Say what you will about Thiel as a human being or citizen (I’m partial to four-letter expletives,) but he clearly has a nose for tech investment. The man invested $500k in FB in 2004, when the company was a valued at a paltry $5 million. When FB IPO’d in 2012, Theil sold some of his shares (I don’t even think it was…

Thank you for your comment; I think you and I are more or less on the same page here, except that I don’t think BurnAliveOpener is trolling.

So what are you saying, they’re in equipoise? Neither makes it more or less likely that you are going to get what you want?

So if politicians make promise they don’t reasonably think they can keep to win power, then win that power, and then break those promises, and don’t face any criticism or any other accountability for any of that, somehow that makes it more likely they will do what you want in the future? Gotta say, not quite sure I…

You don’t think holding powerful people accountable to the things they say they will do is good? I’m more than a little flummoxed by the idea that holding powerful people accountable to their promises is not a good thing or a thing we should always strive to do, but that certainly would explain a lot of your…

Joe Manchin is decidedly pro-life; if you look at this Wikipedia page, there are a number of sources of cited for his having taken that position. With regard to Casey, I’ll admit I didn’t have him on my radar to the same degree as Manchin, but it seems like the two frequently travel together on this issue https://www.p…

I just don’t understand why you seem so willing to let Democrats off the hook of accountability for promises they are actually breaking just because other Democrats won’t go along with them. I don’t understand your reticence to hold powerful people accountable for their failure to use the power they have in ways they…

I understand engaging in a certain degree of magical thinking during election season. The degree to which Democrats have to over-win in order to get any amount of power is such that I become extremely sensitive around any talk that might dissuade someone from voting (whether because they think it will be futile, or…

Instead of wasting both our time having the same argument we’ve had at least once or twice before, I’m just going to refer back to one of those discussions (here https://jezebel.com/the-futile-attempts-to-stop-texass-restrictive-abortion-1847626083), confirm our positions are substantially the same, and call it a day…

Inveterate flamethrower Azalea Banks called Fox a “low rate escort with a crack baby.”

At some point, I think it’s important when supporters get unruly that we feel a responsibility to have them be civil and not allow for cyberbullying in one’s name.

Democrats control Congress on paper. The real question is whether they have the votes to pass any of the desired legislation described above. Even the things that can be passed through reconciliation (i.e., side-stepping Senate Dems’ failure to nuke the filibuster,) would still require 50 votes in order to get to the…

you can’t just assume something like that about a person without knowing them

I feel like it probably isn’t all that acceptable to cop to listening to Joe Rogan among left-leaning liberal types (i.e., the sort of person nominally aligned with Democratic party politics.) His brand is just too synonymous with anti-establishment conspiracy theory nuttery, bro science, transphobia, and other…

Are we so sure that only men like Joe Rogan? At least one poll taken in the past couple of years determined that 70% of Rogan’s listeners are men. That leaves 30% who do not identify as men (so women, and non-binary people.) https://www.mediamonitors.com/audience-demographic-variations-specific-to-genre/ But that…

I don’t remember the same amount of vitriol being thrown at Neil Young or Joni Mitchell when they pulled their music from the streaming service. But whenever a Black woman takes a stand, it’s always the end of the world.

“I don’t like Kim, but...” — Your opinion on Kardashian does not matter.

I did not know that! So I guess Rita’s the issue? Or was Tom leaving the first wife a traumatic enough experience for Colin that he’s been on his best behavior ever since?!??

They also seem like the type to raise a son who would be more intrigued in chess than a burgeoning rap career, but I suppose you really cannot have it all, can you?

And here I was given to understand that having basically no gun laws meant there’d be a good guy with a gun around every corner, ready to stop just this sort of thing from happening.