It is amazing to me how many such opportunities there are, and how seldom the Democrats take advantage.

You thought Sarah was insane and combative? Just wait for the Info-wars White House Press Briefing tm.

Also:

We’re literally the only developed country on the planet relying solely on private insurance for the majority of its citizens, and we pay about double per capita for healthcare compared with the rest of the developed world.

You know, it would be nice to have a conversation about the difference between socialism, social democracy, democratic socialism, planned vs mixed economies, but after the right wing railing for years about how anything left of Reagan was “socialist/communist”, I feel like everyone is just giving in and saying “sure,…

What’s the best way to ask Michael Harriot a question in his capacity as a wypipologist? 

What in the actual fuck?

I’ve always assumed that Morpheus and the rest were mistaken- That what the machines were actually using humans for was computing power: A small bit of each human brain being used to maintain the Matrix, the rest used to process the AI behind the machines.

sigh.  Take a star, dammit..

Israel has every right to reclaim their ancestral homeland because they were run off generations ago, right?

A LOT of companies are doing this now.  Why hang onto your best employees when you can hire someone off the street to do the job for much less?

In the spirit of Trek and IMO better.

That’s really the thing that separates truly brilliant satire like Galaxy Quest and Spinal Tap. When you’re making fun of it because you love it so much. It changes the dynamic in a way that inherently trades the cheap jabs for the deep recognition of why something is funny. It’s laughing at yourself.

I think that if you look at ship names across both fiction and real life, you’ll find numerous examples of military craft named after generals and admirals, research vessels named after scientists, scout ships named after explorers, and so forth. I believe Beverly Crusher captained the Pasteur in TNG’s finale.

If I wasn’t clear before, I totally agree with you.

Thing is, AOC seems savvy enough to counter with an “Amazon thinks giving us $X billion in jobs is worth our giving them $Y billion in handouts” statistic.  I just worry that she wouldn’t spend the kind of obsessive time to hammer, hammer, hammer it home.

use T-pain as an example of someone with who used zero of their musicality but who leveraged technology to be successful

You should see some of the shit that goes into record contracts. Like, stuff that would make pimps and payday loan managers hang their heads in shame.

The trick is, we have to make it seem like their idea.

How do we slow stuff down again after the Orange Menace is gone?