spiralmind

5 is wrong. S/he (and most of the country, for that matter) needs to learn that voting in a presidential campaign is the LEAST meaningful thing you can do to have your voice heard. At that level the people have no voice at all. As long as the major parties won't put forth any acceptable… Read More

Dead wrong. All options are valid ones, especially if there are no remotely acceptable candidates. The act of voting itself gives legitimacy to the system as it is--if you and your conscience can't condone giving it that support, not voting is a perfectly sensible response.

<i>you get what you earn.</i> Oh, you poor hopelessly clueless... person. I remember what it was like to be so naive once. I'm almost jealous.

Not quite. It's more like 20% and 2%, respectively.

I dunno. It's no dumber than having children in hopes they'll take care of you in your old age someday.

Thanks!

Putin doesn't even want to do that. He and Russia would be perfectly happy to leave us alone. But as long as Washington insists on fucking with eastern Europe and committing aggression right up to Russia's borders, of course they have to try to keep things in order somehow.

<i>a part of me ... feels like Trump is a conspiracy candidate designed to get Hillary Clinton into office</i> It's not just you. They had to try hard to find someone more loathsome than Obama and I swore it would have been impossible to top themselves this time around. And I was… Read More

And here for a split second I was almost hoping it would be about something relevant. Then I remembered, this is Buzzfeed. How about a follow-up post on the <i>important</i> things the guy's been right about? He's spoken in favor of universal healthcare. He's said that diplomacy… Read More

I heard all the usual "you'll change your mind"-type BS in my teens and early 20s, but it pretty much dropped off after that, even after getting married. It's the wife that gets all those questions now.