In most civilized countries, voting takes place on weekends and your employer is legally obligated to let you leave work to go vote
Holyhandgrenade
Me reading most of the headline: yay!
Me reading the last two words of the headline: oh for fucks sake
The fools! I plunder their treasures and all they ask in return is to observe the small plastic rectancle I keep in my pocket! And then they let me take the rectangle with me as well!
I have a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and I found myself loving Russell and Mill because there's no pompousness to their writing. A lot of philosophers use very flowery language that's hard to parse, but Russell just gets straight to the point, clear as day.
In my opinion, philosophy should be written clearly so anyone can understand it (looking at you, Heidegger)
In a more direct way, there is video evidence of Israeli soldiers delivering briefcases full of money to Hamas leaders. Netanyahu and his cronies want Hamas to be in charge of Palestine, because the last thing he needs is a competent and legitimate Palestinian government.
The "telephone call" was what did it for me.
This would only work if Republicans cared at all about logic, which they absolutely fucking don't
My mind immediately goes to the Ferengi whenever someone says "females" about women.
When I was 19, a girl told me at a party that I was the coolest guy in school. I was just flattered by the compliment and when I told my girlfriend about it later she said "Yeah she was totally hitting on you".
I was like "Nah! Her? No way!"
Years later, I randomly thought about it and went "oh my god, she was hitting on me!"
Only because people couldn't be bothered with learning the over-under cable coiling method.
If only there existed, like, a club for workers where everyone pays a membership fee to cover each other's legal costs and protect each other's rights. We could call it a "togetherness" or something like that