Color me, not impressed! This from the president who inflicted so much harm and damage on the Motherland and helped militarize the continent like no other modern president? Come on! And is he gonna do that “NBA minority ownership” thing in Libya, the African country he destroyed and turned into a slave market? Am I to…

A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey’s on the moon)

Everytime I see these “helpful” billionaires, I think about Blade Runner or Elysium. Turn the Earth to a shit pile, fly off into space to some exclusive spacestation where mass amounts of money allows entry, look down on the Earth, figuratively and literally.

Lab leak also doesn’t excuse the US (or Italy, or the UK or Russia) form their piss-poor response once the virus was out there. China didn’t kill 600,000 Americans. American policies/inaction did. Which is what the lab leak nonsense is being pushed to deflect from. It’s all so transparent, and people fall for it every…

I’d rather see Bill Gates held to account for aggressively incentivising Oxford to sell its patent rights to Astra Zenica and thus endangering millions in poorer countries (and causing further waves and lockdowns in rich countries) than taking a punitive stance over something that at worst was probably an accidental…

The whole lab leak thing is a moot point, a red herring, and/or complete waste of resources. I can’t believe people would waste breath on it, let alone anything else, when there are still so many glaring issues with vaccine equity, roll out, access, OR ANY OTHER lessons learned after the pandemic response. Who cares…

Wherever it started, the way it was handled by Western Nations and selfish idiots who can’t even be bothered the tiniest bit to try to prevent it’s spread was fucking pathetic.   That’s the FAR bigger issue.

This is in no way surprising to me. If you don’t think Stewart is born from the same neo-liberal primordial ooze that Maher spawned out of, then you might be from that puddle too.

Sheesh, I bet you don’t think the CIA has the right to overthrow popularly-supported sovereign governments either? Doesn’t sound very freedom-loving of you.

Genuinely confused by this take — in which universe is the mainstream US media not an ever-flowing font of (almost always un/poorly-sourced) anti-China propaganda?

It’s not conservatives pushing the G7 to “contain” China or conservatives building up military installations in Asia right now (unless your argument is that US liberals are also conservatives, in which case yeah I concede the point). Besides, one of the classic plays in US politics is to distract from your own…

Exactly this! Private schools are good for nothing except further entrenchment of the upper class. They should be abolished.

Liberals and conservatives alike are hankering after a new Cold War so goddamn badly they can taste it, huh? Literally zero evidence out there in favor of the lab leak theory, but the neatest little turn in the “just asking questions” framing is that the lack of evidence becomes, in itself, evidence — after all, who…

I hate our imperialist war machine, but I keep going back and forth on the draft issue. If the draft is required for all people over 18, (I don’t mean signing up for Selective Service, I mean forcing people to enlist) will people finally confront our “freedom” to murder others for our economic interest? If we end…

There is an argument to be made that an active draft would discourage imperialist actions by the Executive Branch.

The replies here are hilarious. If you believe US intelligence reports on the virus, I have some interesting news for you about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. 

Uh, I don’t think the “lab leak” theory is how you put it:

It pays to be the head of a marxist national anti-racism movement. Not so much for anyone else involved.

Yes, we should call it out. The ruling classes in Latin American countries pay close attention to norms and expectations in the United States. And I wouldn’t be surprised (but don’t know for sure) if the Evangelical pastors who are so influential in Central America are tightly networked with Evangelicals in this…

I am not some financial guru what would be so bad about cancelling it?