A lot of vulnerable people live in red states. Not letting conservative-leaning states do whatever they want with their most vulnerable citizens has been an important and good part of American liberalism for decades and it’d be gross to abandon the principle.

Pretty good joke, I wish I had thought to make it

Everybody knew about the bad blood between Kupchak and the owners so this hardly comes as a surprise.

+1.3 YPC

I looked it up, it’s Bad

E: never mind, other people already said it and I don’t wanna pile on

Do people still shop at GameStop? I had to step into one for the first time in ages a couple years ago and I needed a shower when I got home to scrub the secondhand embarrassment and virginity off my skin.

Conservative Americans, as a general rule, don’t know the meaningful distinctions between Arabs, Persians, Kurds, and Pakistanis, to say nothing of other groups. They don’t know the difference between Arabs and Muslim. Their Islamophobia manifests not as any specific or concrete anti-Muslim ideology but as a…

Counterpoint: schools have been resegregating for decades and this process will accelerate wildly under Trump. Charter schools and vouchers accelerate gentrification and displace communities of color, and that’s at the top of his list for education policy. Sounds like your nephew’s teacher is spot on.

Almost all the people whose sentences Obama commuted today were nonviolent drug offenders, and I’d bet dollars to donuts almost all of them were people of color.

In that conservative white people express extra concern at the state of black families while ignoring the same things happening in white families, yes it’s racist. Regardless the point is that conservative whites are entirely unwilling to look at *why* there might be lower rates of two parent households, because…

Yeah actually this was one of the more pernicious effects of slavery, and it’s still happening today as a result of uneven sentencing from the war on drugs and elsewhere, and badly funded schools. I’m glad you’re able to see the root of the problem like the rest of us.

Actually Trump’s voters were on average pretty well off. It’s more accurate to say working class voters didn’t really turn out for Clinton like they did for Obama and Bill Clinton - Democratic policies hardly do anything for a lot of them so it takes a transcendentally charismatic candidate to win them over, and…

No one who would regularly vote Democrat but didn’t vote for Hillary gave a shit about Benghazi, and very few of them turned into Trump voters. Maybe you should direct your ire at the campaign itself for demonstrating such staggering electoral incompetence and blowing the most winnable election in a century or more.

This is an all time great comment for sure

He still needs to find the road maps and the ice scraper, though.

If you use a decidedly different definition of a word than almost everyone else, and that definition radically changed the meaning of your argument, you can expect people to disagree with what you’ve said based on the more straightforward reading of what you’ve written, yes. You haven’t outwitted anyone, you’ve just…

I think it’s important to make the distinction between progressivism as an ideology based on progressive improvements to the human condition (which characterizes pretty much every political ideology since the Enlightenment, even some reactionary ones) and American Progressivism, which is a discrete movement with…

Silicon Valley fundamentalists are libertarians who have found a sympathetic home in the Democratic party, not progressives. The latter has lost some of its specific meaning but it’s still not coterminous with “Democratic voter”

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