If you’d read down the thread (or even taken the time to read/understand my original comment), you would have seen that I wrote multiple responses saying that I never took issue w/ saying that it was possible the allegations were false, I took issue w/ saying, based on zero evidence at the time, that the allegations…

Yep--that’s pretty shitty. My initial argument was not that the allegations *couldn’t* be false, but that we had no reason, at that point to believe that was *probably* the case.

I’m not arguing against being skeptical or raising all of the possibilities you raised (they didn’t seem outside the realm of possibility to me). I just took issue with the phrase, “this is probably false--” Sorry (genuinely) that I was a jerk in my response.

Yeah, and I never doubted he/she *could* have been right. Just that there didn’t seem to be, at the time, any reason to believe it was probably false.

This is probably a mostly false account.

Not sure what the “strong arguments” you are referring to are. . . . .Barack Obama was an extraordinary, transformative candidate and president—for many reasons, including his race, but also many other factors. But he has always operated as a centrist-democrat. And basically any centrist democrat would have been…

Nope, it’s been happening for a very long time and is just being reported more. The BlackLivesMatter movement (among others) has given use of police force against black americans a lot more visibility. Also, the fact that people have cell phones w/ video cameras now. . . . .We know about so many of these incidents…

Would you mind if people shared your story? (Please feel free to say “no”). But I can definitely say that more white people need to listen to stories like yours and hear what you are saying. I would like to share your story, if possible, but I also understand if you would prefer that I not do so. (I would also…

I’ve heard old white men call young black boys (seriously, like 10 year olds) that word when they think no one is listening. I live in Tennessee. I’ve heard it used in GA as well. I’m pretty much sure it’s used everywhere--particularly in the South--either between white people who know they’re allowed to use it with…

I liked George Clooney’s response--and I didn’t find it “hilarious” or particularly awkward. It was a mixture of “That sucks for my friends” and thinly veiled disgust at a weasely reporter asking him to comment on celebrity gossip (about his friends) while he was at the United Fucking Nations, probably talking about…

Your original comment said he wasn’t for the repeal of Roe v. Wade. I demonstrated that he was. Yes, he is pro-choice, which is nice, I guess. I say “I guess” because he is for the repeal of Roe v. Wade (given that he’s an originalist—which is hugely problematic for civil liberties more generally) and for leaving…

It’s certainly possible—I can already see them de-legimitmizing her if she wins with less than a majority of the vote, which is a likely scenario given the third party factor. Progressives need to start looking at the long game—Obama could have achieved a lot more if we had turned out to vote in 2010 and 2014. We need…

Okay, this makes sense. I wish people would rely less on their perceptions and more on actually looking—even briefly—at people’s policies. Even Sanders and Stein are night & day on Assad and Syria, but no one seems to be getting that.

It is genuine. I say this as someone who volunteered for the Nader campaign for 2000. I’ve seen this happen before—and I felt the righteousness of fighting for a third party, then lived through the following 8 years. It’s awful seeing the same 2000 logic played out among people who are 10 years younger than me. Every…

It’s actually not his base we have to be worried about convincing. It’s the millennials who hate Clinton so much they are casting purist votes for Johnson or Stein. If Clinton loses this election, it will be because she didn’t have the youth vote locked up like Obama did. And why might that be, I wonder, given that…

“Judges should be appointed who will interpret the Constitution according to its original meaning. Any court decision that does not follow this original meaning of the Constitution should be revisited. That is particularly true of decisions such as Roe vs. Wade, which have expanded the reach of the Federal government…

This is actually untrue. Bernie Sanders is pro-humanitarian intervention, pro-fighting ISIS, and was adamant about that any action on Syria should involve Assad stepping down from power. Johnson, on the other hand, is an isolationist—arguing that the US should never intervene (even in cases where the intervention is…

Here’s the thing: we have a two-party system because we have a first past the post (winner takes all) electoral system. That’s just the way party systems develop. If we had a parliamentary system—where proportionality had an effect on outcome—and power was less centralized—we would have developed a multi-party system.…

YES. You basically couldn’t get two political ideologies that are more polarized than Democratic Fucking Socialism and Libertarianism.

I’m with you. There’s like a concrete wall around their conception of Stein that is impenetrable. If you criticize her, you’re a McCarthy-era thinking + a Hillary crone.