“At some point, it became widely known that that blackface was offensive”

The purity olympics in America need too fucking stop. I am a left leaning, liberal woman of color. This shit needs to stop. This is why people end up becoming the Trump supporters we see in ever-growing millions these days. Nothing is enough. They all apologized. Fred Armisen was playing Barack Obama, not making fun…

All that means is that HR or you did a better job of withholding during the year. The $2000 refund you usually get is result of poor planning and interest free loans given to the govt.

Wow. I expect Gawkerites to lean pretty hard to the left with political sophistication limited by their youth, but wow.

High speed rail doesn’t work in the U.S. because of how we’re developed. Advocates also tend to forget that Europe is the size of Texas.

Socialism, communism, and anarchy can also be the path to totalitarianism.

Care to back that with evidence? We have been capitalist since the start of the USA and there is no totalitarianism in over 200 years! How long did it take Venezuela, SSR, North Korea to be totalitarianism with socialist values? 5-10 years?

You are whats called a “useful idiot.” And not just in the Stalinist sense of the word, I mean you are a dipshit. AOC’s bill overview--not the GND itself, admittedly, but the overview released by her office-- calls for “economic support for those unable or UNWILLING to work.” Please defend that piece of socialist…

Holy shit, how many times do we have to try Communism and it’s flavors before people get it through their heads it doesn’t work?

“Capitalism is the path to totalitarianism.” Incorrect.

Haha Jalopnik commie.

In small parts of them. I guess if you want to take a high speed rail (200mph) from LA to NY instead of a plane (560mph)we can have a race and I’ll see you there a day later.

Socialism is the path to communism...

10s of millions of people starved to death by socialism haven’t convinced him, your argument is sound but I don’t expect it to work.

Do people often take high-speed rail to travel from Moscow to Lisbon? The NYC-LA flight route is extremely possible and extremely long.

I have read it. Short pamphlet. Have you read Hayek? You do not understand how Capitalism functions or how Socialism functions. Read some books and some history. Find an example of functioning state planning because you can’t. Even India as an open Democracy for 35 or so years after its independence bankrupted itself…

So...care to name those countries?

I’m a big high speed rail proponent, but I gotta challenge you on that one-there are bigger countries by land area with significant high-speed rail?  If you’re referring to China, they’re about the same size and their high speed rail network is extremely limited in scope, leaving out most of the Western 50% of the…

...Who? I’m pretty sure the only two countries bigger than you are Canada and Russia. I can’t speak to Russia, but I know we don’t have a high-speed rail network. Somehow I doubt they do either.