I figure it was hyperbolic. I've always heard criticisms of child labor in sweatshops in China. I don't really know how to combat it because they never give any actual proof. I figure the rumors (or any truth if there is any) comes from the US exploiting them for cheap labor maybe?

Yeah. She's usually pretty supportive, and she was encouraging when I mentioned applying for PSL; she's just convinced there hasn't been successful socialist experiments anywhere in history.

True, it turned me into a puppy girl

I went too deep into the tech field, so now I'm a trans sister.

Congresswoman Magic: the Gathering is devastated.

Who needs rights when you have personal freedoms?? That way you can impose your rights on other, equally free but less right people!

Akshually disagreeing with me is against the rules of intellectual discourse... apparently. I wish we could just say "given" a fact and they just have to go with it. "Given communism is the correct progression from our current capitalist systems..."

Seriously? Even if I felt called to forgive such a person, I heavily doubt that I ever could. And if I somehow did, I would not support them in any way nor allow them anywhere near myself or my family ever again. Faith is slowly becoming less like opium and more like cyanide in the US.

I have so few friends I've fallen into this shit before. It's gotten better since getting on here but gee willickers I'm lonely.

21 million million people? Are there that many people in the world?

It's also fun when your doc has to argue with insurance to actually pay for it. Or when they decide at 18yo you are miraculously cured of ADHD AND there's no way the same drug can treat anything else, so they won't pay for it.

Wait a minute. So people who are inadmissible include those associated with a that forcibly suppresses opposition, but trust us, we're not doing that to communist parties. Don't worry, you can totally trust us!