Why is it that the States that'd force you to have a child are the same ones who make it harder to raise one?
The amount of government intervention in parent's lives is crazy. It's easier to take your kid than to take your gun.
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It's not safe to mix the drugs it'd take to enjoy this with the drugs it'd take to make it through awake.
All you need to know about Ayn Rand is that she cashed her Social Security checks.
I had to look up what Goatse was. Fuck you.
This is a common rural mentality. Animals are utilitarian and those who fail to be useful or prove to be a nuisance are a waste of resources. "useless eaters"
Unless you're vegan (and I'm not), you participate in this kind of cruelty, even if you happen to be a few degrees removed from it.
Countries that have to jump through hoops to get their hands on, or sell sanctioned goods is an example of sanctions working.
Y'all remember back in 2022 when certain items were hard to get a hold of because of supply chain issues? You could still get what you wanted through the one weird trick of paying a premium for it. And that was a significant factor in inflation.
The goal of sanctions is not to hermetically seal a country off from global markets, but to damage that countries economy.
A great number of the enslaved people trafficked to the English Caribbean were later trafficked to work camps in places like South Carolina. In that State in particular (may be the case elsewhere IDK), the majority of the English Colonists as well as enslaved people came from the West Indies.
By the 19th Century the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the US (1808). The British abolished slavery in 1833. Most enslaved people in the US were descendants of enslaved people already there. IDK what the birth rate for enslaved people was, but you can imagine that 100 enslaved people trafficked in 1700 could be over a thousand by the time of the American Civil War. So most of what we think of as the height of US chattel slavery was after the Atlantic Trade was in decline.
I don't think the Warsaw uprising is an apt comparison for the war in Gaza. Never-mind the inflammatory nature of the Israel/Nazi comparison. But it's just doesn't add much context or illumination to what's happening.
I think historic examples that could bring more light than heat are : Plan Dalet and the Nakba (47-48), Beirut ('82), or the First Intifada (87-93). I think it might help if people understood more about this conflict, rather than trying to retread it over with WWII.
Back in the 60s, People used to criticize the American Civil Rights movement because the Soviets supported it. Bad faith then, bad faith now.
This is ironic since it's exactly the people who search for a "deep sense of meaning" who are the most credulous and vulnerable.
A man who says the meaning of life is when your quesadilla has burned bits of cheese on the outside of the tortilla might sound like a fool, but I bet he wouldn't let a cult leader fuck his wife.
I'm a huge keyboard shortcut guy. But any more than two modifiers can fuck right off. I wanna launch a program, not play carpel tunnel Twister.
Sometimes when a defense contractor and military branch love each other very much, they do a special hug, called an engineering and manufacturing development contract.