It’s a myth that the US could fund it’s healthcare if it didn’t fund the military. This is because we already spend more on healthcare than the military already. By a lot.

Medicare alone has a similar budget to the entire Pentagon!

We’re not too cheep for healthcare, we’re getting ripped off!

Conservatives believe that a terrorist is a race, or at least a kind of person. A person who does terrorism is only a terrorist if they oppose the goal of the violence.

I can think of several terrorists that I support. But not by pretending that they were good and peaceful people.

Anti-theists are stuck in the classic bigot’s dilemma.

On the one hand, they hate the administration. On the other, they love religious discrimination.

Oliver already basically does. Stewart is a die-hard neoliberal and it drives me crazy people don’t see it.

There was a competing theory that language was a technology that we developed and therefore had to learn rather than being innate.

We tortured a whole bunch of apes in the 70s & 80s trying to teach them language when it was always an exclusive ability of humans.

( I know that chimps could do sign language and stuff, but they never developed language; only able to express simple desires and emotions that they were well capable of without doing sign. And yes, Koko the gorilla’s ability was mostly a stage act. I’m sorry. )

They’re not teaching prayer, they’re accommodating it.

You’re suggesting Canadian Universities should show religious people less respect than American prisons.

Sign language has puns. But the gestures are similar, rather than the sounds.

Sign language is fascinating because it works exactly like other languages. It has rhymes, again with similar gesture rather than sound. Some people stutter in sign; being stuck in a repeated gesture.

This is further evidence for the theory that language is something inherent in human brains.

This sounds like the teenager ran away and started a new life. Why she did that is nobody’s business.

There is an excellent chance that Iran will emerge from this better off than they were under Obama’s nuclear deal. If that happens, the details should be a new chapter in “Art of the Deal” because goddamn.

She told Argentine media that she had not intended to be racist. “It was an emotional reaction,” she said. “I never imagined the gravity of it all.”

I’m becoming more convinced that there is only racism and anti-racism. All the “non-racists” are just closeted; never more than a little stress or a couple drinks from the Nword.

Why do you want to study Marxism in the first place? Most people do that because it’s interesting to them. The chances that that knowledge will help you in your life is vanishingly small.

You don’t need to understand Marx to criticize capitalism. All you need to do is exist under capitalism.

If your writing is being spied on because you use AI, that’s not a privacy violation because it’s not your writing.

I know when we think of politics in church you think of evangelicals and Republicans, but don’t forget that the black Church has been nexus for progressive politics since forever.

I bring this up because a misguided attempt to reign all this in would give a powerful tool to those who’d suppress Democrat voters. (If you ever wonder why Republicans hate Sunday voting, you probably haven’t seen the church bus pull up to the polling station.)

Concentrate on your experience. You don’t need a diagnosis or clinical jargon to understand yourself.

Conspiracy theories are a plot by Big Dumb to make us think less.

This is the first time I find myself in disagreement with this channel.

Meaning is not held inside words. The proof of it is that more than one language exists. Therefore it’s foolish to try to police the words as though they had some inherent connection to meaning. You can’t drive home in the word car.

Mexico is going to pay for the wall too.

Terrorism is something you do, not something you are. A terrorist is not a kind of person, its a person who’s done terrorism.

It’s amazing how many people deny this just because the terrorism was in service of a cause they support.

In Israel, terrorist is a race of people.

Working people paying for the mistakes of the ownership class. What else is new?

Nobody calls it the SS for that reason