M4A unrealistic. It literally works everywhere else in the industrialized world

I think a big issue is that people here don’t actually want a better system, just a radical change slogan. That’s why the lose their minds when you mention Bismark systems even though those systems vastly outperform Canada.

So it wasn’t homophobic, it was gate-keeping using in-group language and descriptions that most people wouldn’t recognize in context. That isn’t much better.

1. I’m fully aware that most of the rest of the world has universal healthcare of some kind. However, very few of them are any kind of single payer system

One important factor is that Libby doesn’t seem all that interested in talking policy to her readers but mainly to convince people to not to vote for Democrats.

And now, assuming Dems can take the Senate and White House, it’s actually possible that a public option (among other fixes) might pass which wasn’t going to happen in 2008

Get 60 seats or GTFO. Until then don’t tell me what is or is not a pipe dream.

Out of curiosity, would characterize Medicare for All as a “useful pipe dream”? I’m still not clear on the degree to which you all understand how unlikely it is that, regardless of who wins next year, there will be a functioning, universal, single-payer health care system in this country at any point over the next two…

“A public option should have been a stepping stone”

Uh...wasn’t (and isn’t) one the the huge complaints “progressives” had (have) re: Obamacare that it didn’t include a public option or allow negotiations and/or have price controls for drug costs?

Why were they forced to take it down? Insulting a brutal dictator is perfectly

I mean, it really irritates me when people use the indifference of Japanese citizens towards discrimination faced by Japanese Americans to justify why they don’t need to care. Scarlett Johansson’s casting as Major Kusanagi means nothing to Japanese actors, who have plenty of opportunities to be cast in Japanese films…

She didn’t kill the project, she just walked away from it; it’s ostensibly dead, not officially dead. As I said, her production company wasn’t the only one involved in the project and the rights for the film apparently belongs to New Regency Pictures. They’re the ones who can decide to make the film or not. People are…

Being chronically offended must be a lot more fun than it seems if you’re this determined to be so.

So did you have this same position on Hilary Swank in Boys Dont Cry? Or Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett? Cate Blanchett in I’m Not There? Oh what about Allison Williams in Peter Pan Live? Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously? Glenn Close in Albert Knobbs? Tilda Swinton has repeatedly played male…

It is not dumb when your nationality is an stereotype of terrible things and when the time is for a not terrible thing, said role goes for another nationality, so I think you’re wrong.

Although I see why it’s different, to me is offensive Lopez playing a Mexican when there are millions of Mexican women in this country, it is to me because I am one, there aren’t lots of good roles for Mexican woman other than prostitutes or maids or things related to drugs, she meant a lot to Mexican women in your…

Do you recall a couple years back when Cate Blanchett played Bob Dylan in a movie? I don’t recall the ‘proxy outrage’ community picketing any theaters because Blancehett isn’t Jewish, male, American, or a folk singer.

Trying to shame her for these things is ludicrous.

In the end she wants to get paid.