My dad is a baby boomer and he recalls his dad telling him "Believe only half of what you see and nothing of what you hear."

Seconding this as a Lehigh Valley native. There's a lot to see and do in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area, and it's a lovely region.

IIRC, PA has more KKK activity than any other Northern state.

For those who haven't read the article, this is a protest against Russia.

Flying Spaghetti Monster?

A friend of mine put it best a few years ago when Pope Francis condemned the death penalty:

God: "Thou shalt not kill."

Believer: "But--"

God: "Did I fucking stutter?"

Except there is no foolproof way to determine a person's guilt. People are wrongfully convicted every day across the planet. And while we can at least compensate someone who was wrongfully imprisoned, we can't compensate someone who was wrongfully executed.

The counterargument to that is that there is a nonzero chance of executing an innocent person. At least a person can be compensated for time spent wrongfully imprisoned; no such recourse exists for a person wrongfully executed.

I once got into an argument with someone on this very issue back when I used to frequent r/Catholicism. The argument they made was that the term "pro-life" is a term only used to describe a position on abortion.

The mental gymnastics are crazy.

>And the behavior of Republican operatives after Fetterman’s stroke were just disgusting.

This point is underappreciated. Trying to run a campaign based around bullying a stroke victim in the state that's behind only Florida in average resident age is ill-advised, at best.

Takes me back to 1998. I was 12 then, but even middle schoolers were talking about that one.

Attacking medical professionals is a profoundly stupid idea. This will just cause more preventable deaths.

A miserable pile of secrets!

Fuck these people. Their antics are eroding trust in democracy.

"We have investigated ourselves and found we have done nothing wrong."

Normally, it wouldn't be an issue when people put up political signs. However, Trump lost two years ago now. They really need to get over it.

You could say that about the guy who owns the sign.

The university system in the US is the best in the world. There are some amazing universities in Europe, don't get me wrong, but the number of good schools here and the networks they have here in the good ol' US of A are second to none.

Plus studying while immersing yourself in a foreign culture is incredibly enriching.

You're making the assumption that I haven't been.

Fair. The other commenter in this thread covers the issues with InsiderAdvantage, though. Plus you can see on the site itself that they only polled 750 people.

And yet they somehow managed to underrate the Democrats in 2018 and 2020.

RCP has a right-wing bias.

Ah, so that's where Jimmy Dore got his talking point from.

Philadelphia kicked his ass once already. Hope they're ready to do it again.