Well, you can't be cutting these other completely essential public services!

If I pasted those here, it would look like SPAM.

Never mistake these people: they forbid you to defend yourself, then fail to defend you, no matter how they run their mouths.

And then you vote for them again.

(recalling an awkward moment when Trump addressed the city of Chicago, and said their police could fix their problem if only they were allowed to)

There's McMansions and then there's this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/midoriwillfight/status/1329569916161298437

This is a great idea, it makes dismissing a research paper without having the need to read it whole:

https://twitter.com/APSphysics/status/1329124978210582541

Found a new lead singer for the Champagne Socialist band known as Rage Against The Machine

https://mobile.twitter.com/xXshink3nXx/status/1329506814350733313

Mask.

Sorry, Amy, you'll need to move to a civilized place (which rules out most major cities) to have police protection. The election result shows that you can't win in LA because the Dems can cheat forever with impunity.

Roxane Gay on why student loans should be forgiven (naturally, she has a ton of them):

Then there are those who worship at the altar of personal responsibility: If you assume a debt, you must repay it.

* raises hand *

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/opinion/student-loan-forgiveness-biden.html

No one benefits from everything our government does. ... This serves the greater good and indirectly benefits me. ... It’s part of the social contract, but that contract only holds up when we are all willing to abide by its terms. ~ from a link by Kevin at November 20, 2020 12:15 PM

*Raises hand, too.*

The "social contract" has never been about taking Peter's money to pay a specific benefit for Paul that separates him from Peter. It has been about serving the public in general - roads, primary and secondary education systems, welfare, mail, national defense, police, sewage, etc.

Paying for Paul's choice to get a Master's degree in basketweaving or for Paul to spend four years avoiding adulthood, all while Peter works in the stockroom at the local grocery store is not part of Peter's social contract; never has been.

> * raises hand *

✔

Consider the deeper meaning of this 12-second video.

Um, this one, too