It won’t affect elections if all those kids live in cities. Assuming all those kids grow up to be straight-ticket D voters, it’ll be the same story: double-digit electoral blowouts in CA, IL, and NY getting cancelled out by meager GOP wins in PA, FL, and OH, and what do you know, another D candidate wins the popular…

I’d love to see a sudden and unannounced end to those subsidies. Just to see that cargo cult moron and everyone like him go into financial death spasms. “Sorry, those were government handouts and we know how much you hate those.”

Looks like we’ve got ourselves a “states’ rights” issue! Any minute now conservatives will rally behind California, or at the very least adopt the position that if you don’t like CA’s net neutrality policy, you’re free to move elsewhere!

Trump acted like a huge dick many times during 2016. Nothing came of it, other than a few cable news pundits scoffing and finger-wagging.

And then what? Most non-racists are concentrated in states the GOP doesn’t give a shit about winning.

Eh, categories full of stumpers happen pretty regularly. Sometimes it’s a pop culture category, but often times it’s an odd play-on-words scheme that nobody can quite get the hang of.

To my ears, “culturally connected landed gentry” sounds like “white wealthy men”. If we reverted to that system today, maybe the landed gentry wouldn’t be 100% white men, but that’s only because of progress US society has made during the so-called “zombie” period post-1860. If the death of chattel slavery meant “killin…

If Clinton won, I think Kennedy would have chosen to remain on the bench until she left office, or until declining health became too big an issue to ignore, whichever came first.

And if things go to shit, and the wise political sages of the future conclude it was due to involved citizen democracy run amok, what’s the preferred alternative?

“Try different things”. That’s one way of putting it. The issue lies in the types of “things” certain states try to get away with, which lead to the big bad “imperial” Fed getting involved.

I call it the Centrist’s Creed. “I’m totally on your side, but my political convictions can change on a dime depending on who puts on the best face of decorum and respectability. So if you get snippy, point out one of my blind spots, raise your voice, vent, or otherwise cause me to question my self-image as a…

We’re getting authoritarianism either way. Minorities and the poor have had the boot on their necks for most of history. I don’t think it’d be entirely bad if, due to some once-in-a-millennium political upheaval, the Joe Arpaios and Tomi Lahrens of the world suddenly had to worry about 4am no-knock raids,…

Considering what the GOP has accomplished since January 2017, I sure as hell wouldn’t mind an extreme-left version of Trump (minus the sexual misconduct). Imagine an iron-fisted federal crackdown on any and all police departments where an officer killed an unarmed suspect. Or a Supreme Court consisting of 5 greying…

It sounds like you’re using an alternate definition of “fourth wave” to describe a kind of fringe, Valerie Solanas-style extremism that was more prevalent decades ago. Which wave of feminism was the right wave, in your opinion, and why?

Early reports suggest all 12 boys and their coach will be played by Scarlett Johansson.

It doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to see how giving everybody a universal basic income could result in most people with shitty jobs just quitting them. The kinds of shitty jobs that, yes, put food on the shelves. Then what? Do you force people to keep working at gunpoint?

That has to be a Jack Handey sketch.

I’d be happy with just making Election Day a federal holiday.

I thought the main grievance most people had was that D2 was too casual and lacked endgame incentives for dedicated players to sink time into. Now it’s too grindy and not casual enough?

That’s a good category, but there might be too much ambiguity over whether Dutch last names are represented by just a V, or V & a third initial. I’d swap those two with “He was mayor of Los Angeles from 2005 to 2013” or “He played Sal Tessio in The Godfather”