Pretty much.

Simply put, yes. This obsession with not being perceived as gay is incredibly historically recent. You can find old black and white photos of male friends embracing and letters between men that’d come off as love letters to most men today. And that’s just in western culture. The samurai, arguably one of if not the greatest warriors in history, were not just warriors, but avid poets, artists, practitioners of ikebana (flower arrangement) and had surprisingly intimate relationships with other men.

I mean, its possible to be against abortion for moral reasons, but morality, unlike ethics, is inextricably entangled in religion. So if they're against abortion for moral reasons, they are by definition opposed to abortion for religious reasons. Of course most Americans in my experience (and I am one) don't seem to know the definition of most words related to morality, ethics, religion, and politics, so its not that surprising. Half the country can't tell the difference between Social Democracy and Fascism, two diametrically opposed political philosophies.

Fundamentalists don’t actually care what their holy book says. They’re mainly interested in controlling people. Look at Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists: they’re vehemently pro-life, even though the book they claim to believe was written by God says in no uncertain terms that life doesn’t begin until the baby is born.

Yeah, it’s kind of nuts. Even if “tough on crime” worked, it’s an, in my opinion, morally dubious stance.

What is even the point of a sentence that long? It’s not like he’s going to serve most of it. Regardless, glad he got out. We should really only put violent offenders in prison. A prison sentence being the default for everything is goofy, and the only thing goofier is a for profit prison system.

These stories aren't uplifting. They're a depressing reminder that a terrifyingly large percentage of my countrymen can't tell the difference between beneficial government programs and a dictatorship.

Someone with more patience than I have needs to teach my countrymen the difference between social democracy and fascism, because they were so utterly brainwashed during the Cold War that they can't tell the difference between beneficial government programs and a dictatorship.

Yeah, these sorts of stories always confuse and depress me. Why is this held up as good news when its caused by a shortcoming of the government? Every other developed country has implemented a social safety net including socialized medicine, but because Americans still can't distinquish between socialism and fascism, we end up with messed up "good news" stories like this!

Everyone except Republicans who don’t want anything done I’m guessing.

Democrats have tried to fix plenty of things, but they routinely get blocked by Republicans. Both parties are garbage, don’t truly represent the people, and should have been replaced long ago, but only one of them actively blocks the government from doing anything, and it’s not the Democrats.

There are deaths basically every year. Black Friday is basically peak end stage capitalism.