Yeah, it’s hard not to give major sideeye to these parents. I don’t doubt that they’re upset now, but it’s hard not to judge them. If R. Kelly was a star in a field less lucrative than music, I somehow doubt they would be rationalizing his long history of statutory rape and child porn allegations by saying that he was…

Well I for one am shocked, simply SHOCKED, that a guy who videotaped himself committing statutory rape and urinating on a child only to inexplicably get away with it without any legal or professional consequences whatsoever would go on to continue behaving in an inappropriate fashion. Who could have possibly predicted…

Sigur Ros being performers for weddings made sense anyway.

Seriously- Sigur Ros at Joffrey’s wedding didn’t ruin anything for me because even though it was Jonsi’s voice singing the Rains of Castemere, it was kind of dismissed quickly, they were covered head to toe, and in the background of shots. It was not bloody Ed Sheeran’s face popping up center shot and just sitting…

You think this is what the centrist Democrats are afraid of?

“not by tinkering around with the margins of capitalism but by smashing it”

Can you show me another form of government that has worked over the long term? It seems like current day Venuzuela might be the utopia you are looking for.

I do enjoy when people gripe about mainstream liberals actually working to get things done instead of promising Sandersesque fairytales.

So basically the Left is going to continue to squander the next few election cycles on internal squabbling about purity and message and what not.

I’m sick of this pious bullshit that the only reason the Left loses is because we’re just so goshdarn good and right about everything, but we never would do anything as smelly as actual politics. We lose because the forces of money and power are against us. We also lose because we don’t organize politically and we…

For example: Both American political parties, which have been taking turns winning elections and mostly not doing jack shit for those classes of people for quite a bit longer than I have been alive.

Bernie would have won against Trump is on my Twitter feed every day from the alt-left

How many Democrats don’t support the public option?

Oh, and the DNC fucking torpedoed the New Deal Coalition, but that can’t be blamed on the 2016 campaign.

This is just so shockingly dumb.

Albert, you’re a great writer, but the premise here is faulty. Winning for the sake of winning is empty. But so is a moral stand without any actionable mechanism to win power and create change.

I’m gonna hold my nose and vote for Hillary Clinton, a center-right corporatist and war hawk whose record and allegiances, where they are not actively hostile to most of what I care about most deeply in my capacity as a citizen, at best only happen here and there upon a fitful, accidental, momentary quasi-agreement…

Protip: Nobody ever actually needs to think about Oliver Willis or Chapo Trap House, as neither of them are relevant to a damn thing actually happening in 2017. They can both kill each other trying to be King Dipshit of The Twitters.

Also...I’m not sure why people always try to interpret foreign elections in the context of American elections. You bring up Corbyn, and distill it to a single point “he won more seats because his message” which ignores the mistakes made by his opponent (like announcing plans for a tax increase on old people the week…

It’s not about winning, but Willis and others were a bit annoyed with the Chappo guys for their comment that the “left” and “liberals” could work together, but “liberals would have to bend the fucking knee, we are in charge now” because liberals don’t win. Which was an asshole remark in any sense, and also...the…

You know, I think you guys are happier to be critics than to actually wield power. For all the hyperventilating about Trump, I can’t help but feel that some part of you is happy to be back in your comfort zone of biting, yet ultimately irrelevant, snark.