this was a great idea. I'm sure the 4 hours of programming they lost out on weren't going to generate headlines

hey, doubt this is in good faith, but I'll respond.

Oh, yeah. Both things can be true.

Giving Russia a heads up was the right thing to do. Do you actually want WW3? Do you want to still be posting "Trump is Putin's Boyfriend" as the nuclear bomb detonates over your head?

I have to cop to enjoying doing exactly that more than I probably should—good jokes about Hillary/ are more exciting to me than jokes about Trump, for sheer transgressive delight—but I would concede that when it comes to actually discussing politics, theres no benefit in creating neoliberal democrats as an equal…

Hillary didnt invent the term. There was a theory at the time that there was a scientific basis for the rise of violent inner city crime, and superpredator was used to identify this supposed new breed of remorseless youth.

anytime you write a 2000 word, potentially embarrassing internet jeremiad, it's nice to get a compliment

one time I was sleep deprived and I said Pinochet was the hero of the people

the libertarian party is literally the PR wing for the corporations of america. They try to make it cool to be libertarian ("Marijuana should be legalized…"), but when you get down to it, they're mostly about protecting the liberty of capital to discriminate("…and firing someone for being gay, that should also be…

In 1994, It absolutely was a racialized term. That's like saying "thug" has nothing to do with race.

Here is bernie in 1994, on the floor of the house, criticizing the crime bill.

I absolutely agree that Hillary Clinton isnt the devil some may paint her as, and like the majority of leftists I voted for her in the election anyway.

I stand corrected, but I did hear exactly what I just said from a Clinton staffer on a podcast months ago, maybe The Majority Report?

she said super predators. There wasnt all this nuance and circumlocution. She cited super predators, which has always been racial discrimination with a pseudo-scientific paint job

thank you for your good opinions

yep, didnt really mean a whole lot.

for whatever reason, people always feel the need to concede that bernie bros are real and bad, as a olive branch, before launching into their actual argument

this is the one criticism of Bernie I'd actually concede. I still agree with most of his policies and I trust him more than any other politician in my lifetime, but he's not really an expert. He's just a real leftist.

also, Hillary spent a lot of money in states she knew she would win. She wanted to win with a mandate, and thought in inconceivable trump would pull it out. As we all did.

I think that's a real false equivalence on the NFL commish's part. Bernie has been tone deaf, but that's not comparable to Hillary's "evolving" stances on gay rights. Bernie has been tone deaf, but he never pushed forward the idea that black kids were violent animals.