"I'm just trying to make people laugh, I don't want to rock the boat," Fallon said nervously as he was escorted into a windowless room with a canvas bag over his head.

Been doing that since well before this election cycle. Problem is the people I encourage to do the same (and vote in state and local elections) share memes and don't do much else.

Mattis might be the only one I could see voting for on the merits, and Haley is going to do fuck all at the UN like every ambassador, so why waste resources opposing her?

I guarantee that within 10 years, the majority of those jobs will be gone.

I regret to inform you that it actually does mean exactly that. Technological unemployment is likely to be the new normal within the next 10-15 years and any new jobs are likely to be fewer since they will involve providing services to keep automated production functioning. For example, where it used to take a team…

My man, I'm arguing that the jobs aren't coming back no matter what Trump does.

I'll grant you that Vox is terrible and its bias makes it basically unreadable. But it's a centrist bias.

Are you familiar with the concept of capital replacing labor and the kind of structural changes that causes in the economy?

Yes if the overwhelming majority of jobs created are temporary, contract, or part time.

But in all seriousness, do you think Vox is some kind of socialist agitprop what with its "globalism and capitalism are good and right" editorial stance?

More of that sort of growth means more wealth for the already wealthy and immiseration for everyone else.

"Sorkinism."

It's seriously just textbook regression in response to trauma. Trump's election was so devastating to the liberal worldview that rather than read political theory and political economy to try to figure out what in God's holy name just happened, liberals retreated into infantile narratives that they find reassuring.

lol

Bud, hate to break it to you but if you think Vox is "far left," you're somewhere to the right of Franco.

I hope you're right. Even still, the GOP has gotten better and better at voter suppression and gerrymandering. With any luck, SCOTUS will finally kill states' ability to redistrict to game elections this session, but who really knows anymore?

That's extremely distressing and I'm sorry you have to worry about it.

I hope they keep doing it and more people join them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it, but I think it will take more than a string of memes to break liberals/progressives' streak of completely neglecting to vote in midterms.

I agree. Has anyone reported this stuff to the Board of Medical Examiners?