Yeah but there are 0 third party/independents who didn’t get elected as a Democrat/Republican.

Implying he only makes executive orders about things he has a say in.

How many progressives do we have in the house? How many green party members (or any independent/third party member who wasn’t initially elected as a Democrat/Republican)?

If you’re a third party in the general, the deck is stacked against you even stronger than a progressive in the primary.

You could steal the green party but it’s not going to get you anything. You’d have to do the exact same thing of building up the party from local, to state, to federal offices. And you don’t get to drag along the people who are lifelong Democrats. You’d have to build up the green party and then take on both the Democrats and Republicans.

I think if she anchored it different, I might think like you. But “I don’t have a million; not half a million either” doesn’t imply to me it’s close. Maybe like 100k. But saying that she said she’s worth so much and quoting her saying “I’m not even worth X” as the proof is nonsense. Especially in response to someone with quotes from the article stating that it’s like $125k.

You have to fund your own retirement. The social safety net is constantly threatening to be removed and it doesn’t cover much to start with. And homes are stupid expensive. Especially in the places where AOC has to have places to live.

I think my point is more along the lines of “I don’t even have half a million dollars” doesn’t imply to me that they have half a million dollars.

How does “I’m not even worth half a million” mean “I have hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank” to people. I don’t get it.

If you have a retirement account and a home, you’re probably worth more than that anyway.

“Approve my claim or i’ll kill you” is not a warning. it’s a threat.

Yep that would be a threat. That’s not what she said though. She never said she’d do anything. She was just pointing out that someone was recently killed for the behavior they’re exhibiting, so if they’re going to keep doing that behavior, it stands to reason the same thing will happen to them.

The context is just her life. That she’s attempting to apply to everyone always. The problem is not the question like she seems to assume. And her solution to ask “Where do you consider home?” is awkward and doesn’t really help.

To note, the problem is the underlying assertion that they have to be from somewhere foreign when other people in the same area won’t have that assumption applied to them. So the context the question is asked in matters a lot and her blanket statement completely takes that context out of it.

You don’t want drug addicts being solely responsible for a newborn baby do you? The only way to be sure that doesn’t happen is to test people.

I don’t know if the original intention was just that naïve or if it was always sinister, but it’s definitely used in discriminatory ways and does more harm than good.

Sometimes the powers that be need the proper motivation needed to get rid of the orphan crushing machine.

Additionally, my wife has recently started watching Gossip Girl but I only catch glimpses of that show. Did anybody actually like that show when it came out?

If you think of teenage girls as people, tons of people liked it when it came out. They also liked the books.

We have tons of video evidence of cops planting evidence for smaller things than this.

It’s a McDonald’s. Do people even look up the reviews for a McDonald’s before going?

No. He was the kind of evil that legally harmed and killed millions. A That you see that as innocent shows a complete disregard for humanity.

It’s sick you think he was innocent.

In case it’s someone who looks plausibly old enough but who “borrowed” Mom’s ID. I doubt they have facial recognition to match ID to face on those cheap POSs.

You got to read more of the sentence:

The killing has sparked public outrage and dark humor on social media, reflecting widespread frustration with health insurers

The outrage isn’t about the killing. The outrage is about the health insurers. The killing is just the spark that got us all to talk about it.