Seriously, good question. They answer it in the article, so you and the writer, yeah, totally on that same wavelength. You know, now that I mention the article we’re commenting on, it occurs to me: you should read it some time! Super informative regarding the subject we’re here to discuss.

You begrudge them a tip because they actually need it, but you don’t get enough literal and figurative pats on the back for giving it to them? You’re happy to give it to someone who doesn’t need it because you think it makes you look like a better person than you are? You sound like a fucking asshole.

Or, like, raise the minimum wage. That’d work pretty well. That’s why it exists? So, yeah.

Fifteen. $15. Why is this even worth lying about? If you think you’re joking, what’s supposed to be funny about it? Are you against the eight hour day, too? Seriously, it’s almost 2018. The election’s been over for a long time now. We get it. You hate young people, you hate Latinos, you hate Jews, and you hate poor…

Fair point- I would argue the Farrell is solidly left-of-mainstream, not strictly liberal, and Chappelle (seriously, good point, don’t know how I forgot him... although it has almost been more than 15 years) has been proudly repping the far left his whole career.

I wouldn’t call Bruce a conservative at all, and I don’t think there really are funny conservatives, either. A lack of empathy will cripple your sense of humor just as effectively as a lack of sincerity. Subversion is funny. Comedy lives in undermined expectations (and the wide shot). Neither face of mainstream…

You are currently defending Jimmy Kimmel as the pinnacle of satire and writing off Lenny Bruce as a wannabe. Just so everyone’s clear on where they stand.

You keep talking as though there’s a monolithic science of Economics about which this can be true, which makes me think you actually do belong to one of the free-market cults where modeling isn’t at all backed up by historical data, and just want to deny and deflect until the coast is clear for you to pretend Marxism…

And Alabama’s is “At least we’re not Mississippi.” (White) Mississippi’s is “At least we’re not our own, living, monstrous grandparents.” Turtles all the way down, y’ken?

Changing the size of the court is massively easier than impeaching a sitting member- One is an amendment to a statute, the other is a constitutional crisis. If Republicans were smart-brained, they’d shrink it to 5 justices now, so a Democrat elected in 2020 can’t replace Ginsberg and Kennedy with more of their own.

Yeah, my timeline in that sentence was off by a term, it’s been a long day. You’re right, they left shortly after she became involved. She totally failed at keeping the peace on the Peninsula the last time she was trusted with the job. Thank you for pointing out what a bad Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was,…

In b4 WHY ISN’T THIS ARTICLE ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON, HUH?

Yeah, who cares what the plan is? Anybody can come up with plans.

It would be one thing to give her shit for not somehow single-handedly holding the talks together, because then at least it would kinda sorta line up with reality,

Yeah, that’s probably why I didn’t say that.

Well, if someone owes someone else money, that causes the money to exist, so yes, it may seem that way, but that’s not how it is at all.

They don’t. Markets are perfectly rational. Every time they’re not, it’s because they secretly are but need to self-correct. If you diligently neglect to do the actual arithmetic, capitalism works perfectly!

It doesn’t because that’s the exact opposite of what the EC does. It functions exactly as intended, to insulate the voting process from small-d democratic influence. The Framers weren’t exactly coy about including it as a safeguard against the abolition of slavery- one that worked, remember, we needed a war to change…

I mean

Respectfully, we don’t. She never took the Six-Party Talks seriously and no progress was made there until she left, after which an agreement on the principle of Peaceful Coexistence was reached almost immediately.