They also require far less space to farm.

I don’t think I was normalizing or justifying it. I was saying that people are living in a country that actively encourages it and that is where things need to be attacked if we want to solve the issue, just like you’re never going to end smoking while tobacco is still being sold.

What people are arguing is that this one day a year shouldn’t happen, while ignoring the issue that fat people, especially fat women, face a lot of body shaming when they’re at the beach. Many fat women can tell you stories.

Also, on top of just random people giving them shit, they also have to deal with things like this when not even near a beach, which make them not want to go to the beach at all because of the shame being forced on them.

So, again, I think giving them one day a year on one beach in one city with eight beaches where they don’t have to walk around in a bathing suit and getting shamed for it is a good thing.

Treating a fat person poorly is just not going to do anything about the obesity epidemic. I am seeing a bunch of posts here talking about reasons why people are fat and what they should do to not be fat, but they are fat right now even if they are now taking that advice and losing weight, so maybe a little compassion is needed.

I don’t wish to question your dragon expertise, but, what with them being fictional, I’d argue that they can have any number of legs you wish to imagine them having.

If you don’t consider them human, you don’t consider it murdering a human child.

That’s the problem with bigotry. It makes people view others as less-than-human.

Add it to the 52-installment list: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/24/2242636/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-52

I think it’s more of a “our hands are tied” situation. There’s not really much the world governments can do to control China, especially when they control so much global manufacturing.

Of course he knew it was safe before he tried it. He’s a scientist, not a daredevil.

And I wish people would be less against eating insects. If they ate more insects for protein and less beef, we would have much less of a problem. Just using cricket flour for more protein in our American carb-heavy diets would be helpful. And no, you won’t be picking legs out of your teeth.

Maybe they’re also bringing a converter.

Sure ought to be easy to prove it’s a hate crime.

Except this is Texas and they don’t care about none of your proof 'round those there parts.

This rural Pennsylvania town could get a huge population boom if they had a “we welcome queer people and migrants and we don’t tolerate hate” policy they announced to the world.

But of course, that’s way too far for them.

I’m just amazed he didn’t say, “and if they win, they get to keep fighting and we won’t deport them until they lose a fight!”

If there’s anyone who knows the plight of the black experience in America, it’s a rich, white New Yorker who grew up in a penthouse suite.

Also, I’m guessing plenty of black people know what his position on the Central Park Five still is even years after their exoneration.

How many has he gained?

And, again, body shaming causes stress, which will result in stress eating, which is why one day a year fat people can go to one of the eight public beaches in New York City without being body shamed is not a bad thing.

Oh, they like taxes now?

At this point, according to their media, everything bad that happens in Russia is America’s fault.

What they mean is that they hope it will change everything because a horse race is best for the media’s bottom line.

…is an island?