Really? Seems like enough of them showed up to vote for Trump over Clinton, or Green party over Clinton, isn’t that what the last four years of moderate Democratic whinging has been about? So rather than putting in the effort to shame people into voting for the candidate, why not actually get the candidate to court…

This “no time to throw a fit because your candidate didn’t win” narrative is so strange. Here’s a thought, every presidential election season that I can remember Democratic pundits and strategists talk about courting independents and moderates. They’re perfectly comfortable playing the transactional game over the…

That’s a fantasy. It only cost Sanders political capital because he was unwilling to wield any power he might have in a way that would hurt centrist democrats and force them into adopting some of his positions. That was as true six weeks ago as it is now.

Sounds like something a buku blubber butt with enough cash might say, you with your hoity-toity foreign language skills.

In the Allen case they ruled that the wrong causal standard was used and remanded to determine whether Allen’s case could establish but-for causation. They didn’t rule on the process versus outcome distinction because it wasn’t at issue.

The Allen case has to do with causation, the Babb’s case has to do with the distinction between discriminatory outcome and process, as far as I can tell the reasoning is about the same in both. The Allen case is basically the court fully abandoning mixed motive causation in favor of a but-for test, the court doesn’t…

Thank you for replying, and I get the parsing, it’s useful for longer comments.

I have to ask, who is actually doing the gas lighting here?

I think Sasquatch’s point was more about the styling, going off of the OP’s criticism of the transition from the 6 to the 8 in the looks department and how the original 8 series was more visually distinct. 

House Democrats ended up with a bill that would’ve offered $1500, but would’ve required anyone making more than $75000 or jointly making $150000 to at least pay part of it back within 3 years. The bill has a similar unemployment insurance expansion, greatly expands emergency aid for federal agencies, offers more…

If we’re going to start about lies of omission:

Except in a world where precisely zero countries with functioning economies(prior to the pandemic) feature governments that own most of the housing stock and people want to live in high demand cities, then having people with capital buy and rent large buildings is ... kind of essential to workers having any chance at…

If you’re expecting structural change or a pathway to fundamental change, then you should look to whoever’s running in 2024, because Biden is the Obama nostalgia, vote blue no matter who candidate.

It has to say something about a political party that, after four years of complaining some of its members didn’t vote the last time, its answer is to basically run a very similar candidate to the last nominee, one who clearly doesn’t support the policies those members want, one who isn’t generating any excitement as…

I’d say it’s more complicated. FDR was basically a class traitor who also benefited from a stronger union movement, a positive outlook on the government’s role in people’s lives, and a more positive view of socialism and social democracy. Moderates and the right have had, what, sixty years of anti-New Deal, anti-social…

The incremental change argument and parallels to FDR’s policies are troubling because I think they ignore the elephant in the room, that they likely wouldn’t have been adopted, or adopted in the way they were when they were without the Great Depression. Republicans controlled the House and Senate from 1919 to 1931 and…

I think you misunderstood what I wrote. Biden would certainly do better than Trump when it comes to hiring someone like DeVos, because he likely wouldn’t. But you could say the same for Sanders, or Warren, or Bloomberg, or, very likely, even your local Democratic representative.

I agree. I don’t think it would’ve happened under a Sanders presidency either, but, to me, a leader with vision and aspirations is a more compelling proposition than one who says we can’t have that and simply promises to take the country back to October of 2016. Especially if the argument being made is that we need…

Bringing us to the status quo ante doesn’t solve anything if it’s the status quo ante that brought us Trump to begin with. This righting the ship narrative only works if you think Trump is a fluke and not a symptom.

Pretty low. This looks like the box design from the late 90s/early 00s. The cardboard was pretty strong, and they were better at keeping CDs in place than jewel cases.