Meanwhile, plenty of people who have been around the network for years and actually participate in discussion are still greyed...

Most doctors are a more educated equivalent of a car mechanic. It takes a lot of work to get through med school, but it’s not particularly academic work.

Well, we know he’s weirdly religious enough to have had this painting commissioned:

His takes on cars in general are entertaining but are to be taken with a grain of salt.

It’s not really worth arguing with Rand worshippers. Their political beliefs are faith-based.

Ok.... Is a YouTuber a Google employee, or a Snapchat influencer a Facebook employee?

Chapo is such an irritating group. The occasional funny bit gets buried under hours of unlistenable cross-talk and yelling.

The divide among pro-lifers is usually between religious extremists (who don’t support exceptions) and the “personal responsibility” obsessed crowd. The latter thinks that people who have sex deserve birth as punishment, but their law and order obsession also doesn’t sit well with an innocent (presumably white,…

It’s not dumb as hell, it’s fucking historiography. You can’t compare things out of time with another - the societies were different, world economics were different, social mores were different, communication was different. Learn how history is done, learn about things like presentism, and you may understand why…

Why would I not include pre-1917 US?

Induced demand is real and well understood by urban planners.

Meanwhile, there are a few million people out there that never will vote for a woman as President, but it is somehow Warren’s supporters who are playing reproductive identify politics.

Yeah, pinning Yemen on Obama is a massive stretch - we sold them the guns, but the Saudis and Emiratis bear the overwhelming share of the responsibility.

And, again, this isn’t something that can be proven or disproven.

that the US and the USSR were largely no better or worse than each other

Alright, you’re pathetic (not that this is “to your face,” keyboard warrior).

It’s also not that simple. The US supplied a huge amount of the weapons and equipment the Soviets used to win the war, we supplied a huge amount of the food they needed to keep their soldiers alive, and the biggest point: had Stalin not been such a colossal fuckup in underestimating Hitler, he could have joined with…

It’s incredibly pathetic that some people on the left have a pathological need to defend any regime that self-identified as leftist. The USSR, particularly before 1957, was a fucking nightmare.

I did all of my graduate work in Russia, the majority of which was spent in a city built as a gulag in 1935. I’ve interviewed dozens of former prisoners and their families. I grew up around the Russian expat community in the US, speak Russian, and have spent a lot of time there.

The war was basically over by December 1941? Over a year before the Soviets stopped getting their teeth kicked in because Stalin purged and executed almost his entire general staff between 1937 and 1938?