Gonna be sweet when our great great grandkids finally get universal healthcare. They’ll need it to deal with all the health issues they’ll be facing on the scorched planet we’ve left them.
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Eventually? Like when exactly?
Let’s start with the Senate. How and when are the Democrats going to get a majority again?
What if Natalie Portman agreed to go on a date with you and had all kinds of fun sexy plans she promised to try out on the first date, and all you have to do is say yes to her? And what if instead all of your friends and family decided it would be better to go on a date with your weird abusive ex with wandering hands who never worked out and pretty much told you that she’s only in it for some stale rebound sex that you’ve tried before and really didn’t enjoy, so your friends called Natalie and said “no sorry he isn’t interested”.
And what if everyone you talked to tried to console you by saying “it never would have worked with Natalie anyway - your friends wouldn’t have liked her, and then you might end up with someone REALLY bad”
Analogies are fun!
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Watch how fast they go from “Bernie can’t win to senate” to “the senate was never in play anyway” 
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Sorry smokers. To go out in public now you will have to be totally shaved from head to toe and completely naked.
And escorted.
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Remember folks, risk is binary. Trace amounts of compounds so low that your best guess estimate for the high end is 10x the low end represents the exact same health hazards as smoking 3 packs a day. It’s just science.
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Actually it could be done if the US Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. That actually was the case for a minute in the 1970s:
There were no executions in the United States between 1967 and 1977. In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down capital punishment statutes in Furman v. Georgia , reducing all death sentences pending at the time to life imprisonment.[9]
Unfortunately, though:
Subsequently, a majority of states passed new death penalty statutes, and the court affirmed the legality of capital punishment in the 1976 case Gregg v. Georgia . Since then, more than 7,800 defendants have been sentenced to death;[10]
I’m not sure if it could be done legislatively at the federal level; maybe one of our resident lawbros can weigh in on that.
Directed by Crazy Joe Davola, probably explains it
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Piketty has a new book coming out next week.
Countries have a habit of thinking progressive legislation is impossible and then 5 years later acting as if it was inevitable.
I’ve hired a therapist who won’t treat transgender folks. She cites her religion as well as ‘countertransference’ and ‘lacking expertise’. But she’s got advanced training and if a transgender individual showed up with the diagnosis she treats best that has shit-all to do with their being transgender this therapist would refuse to treat. It’s 100% bigotry. She’s trying to dress it up as something else, but it’s bigotry, pure and simple.
Which puts me in a hard spot. Obviously I’ll need to try harder to flush this out in future interviews, but that won’t solve the current conundrum. I can’t fire her without severe risk of blowback as she’s otherwise an excellent employee and clinician so I’d have no possible explanation for just-cause, and worse I’d be open to claims I’d have violated her civil rights by firing her for this, and she’d be RIGHT. What a country.
Just needed to seek some validation here. Will definitely try to covertly flush this out in future interviews but need to do so, well, covertly. Ideas?
Just make her life miserable and never give her a salary increase and hopefully she will eventually move on. But obviously never mention anything about her religious beliefs or her bigotry. Play the same dirty game they do.
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She was a much better candidate though…
I fail to see how an openly bigoted therapist could be considered “excellent,” given the concerns I would have about her judgement in working with any patient.
If you feel too anxious about the potential consequences of firing her, then you really need to speak with either the agency’s attorney or someone from state board that oversees her profession.
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It is a new hire? Not sure if rules are the same down there but in Canada you can let someone go for any reason in first three months. You don’t even have to cite a reason.
What the hell, just fire her.
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