This is basic conservative governing strategy, too. Push and squeeze those they think beneath them, typically the poor (black and white, but mostly black). When the poor push back together, the conservative leadership suddenly scapegoats the non-whites for fighting back violently, who are usually left with little…

The pattern seems to be 1 1/2 seasons per book, and that includes snippets of the interstitial novels and short stories thrown in. So, by that logic, the ‘We need to talk’ moment won’t happen until the end of Season 3, likely as the cliffhanger.

This is true, but Dems are only willing to go so far on that front, unwilling to upset their donors by proposing comprehensive reform that is needed, instead doodling in the margins trying to pass things that improve things socially and sometimes electorally, but don’t cause any real economic problems for their elite…

None of this matters in the long run because you have two political parties united in their economic policies, the difference being one wants it right now, damned the suffering it will cause, and the other wants to implement it gently so the victim doesn’t feel it. Would you rather be gassed in your sleep or burned…

By firing Comey, by all accounts very popular within the Bureau, for no legitimate reason, Trump has pissed off one of the most powerful investigative agencies in the world. They will do everything within their purview to bury him and anything associated with him.

I’d like to know if this a good idea for a novelty product: a windup Trump doll that flails its legs and arms so that when it lays down on a flat surface, it looks like it is throwing a temper tantrum. Would work when lying on its back or belly. Might have an opening and closing mouth. Bonus: the mainspring while…

It’s all smoke and mirrors to justify denying the vote to people who don’t typically vote for the right-wing. The right wants a national ID law, but not build the infrastructure and education to make it work.

What do you think the odds are that some alt-right asshole will arrange ‘accidents’ for these kids on campus?

By your logic, I think it would be more likely that they would deliberately program fear into the machines so they can derive sadistic pleasure from it, a la Westworld.

Sorry, I was venting a bit and decided to make some dark satirical commentary on the end result of what seems to be the goals of the far right. Will it become the Purge or A Handmaiden’s Tale? One would hope not, but you do have reports of far right radicals itching for something resembling official permission to go…

Get your tinfoil hat ready, but I suspect the 1% is trying to create the conditions for a massive die off of the human workforce that will be inevitably replaced with Deep Learning AI, automated workers, and zero marginal cost manufacturing, resulting in the outmoding of the vast majority of physical human labor, and…

This is true, but can you honestly say that both sides equally have over a period of decades have tried (and mostly succeeded) in passing legislation that objectively harms its own, most vulnerable citizens in defense of those who are already very powerful, connected and affluent? And when confronted with conclusive,…

If something like this were passed, it would be a double edged sword, and would harm the right wing news media more than the left when it went to court. The problem is that it comes down to cost, and the right has a lot of funds to bury anyone in litigation, but it would have limits.

I find it highly ironic that fossil fuel industries are starting to adapt to green energy now that it’s showing signs of being more profitable and less controversial than fossil fuels, but the lobbying firms they hired and the politicians they’ve conditioned to their traditional views are running under inertia against…

Can’t we all just be humans/Terrans/Earthlings? The only thing that really separates us are the physical manifestations of evolutionary environmental adaptations, and anything else are fabricated social and intellectual constructs developed over millennia as a means of maintaining tribal cohesion, communication of…

Combine this with automated driving and you can have a scene like Logan where highspeed big rigs with no driver run over anyone who gets in the way of their destination.

Also, from a business perspective, as that seems to be the only metric anyone in government leadership runs on, it’s called loss leaders:

She was found washed up, so they don’t know when or where she fell in. She could have been drugged and thrown in, which would explain the lack of signs of struggle. I’m just saying, just because she wasn’t bound and gagged when she washed up, doesn’t mean there was no foul play. Furthermore, you would think there…

I hope they make an effort to determine whether or not she actually committed suicide and not something else. In this climate, she was a Grand Slam threat to the radical right: African-American, Muslim, female, and liberal. I will now remove my tinfoil hat.

Every time I see a picture of Spicer, it reminded me of something disturbing that I had repressed. I just found what it reminded me of: