additional $2,750 in interest. And if you MADE PAYMENTS in the past, quelle surprise, they have no record of that.

And instead of being able to talk to the actual Dept of Education, they’ve placed collection agencies like ECSI as their front of house. ECSI will say, only the school can dismiss these charges. So you contact your school, the school expresses incredulity, reaches out to ECSI to tell them the debt has been written off, and then ECSI (aka DoEd) says, nuh-uh.

It’s a system designed to resolve nothing while putting people over a cheese grater from loans they didn’t even need from 2 decades ago.

Do you not know how deeply entrenched Biden is in student loans? He is directly the reason they cannot be expunged in bankruptcy.

One of the few things his administration did during his Presidency was to dig up old loans (like 20 YEARS old) that have already been written off by the schools as bad debt, and SENT THEM BACK TO COLLECTIONS, which are masquerading as the Dept of Education. He made a point to spend time finding vulnerable, overeducated, underpaid young people and threw them under the bus for debt that already went through 7 years of hitting credit reports. And, again, which the schools themselves have already written off.

So yeah, he’s not that guy.

People should give Kansas a LOT more shit than they do.

Narrator: he was, in fact, an inmate of a minimum security prison

They’re saying Boo-urns!

Jesus Christmas. He looks like a Harkonnen from Dune.

Not that I’m advocating this, but one of the reasons America’s media has basically stopped covering any unrest in France is that French protestors have found that fire inspires remarkably rapid government compliance.

Similarly if Corporations are people, physical action seems to be one of few feedback loops left to reverse their constant and invasive overreach, as they line our government officials’ pockets. Nonviolent direct action apparently falls on deaf ears, as seen by BLM, Flint Michigan, Dakota Access Pipeline protests, etc. The State’s “law enforcement” has no such compunctions.

53% of white women voted for Trump. Your “America won’t vote for a woman” argument doesn’t hold water.

Americans won’t vote for specific women, sure. Namely Hillary Clinton, and Kamala Harris. The fact that they are women is not why they lost so cataclysmically; they ran platforms that were deeply unengaging to Democrat and Independent voters. Worse, they tried to appeal to Republicans, which only underscored how out-of-touch and unprepared they were to hold the office. Moreover, neither of those specific women, nor the DNC that backed them seems to have learned anything from their continual failures, which, again, only deepens the divide among Democrats’ necessary coalitions.

Their failures are a function of being bad at post-Obama politics, and bad at running for the highest office in the land. It’s not because they are women.

“So I said humans aren’t bilaterally symmetrical and some people really took offense to that.”