Not drinking or smoking does a pretty good job, too.

You’re not allergic to gluten.

Yes we do. Back up what you say, or don’t say it at all.

Yes we do.

Great, nobody cares. Lots of black and brown people like Bernie Sanders. If you don’t like him, vote for somebody else.

She pulled in like 1/6th of his first-day haul. And she has powerful people backing her play. That money wasn’t from small donors. It was mostly from rich, powerful people trying to tip the scales and make her happen. It’s like when people buy their own damned books in order to get themselves on the best-seller list.

No, it’s not the main thing we can say in his favor. It’s a big, fat “in addition to” Sanders’s long-term public popularity and amazing, consistent set of political goals. Not only is he eating your breakfast on the policy front, but he’s beating you on the metric that you guys pretended for decades was the only thing…

Because there is nobody currently in the race who actually supports all his policy initiatives. There are people worming their way around the issues, talking about how they support “some form” of M4A, for example, but nobody is currently articulating the same things he is. And the funniest shit is when centrist idiots…

But he’s going to be anyway. What will you do then?

This is not a plan, and I won’t vote for some who can’t articulate how we can actually achieve any of his/her stated aims. He has not seriously engaged with the economics or politics of his proposals, and that’s a deal breaker for me when it comes to deciding who I actually want to run the country.

It’s going to be wonderful watching her fall back to earth in the eyes of the low information Splinter crowd. God help her if she has to compromise on something to maintain some minimal level of viability in Congress

When there is no real content to a politician’s message, you can drop little popcorn farts about them and run their campaign off the rails. It happens all the time. The reason why Sanders isn’t affected is because people like him for reasons of substance. Putting him down as “another old white male” or whatever may be…

Let me know how the discourse is keeping Bernie from raising over $6 million in small contributions on his first day in the running for 2020. Centrists aren’t the majority anymore. You are so marginal and minor, and yet you believe you have all this pull. The 24/7 attempts to make Kamala Harris happen, for example,…

Yeah, these people are part of a very loud like 5% of heavy Twitter users who really believe they can ram their version of reality down the rest of our throats. In their world, Sanders is a dried up husk who had his shot and jusr needs to recede into the background. In the real world, he’s the most popular politician…

Black voters don’t “tend to be” pragmatic. They’ve had to be highly transactional in their politics simply due to a dearth of options. The Democratic establishment has had them over a barrel for a long time. Let’s not confuse that with bona fide pragmatism.

Again, I give not the slightest of shits about Splinter. I’m just pointing out that they are bait for centrists, not actual news for leftists.

Well no, discourse gaming is when you say he took money from the NRA (he didn’t) and imply that he’s some sort of crypto gun-nut. Again, we all know that’s not true. But even more importantly, this little popcorn fart isn’t going to move Sanders supporters an inch. Gaming the discourse and trotting out BS talking…

They do. I didn’t believe this was a thing until I moved out to the sticks. Tons of people around here go out when deer season starts, get their one deer, and use it for meat for the rest of the year. These aren’t raving gun nuts.

I have no personal investment in either site. Splinter is designed to piss off centrists, which means they aren’t saying a whole lot of interest to begin with. The Root, by contrast, seems designed around the idea that black people are monolithically in the political center. There are nods to radical politics here and…

And the thing is, if they don’t grin and bear it, they’ll be revealing just how hypocritical they are. Either way is fine with me. We need to come to a reckoning about how things really are.