This just brings up so many great points (and important footnotes!). Please read!
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Traditionally, the Democrats have sought to preserve civil liberties and reduce military adventurism. Running the country means that princpled stances sometimes run into other principled stances and compromises are made. Compromise means controversy. Civil libertarians have reason to be frustrated.1 So do those who categorically oppose military intervention.2 No politician is entitled to your support—and nobody should blame you for looking around.
Many of those looking for somebody with a more hardline stance on civil liberties and against military action found Ron Paul.3 Ron Paul, a Republican, has emphasized that he cares about “liberty,” by which he means a combination of protecting civil liberties and an extreme hands-off approach toward economics, even when that comes at the expense of a lot of people without a lot of money or influence. And if you joined Ron Paul for his civil liberties stances, maybe you’ll adopt—or at least tolerate—some of his economic stances as well.
So what happens when Paul loses the race and Romney gets the nomination? Romney’s stances on civil liberties and military action is far worse than Obama’s. He wants to “double Guantanamo” and stick with the Afghanistan war indefinitely. Apparently he’s against allowing same-sex couples to adopt now too. But, like Paul, he’s a Republican. And he’s going to make a hard sell that he’s going to protect the same kind of “economic liberties” that Paul did.[^4] And a lot of Paul supporters are going to come around—even though Romney is dramatically worse than Obama on the issues the primarily claim to care about.
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"Oh, and an aside, I’m sure you didn’t mean to do this, but there is a LOT of confusion regarding “its” and “it’s” and their proper usage on your website. I know you’re anti-Spanish, and you should really set a good example by writing in proper English, especially since you want it to be our country’s official language. Here’s a handy tip: when you see an apostrophe (that’s this one - ‘), that means the symbol is replacing a letter. For example, when we write “it’s”, we mean “it is” (the second “i” is replaced by an apostrophe). I know this is VERY confusing because sometimes the apostrophe allows us to make a word possessive (for example, “Debbie Lesko’s bill would really fuck me in the ass because I can’t afford expensive birth control to have slutty slutty slut sex and not create an unwanted child.”) If you’re looking for more tips or further explanation, I’d suggest buying Strunk and White’s The Element of Style - only $9.95 on Amazon! An American company! I’d check to see if they hire illegals though. Sure they’re “elite” and “went to college”, but for real girl, no one is taking you seriously with these grammar issues."
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I love being an asshole. I love it so much. (via megwhat)
This is an excerpt from Meg’s email to Rep. Debbie Lesko, the Republican from Arizona who is sponsoring a bill that would allow employers to fire their employees if they find out that they’re using contraceptives to prevent pregnancy.
This is also why Meg is my hero.
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We don’t really have any reason to go anywhere near the stuff, yet it seems to be almost entirely dudes having lady-sex that seem to be so incredibly clueless as to why women would need birth control.
not to be confused w/ “not a single straight guy understands birth control” because I’m fully aware there are lots of cool dudes out there as well and the internet has a reputation for being terrible about these kinds of things.
I realize the internet’s probably getting tired of people ranting about this issue by now, but seriously? Seriously?!? It’s just a lot safer for me to get this stuff out here rather than respond to people directly on facebook where they post the most infuriating garbage.
"But, of course! Actually, Hillary helped Obama kill Breitbart, using the same knife she used to murder Vince Foster. Then they had a troop of Communist lesbian girl scouts bury the body near Obama’s birth place in Kenya, in a secret Muslim ceremony, before plotting to send all of America’s children to college, so they could grow up to be atheistic climate scientists bent on fluoridating our water in order to kill Jesus before He could show that Obama was faking last quarter’s jobs figures.
Connect the dots, my friends, connect the dots!"
— Dominionism Is Destroying America (via apoplecticskeptic)
(via apsies)
"No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your “religious freedom.” If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs."
— President Barack Obama (via ithedivine)
(via doyoulikemymask)
