but Americans still have the right to assemble peacefully and some freedom of speech left

Sure. Tell that to all the BLM protestors that got rounded up. Or the college students protesting Israel this year for that matter.

Did you ever think maybe they agreed to the contract because they didn’t think that Goodwill would give them any more money even if they wanted it?

No, I’m just not really on board with this one. As I said.

I don’t care what articles Ms. Magazine decides to publish. It’s not my magazine.

So you’re saying Iran has yet to master 16th century technology?

You are more optimistic than I am, but I hope you’re right. At this point, my hope is that at least Democrats will retain the congressional power to do something about a Trump regime I am seeing as an increasing inevitability.

There is absolutely no reason to assume an 82-year-old man would be willing to be president. It is a lot more work than Senator. And I personally think he deserves to say no if he doesn’t want to. It sort of sounds like you don’t.

Thank you for giving more info, I appreciate it!

Are they willing to run? Because otherwise it doesn’t matter. And I have seen no indication that they are.

Also, Buttigieg used to work for McKinsey and they are fucking evil. I’d rather have either Harris or Biden than that.

Those living people I was talking about have been depicted the same ways. They mostly show such people clothed because showing what they actually look like is too much. Even the link I gave, there is one photo where you can see a penis. Every other photo is taken in ways where penises are hidden.

We don’t need to go to a non-human to show examples of this when it’s done to humans who eschew clothing already.

No, I’m just addressing the search part. How can you trust it?

If that was what I was supposed to take from the story, they seriously buried the lede by putting that at the very end of the article.

I definitely wouldn’t extrapolate anything about the rest of the world from this. I just remember “Le Pen is going to be the next president of France” being said more than once in my lifetime.

I feel like “the right gets a big showing early on but ends up losing” is a regular feature of modern French elections. It seems like it’s happened multiple times in my lifetime.

I thought we were talking about people using having to work and pay bills as an excuse to not go out on the street and protest. You can’t do any of those things from a cell, which is what they’re risking. I don’t blame anyone for not risking that, especially if they have people who depend on them like small children.

But sure, they can do other things like organize and write. That’s true.

I don’t know if I’m really on board with the idea that a pre-genus homo hominid who existed before the concept of clothing existed teaches something about modern human clothing and shame.

There is a discussion to be had about shame and nudity, but it’s silly to go to Lucy as an example when there are living human beings in that part of the world right now who don’t seem to have much shame when it comes to nudity. I would think they would be better to use as a lesson.

Yes. I feel that if someone has done good work, even if they are a horrible person, acknowledging the good work is the right thing to do. Even if they wrong you personally. That makes it much more difficult, but I still think it’s something that needs to be done.

My former best friend ripped my mom off for drug money by lying about what he needed it for and is now in prison for possessing meth lab equipment. He’s a horrible person in a lot of ways. But I will still acknowledge the good things he did as good things (he was always willing to give someone a place to stay if they needed it and for as long as they needed it, for example) even if he has done things I can’t forgive him for.

I guess in my view, the bad has to far outweigh the good if you’re going to ignore the good and I think that, while I also have a lot of criticisms about what he has done with Wikileaks, especially around the 2016 election, I also think that Wikileaks- at least when it began- did a lot of good. And credit does go to him for that despite anything else. His victim in the article seems to agree.

Love her books, fine, but she is a horrible, horrible person

I am literally talking about separating someone from her work. I don’t know how I could have been clearer on that point. But that doesn’t mean what she says is in any way excusable or defensible. Bigotry is bigotry.

I wouldn’t substitute any word in that case because there is absolutely no excusing her at this point. Her actions are indefensible. Love her books, fine, but she is a horrible, horrible person and her bigotry does not deserve to be excused by calling it misguided or anything else but bigotry. If she said about black people what she says about trans people, that wouldn’t even be a consideration in terms of talking about her.

The ad part? No.

Hence it saying “writing for newspapers” not just newspapers.

Again, based on your claim, classified ads are journalism. Absolutely no one but you would even suggest such nonsense.

I have literally never heard anyone call a fast food job privileged before just because sometimes there’s downtime. That’s the weirdest claim I have ever heard.

Those people took those jobs because the pay structure & work requirements suit their needs.

Cool, so we better not pay them more money because giving the disabled more money to spend would be bad for some reason.

Really, paying them what anyone non-disabled would have to legally be paid for the exact same job would just be an insult to them. I know I get insulted every time I get paid more money at my very privileged jobs that you are certain I have had.