I see your point and I think it’s a good one. There’s a money aspect to it directly but there are also sociocultural aspects to it as well; weird similarities between how tobacco smokers and firearm owners both view their rights as being under attack by rampaging and out of control governments.

Who are your references for this job application; can they give good support to your claim that you have The Bad Takes?

Fair. The exact question of where does reform start is a tough one to answer because it’s a local-county-state-federal problem. Like there is no place in the US wherein firearm violence magically does not occur, so to completely solve the issue requires work to be done at all levels. It most certainly does not solve…

This is good Splinter. Reducing the number of Americans per year who die from firearms should be a non-partisan position but unfortunately firearm manufacturer lobbyist groups have kind of taken over an entire major US political party. So in near-future America the only way forward on this issue involves getting local…

I can’t remember what the term is for the logical fallacy that Bret Stephens is employing but in short I am not surprised that a pseudointellectual like Bret Stephens is using logical fallacies to pretend that he has been greatly offended.

People in politics and those who follow politics closely know, by now, that polls are bad,

It’s like voter suppression and white people who were super excited to vote for an out and proud white supremacist didn’t exist!!

Quite right. A lot of polling strongly suggests that Americans generally are in favor of socialist policies as long as they are marketed/sold/packaged/advertised/communicated/branded the right way. Warren does that branding well.

I never said he was a successful troll ;-)

I mean he apparently was a “dinosaur buff” as a kid and, as one myself, I recognize that that doesn’t at all guarantee that the person will like secular science. I mean David Koch wasn’t a young-earth creationist but he definitely let his ideology warp his appreciation for the natural world.

I mean conservatives will label any government program (... except the military) as socialist, so just accept that they’re arguing in bad faith from the get-go.

But but “blah blah blah the rich don’t benefit from tax subsidies” yadda yadda yadda

He warned in the interview that if Democrats were to embrace an overly liberal platform, it could make it harder for the party to defeat President Trump.

To your left is a recently acquired specimen of Homo notsosapiens, a species of hominin which felt that personal responsibility was something for other species

Two of the United States’s best dinosaur exhibits are now named after him. :-/

Maybe if he gives away a small enough amount of his fortune, no one will notice that he hoards away a gigantic fortune

I would be okay with that.

This article mentions David Koch’s support of the arts but it doesn’t mention his support of the sciences; for example he was on the board of the American Museum of Natural History for a good amount of time and gave millions to them and also to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He liked science…

I got all of that and a bag of chips

Ya know I hadn’t even noticed that those Terms of Use were written when the GMG was still the name of the company that owns these comments. Maybe the Clashtalk moderators should point out that the ToU haven’t changed all the mentions of GMG to G/OM.