The Products of Liberal Thought

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The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

If you’re not looking for a relationship, tell the person you’re seeing.

If you’re thinking of ghosting someone, tell them.

If you can’t handle meeting up with someone after all, tell them.

If you’re terrible at responding to messages, tell people.

If you prefer talking in person to texting, tell people. 

If you’re seeing several people at the same time, tell them.

If you’re looking for sex rather than dating, tell the person you’re seeing.

Make it almost unaffordable for many people to go to grad school by taxing your tuition waver (this would mean a grad student at a private university would spend 40% of their stipend on taxes)

Repeal the Obamacare mandate making insurance less affordable

Increase taxes on people making less than 70k/year

Save Trump’s family a literal billion dollars

By taking income into account, it allows the impoverished able to still survive while paying any fines they may incur. And, ultimately, while $100,000 dollars would be noticeable to a millionaire, they would still get by. And, assuming the law is properly implemented, they would be paying the same equivalent of their yearly income that a poorer person would. That’s what makes it fair. They would be impacted the same way - but you are looking at the amount rather than the equation.

Person making 10 dollars an hour: “Fuck, I better slow down”

Millionaire driving a Jaguar: “LOL 400 DOLLARS, FUCK THAT, NYOOM”

Compared to a proportional ticket.

Person making 10 dollars an hour and must pay 400 dollar ticket: “Fuck, I better slow down.”

An eighth grade student from Weaverville Elementary School got a detention slip for sharing his school prepared lunch Tuesday.

Kyle Bradford, 13, shared his chicken burrito with a friend who didn’t like the cheese sandwich he was given by the cafeteria.

Bradford didn’t see any problem with sharing his food.

“It seemed like he couldn’t get a normal lunch so I just wanted to give mine to him because I wasn’t really that hungry and it was just going to go in the garbage if I didn’t eat it,” said Bradford.

But the Trinity Alps Unified School District has regulations that prohibit students from sharing their meals.

The policies set by the district say that students can have allergies that another student may not be aware of.

Tom Barnett, the Superintendent of the Trinity Alps Unified School District says that hygiene issues also come into play when banning students from sharing meals.

“We have a policy that prohibits students from exchanging meals. Of course if students are concerned about other students not having enough to eat we would definitely want to consider that, but because of safety and liability we cannot allow students to actually exchange meals,” said Barnett.

Bradford’s mother Sandy Bradford thinks that her son did the right thing by sharing his lunch. She also believes that it isn’t up to the school to discipline her son for good manners.

“By all means the school can teach them math and the arithmetic and physical education, but when it comes to morals and manners and compassion, I believe it needs to start at home with the parent,” Sandy said.

Bradford says that he would definitely share his lunch again if a friend wanted a portion of his meal.

These aren’t isolated cases, either. Here’s a recap of the most recent honor roll of American public school cafeteria douchebaggery:

An elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah reportedly seized between 40 and 50 students’ lunches on pizza day and threw them all in the garbage when the kids got up to the register and couldn’t pay because their account balances were either low or empty. Students all over the cafeteria were broken down in tears. I’m sure that made for a great learning environment.

Remember the most important meal of the day? A 12-year-old Dickinson, Texas boy’s breakfast was thrown in the trash right in front of him at his middle school because his account was short a whopping .30 cents. The breakfast itself cost $1.25.

Around 25 students at a Massachusetts middle school were forced to throw out their lunches or refused lunch entirely because their accounts were empty or they could not afford to pay. An employee from the school’s on-site lunch provider reportedly gave an order not to provide lunch to students with overextended credit or empty accounts. At least that employee was later put on leave. “I’m pissed that when there are people in prison who are getting meals, my daughter, an honor student, is going hungry,” one father remarked.

A New Jersey elementary school threw a 10-year-old autistic boy’s lunch in the trash because of an unpaid account…despite having already done so before. “It’s between the parents and the cafeteria. It’s not between the child and the lunch lady. Let the kids eat their lunch,” the boy’s mother told a local news station.

The middle and high schools in Old Town, Maine have a “no pay, no food policy” that Superintendent David Walker says students, like the 11-year-old denied food because his mom hadn’t paid his account, should be able to understand. “Students are old enough to take responsibility for their lunches” by middle school age, said Walker. You know, because apparently 11-year-olds can suddenly get jobs in this country to afford their lunch at school.

Over 40 elementary school students in Kentucky were denied a full lunch during state testing week. One student’s account was short $1.15, which the mother told a news station she paid online as many schools require the night before, but the funds hadn’t been processed by lunch time the next day, so her fourth grader spent all day upset and left school crying at the end of the day. Luckily a good samaritan showed up to that school and donated $56 to pay up all student lunch accounts so no more kids would have to go without a full lunch (which isn’t even that large to begin with in this country) during state tests.

Worse, apparently students at some schools across the state of Minnesota are actually branded with “Money” or “Lunch” stamps across their hands when they are late on accounts as a message to parents to pay up. Yep, they are actually branding children with the scarlet letter of poverty if they cannot afford their lunch, so the child will have to walk around school for the whole entire rest of their day branded and a walking target for ridicule by other children because they are poor or the parents forgot to put money in their children’s accounts.

Being an abused child scared to tell my parents anything meant being subjected to this often. Yeah, the school was entirely adding to that abuse by putting a child in the position of going hungry or confronting their abuser.

Of the 1,864 women murdered in 2010, 91% were killed by men. (by contrast, of the 3,872 men murdered, only 9% were killed by women). Of all the women murdered (by either sex), over a third were killed by a husband or boyfriend. women have legitimate reason to fear men, even the ones they know. 

Of the 3,327 white people murdered in 2010, only 13% were killed by black people. 3% were killed by other or unknown races. white people do not have a statistically legitimate reason to fear other races.

Someone asked us:

Does HPV have a cure?

HPV is a really common STD that has many different strains. Most strains are harmless and go away on their own. A few strains of HPV cause genital warts — called “low-risk HPV” because it’s not dangerous (though warts can be annoying). Other strains of HPV can lead to cancers of the cervix, mouth, throat, anus, vulva, vagina, or penis — called “high-risk HPV.”

There’s no cure for HPV, but there are ways to help treat and prevent it. For people who have a cervix (most people who were assigned female at birth), Pap tests and HPV tests can help screen for high-risk HPV and cell changes before they lead to cervical cancer. There’s also a similar test for HPV in the anus, but it’s not as common. Right now there’s no test for high-risk HPV or related cell changes in other parts of the body, like the mouth or throat.

Genital warts can be removed by your doctor or a medicated cream that you use at home. Genital warts caused by HPV aren’t dangerous and they don’t lead to cancer, but removing them can help you avoid spreading the virus to others and make you more comfortable if the warts bother you.

There’s also the HPV vaccine, which is a safe way to protect against most types of HPV that can cause cancers and genital warts. The HPV vaccine works best when people get it at a young age — around 11 or 12 — so they can be fully protected years before they have sexual contact. But you can generally get the HPV vaccine up through age 26.

Using condoms and dental dams when you have oral, anal, and vaginal sex can also help prevent HPV. But since HPV is spread by skin-to-skin touching and can live on parts of your genitals that aren’t protected by safer sex barriers, it’s still possible to get HPV even if you always use protection. That’s why it’s important to get the vaccine, and to stay up to date on Pap and HPV tests.

HPV is very, very common — most people will get it at some point in their lives. The good news is the virus usually clears up on its own without doing any damage to your body. Most of the time, people who have HPV don’t even know it and it never affects their lives. So if you or a partner find out that you have HPV, try not to freak out. You’re in good company, along with … well, pretty much the entire human population. Talk with your doctor about ways to keep yourselves healthy, and try to remember that most of the time, HPV doesn’t cause serious health problems.

The LGBT movement was founded on the backs of women of color and trans women. Meaning you’re a fucking traitor by turning your backs on people due to their race or gender.

Don’t be that horrible brand of gay. Don’t be that shit head who is so proudly LGBT but writes shit like “no tacos or rice bowls” on their grindr. Don’t fuckin advocate for LGBT equality then turn around and call movements for racial equality to be “reverse racism” or some dumb shit like that.