I’m gonna say this here, please vote and normally I would say vote for a certain candidate. What I’m saying is please don’t vote for Trump. I’m as Republican as it gets but voting for Trump in my opinion is borderline criminal. It is is flat out unAmerican. I fucking can’t stand Hillary but voting for Trump is wrong…

I mean, the Arab Spring was a really serious and complicated event, and both Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar al-Assad did bad things. However, in both cases Secretary Clinton pushed for the United States actions that made the consequences of that conflict worse. Just as with Iraq, she pushed for us to ensure the incumbent…

Can you read? I didn’t say the comment said that none of the dudes are voting for Trump. I said it’s dumb to think that people should be falling over themselves to vote for someone whose record is that of a somewhat socially liberal, economically centrist, foreign policy warhawk who loves bombing people and who pushed…

The “holding your nose” part comes from the knowledge that the person you’re voting for does things like take victory laps after facilitating Saudi arms deals that enables war crimes in Yemen and the mass slaughter of innocent civilians. Yeah, it’s a nose holding affair and fuck any single person who gives me shit for…

Yeah, man, it can only be stupid to disagree with the policies of a neoliberal but vote for them anyway because the alternative is World War Trump.

“Most of the dudes”

So, no offense, but fuck Hillary Clinton.

Oh, get fucked. It’s not enough that people who have profound actual disagreements with Clinton’s program have agreed to suck it up and vote for her? You need them to feel great about it, too? “The bare minimum” any voter can do to prevent Donald Trump’s sexism and racism from coming into power is to vote for Donald…

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Hillary is way more of a mainstream republican than trump ever was

Also (Dystopian hot taek alert):

When they started using injuries as an excuse to squeeze in more commercials, the whole thing got shittier. Football already had too many commercials and interruptions as it was. Then, some asshole decided to combine that problem with the hip new problem of people noticing injuries into one big fucking super-problem.…

I have some socialist leaning friends to look fondly on the 50's, they cite a top tax rate of 90%, high union participation, and very little foreign trade.

My beef is with the idea that has born out in practice that the media and the larger conversation around this election has become less about anything of substance and more about merely documenting the various ways Donald Trump is an awful human being. Which, again, to be clear, is not in doubt. But there just doesn’t…

At this point, anyone who doesn’t think that Trump is just fucking awful probably isn’t going to be convinced. This has been a very negative campaign. And while Trump either has no defined policy or the ones he does have are inconsistent or just horrible, that’s not an excuse to not scrutinize Clinton’s policies.…

This also assumes though that the main (or only) point of critiquing politicians is to decide which of them to elect at that moment. For better or worse, Clinton is overwhelmingly likely to be president in a few months. Given the alternative, I’m not begrudging anyone that - many of her harshest critics will vote for…

This post and the comments thread is an object lesson in how partisanship makes people incredibly stupid. In another comment, people keep mocking someone for saying that the United States is supporting Al-Nusra and that a no-fly zone would require boots on the ground, both of which are absolutely correct. But because…

the idea that ISIS is the only ultra-violent reactionary sunni jihadi militia operating in Syria is pretty rich too.

Albert, I know that you’re an expert in the Syrian war and all, but basically all the rebel groups in Aleppo (& northern Syria in general) are hardcore Islamists funded by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, and include Jabhat al Sham, AKA Jabhat al Nusra, AKA “Literally Part of Al Qaeda”. If they were to overthrow the…