Yes, ______ population that has been harmed by the US government should also get reparations, because it’s the right thing to do. It just sucks that the same people who will be radical enough for whatever “unrealistic” policy idea that would have been considered unthinkable 15 years ago (single payer, GND, even stuff…

So wait, you are willing to make a distinction between “human” and “Western” values for things that you dislike, but not for things that you like? How do you fucking dress yourself in the morning?

No, as this event showed, for most it means “take the accusation at face value and if anyone asks any questions, it’s because they are racist/homophobic/sexist/transphobic, etc.” And if progressives truly want to help combat those things, that has to change.

I mean, I’m not “blaming” anyone, but in the interest of being honest and having integrity (a.k.a. being a Democrat) it’s worth pointing out to people complaining that they actually did better this year because they weren’t giving the government a free loan for all that time; they had that money in their pocket…

They stepped in because it was the cheaper option. You’re making the mistake of applying pure capitalist beliefs to a system that is far from pure capitalism.

You are correct. While the GOP tax bill is definitely a giant scam meant to enrich the wealthy and the expense of the poor, people complaining about their tax refund being lower aren’t being totally honest. The reason refunds are coming in lower are because the IRS was instructed to lower the withholding requirements…

Says a person who is probably one of the almost 50% of people in this country who pay no taxes and yet still get refunds. Is it fair to pay NO tax at all and still get benefits from that system? That doesn’t sound very ‘fair’ to me.

There was never any justice for the poor and middle class.

Just because a private lender wasn’t willing to provide the loan doesn’t mean that the canadian government did so out of the kindness of their hearts.

Tax payers didn’t provide that liquidity out of the goodness of their own hearts. They did it (in some cases almost literally) to protect their own asses.

This isn’t right, at all. GM at the time was a massive credit risk. If GM can’t find a lender in the actual market to give them liquidity, then you better believe being handed a loan from the taxpayers is a “gift”. That they repaid that loan is immaterial to the larger point. They received credit that the private…

Who cares if the Klan invented hoods? They’ve become a widespread and widely recognized symbol of white supremacy because the Klan adopted them. Even though other people have worn white hoods.

Or how about their love of country, their hatred of people who didn’t look and speak like them, their belief that the core of the problem with Germany was that they were being undermined by a small minority group they didn’t like?

So you deny that a few people snarfling up the majority of wealth in a nation suppresses the majority’s prosperity? How then do you explain what is happening in Merica right now? The middle class, what is left of it, is getting buried under a mountain of debt despite working their asses off, while the (super) rich’s…

Most “Antifa” incidents are false flag attacks by alt-right idiots, and even if they weren’t, no one actually supports Antifa; they’re widely denounced on both sides of the aisle (unlike, say, neo-Nazi’s and white supremacists, who have the explicit support of the President). Moreover, the number of people who are…

You think they are too dumb to behave in a civilized manner? You expect an higher standard of behaviour for white high school kids than adult black man, your racism is showing

No, it’s accurate. As a general point to all your responses to various people - Nazi’s wanted to make Germany great again and were willing to countenance the killing millions of Jews, gypsies, gays, etc to do it. They can be genuine patriots and anti-Semitic, genocidal murderers at the same time. Likewise, MAGA-hat…

Yeah, you absolutely should be judged on what you’re wearing.  If a bunch of folks in Klan hoods, or wearing SS uniforms, got harassed, they would be equally to blame for being called out as bigoted shitheads.  MAGA hats are the same thing; a visible, public symbol that the wearer considers anyone not white, straight,…

Why does a shitty first point invalidate the others?

I mean, I won’t go so far as to speak for “most people,” but I got the impression that R Kelly was both a weirdo and a pedophile, which seems to be the same impression many other commentators got.  So clearly this speaks more to the viewer than to Mr. Chappelle.... which makes it pretty darn tough to condemn him, and…