What it has to do with is this: the are the only two parties that can plausibly win the next national election, Republicans and Democrats, and there are many differences between them (though perhaps no differences you care about one way or another.) One of those differences is their respective positions on…

It seems like it would be difficult to win a Senate seat and hold all the positions necessary to remain in the good graces of the extremely online left, given that Senate races are statewide elections.

I often get the sense that there’s this real recalcitrance by many elements of the self-described ‘progressive left’ to form coalitions with people who don’t share their exact politics, regardless of whether there are issues or policy objectives that could very easily serve as the anchor for such a coalition, and get…

People left of the Republicans (I dare not simply say “left” at this point, lest we get mired in the very purity testing you mentioned,) would *generally* rather fight amongst themselves than put together the kind of coalition necessary to marginalize Republicans to the fringes. I suspect it’s a combination of the…

Because his expulsion nevertheless hurts her and serves the purpose of making an example. There’s a reason that authoritarian regimes often have policies of generational or familial punishment—you may be brave about standing up for your principles if it’s just you who stands to be punished... but the calculus changes…

I think I’m probably more hateful and contemptuous towards someone who is a genuine piece of shit, than someone who is simply after a bag. I don’t think you’re wrong for feeling as you do, mind you. I think this might be an “eye of the beholder” type of thing.

“but completely misses that the Democratic Party is doing absolutely nothing to ensure meaningful and accessible healthcare.”

“Throwing in words like bourgeoisie and proletariat was a really corny move on your part. Don’t do that.”

I don’t even think it’s an excuse. An “excuse” acknowledges the wrongness of an act, while seeking to avoid moral culpability for the commission. In this case, I think the school thinks it did the right thing because it found the mother’s conduct so overwhelmingly reprehensible that her continued involvement with the…

I think you’re vastly overcomplicating this issue.

This is very simple: Do you want people in the U.S. to be able to get an abortion safely and relatively easily if they decide they want to get one?

“[W]e have at least a lifetime to determine who really is the biggest asshole of them all.”

Reproductive rights, and protecting abortion, are some of the most popular issues in the Democrats’ wheelhouse and arsenal, to say nothing of other left-leaning political forces. Making support of that issue contingent on another, more or less unrelated and highly divisive geopolitical issue, is a fantastic way to…

Then mutual bloodletting. Both fired.

Partisan politics are such that neither side can afford to let their opponents’ staffers get away with this.

It means she helps people become influencers, or takes people who are already influencers and plays matchmaker between them and brands, facilitating deals and partnerships.

We shouldn’t conflate “actions have consequences” with “Justice” or the idea of just desserts.

The article mentions that this isn’t the first time a student has been expelled based on their parent’s conduct—I’m dying to know the circumstances surrounding those/that prior incident(s).

To many Floridians, defunding public schools and giving everyone vouchers they can use for private school seems all well and good... until they realize that private schools not being ‘the state’ means they’re not restrained by the Constitution, and are beholden to very few standards beyond their…

“I can appreciate that fucking at work or filming a sex tape are fairly standard reasons to get fired from a job.”