The delegates all predicated their votes to make it look like Hillary had already won before the elections even started

Democrats aren’t spineless. they are operating in a world where republicans own the majority of the media and will repeat whatever they say. For example, The democrats lost a lot of local elections last cycle because republican media scared everyone into thinking crime rates were soaring even though they’re at all time lows. Republicans have gerrymandered so well that they have to be extremely careful or risk losing even in states where they have the majority of voters.

Republicans have been playing a long game starting with Regan and they are in their end game now.

HIPAA protections are federal. Planned Parenthood won’t just turn over records that are protected by HIPAA.

Our democracy is so broken that we have to choose between this shitbag and a wannabe dictator. And we really do have to vote for this shitbag unfortunately. Our system sucks.

They don’t do it for alcohol. Kids eventually become adults and old enough to make their own choices and decide to buy alcohol not. This law would ban people born too late from ever being allowed to buy.

I wonder What all they’re including in that count. I’m guessing it includes the fire and and gasoline burned at the event. But does it include transportation to and from the event? Potentially it even includes the co2 generated by farming the food that is there. It doesn’t say so it’s hard to really know how bad it is relative to other vacations.

I think the beginning of the original Prey was equally as good.

Oh thank god!

“Kissing the turtle”? I haven’t heard that euphemism before.

A mayor of a town who worked with the enemy of his country, which is currently bombing civilians regularly, is not the same as a “random” citizen who supports their own country. Thats a mind bogglingly stupid comparison.

“Can’t see fully” honestly sounds much much worse than “can’t see perfectly”. I am not blind, but I certainly can’t see perfectly. Both are pretty stupid ways to describe blindness.

What’s respectful is describing disabilities accurately and still treating the people who have them like valid human beings who are as valuable as everyone else. Not treating them like fragile children.

If it’s offensive to refer to people who prefer “they/then” as “she”, then it’s offensive to refer to someone who prefers “she/her” as “they”.

And this isn’t just on principle either. I know a cis heterosexual woman who has short, but still feminine hair and tattoos and people repeatedly call her “they” sometimes and it bothers her. And it’s weird because the solid odds are that she prefers “she/her” but people call her “they” which points out that she doesn’t look conventional.

Edit: the best thing you can do is to ask literally everyone you meet, or just use he or her the traditional way and quickly and briefly apologize if corrected.