In the United States, executions nearly doubled, from 25 to 47. For the 17th year in a row, the U.S. was the only country in the Americas to carry out the death penalty.
we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
@hankgreen@mattyglesias Do you think that right-leaning medical students tend to choose higher-paying fields or do higher-paying fields tend to breed fiscal conservativism? Or both?
Anyway, I got rejected without an interview from a junior copy editor job for Duluth Trading Co., whose brand is basically just frat boy speak and I'm pretty sure with my MASTER'S DEGREE IN SHAKESPEARE, I can check a frat boy's spelling and grammar and tone just fine.
This job market is so fun because they don't want to hire anyone overqualified because they don't want to pay them what they're worth, so they hire underqualified people & promote them through the company & then everyone at that company looks educated on paper but they aren't.
you are correct: this is an example of how language is manipulated for political reasons.
obviously, these underaged girls in ICE facilities did not impregnate themselves. rape is not even mentioned. instead, the girls "test positive for pregnancy" as if it has been solely their own responsibility. what an insult to common sense as well as morality.
Do you remember in The Lion King when scar told the hyenas if they helped him become king he will make their lives better and then their lives didn’t get better and he blamed them for it.
And upon realizing this, the hyenas ate him.
Do with that story what you will.
Imagine if Iran bombed Washington and killed students in schools, what would you call it? Terrorists
The U.S. and Israel bombed Tehran and killed students in schools. Why do you call it a "pre-emptive strike"?
Bombing a school is a war crime under international humanitarian law