“I used that word because they forced me into it,” Goodman said.

Fivethirtyeight did the math on the electoral college margin, and found that 5% is about the maximum plausible loss in popular vote with electoral victory.

There was one parked in front of my apartment a couple weeks ago, and I saw a couple in the opening parade of the Tour de France, but those are the only ones I’ve seen. Even in a French-speaking country they’re pretty rare.

If I wanted a car that emphasized handling over power, I’d buy an Alpine (also much cheaper), but I recognize they aren’t available in the US.

I’m about 99% sure someone putting their car on your property does not grant your the right to damage their car in any way.

Gerrymandering has crippled the DNC ability to take Senate seats.

I live in Belgium and like my healthcare quite a lot - it’s also not single-payer. Used to live in Germany, loved my healthcare there, same thing. “M4A or nothing” is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy that leaves us with nothing.

It’s not centrism to prefer a different kind of universal care - plenty of more left-leaning countries in Europe have universal care that isn’t single payer (Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France).

Those are all single payer systems.

The Netherlands does not have single-payer - its system is a better-regulated version of the system we have here in Belgium.

No major nation remotely on the scale of the US provides decent healthcare for all without this kind of model

Several European countries, including the one I live in, have public options that are as cheap as fully nationalized healthcare. In fact, outcomes and satisfaction are higher here in Belgium, in the Netherlands, and in Germany (all of which have some sort of mix of public and private options) than the UK, which is a…

The downside is a public option cannot really be competitive with private options for myriad reasons.

Thanks for the explanation. I always find it incredibly condescending that people shrieking about these things seem to think that farmers are idiots who know nothing about agricultural science.

This is an embarrassingly stupid and misinformed take.

You’re exactly right - Trump’s ‘invincibility’ is entirely a product of a closed media ecosystem. We are wholly unprepared for the effects of modern media on our political system.

President Trump and the Republican Party are now synonymous.

Tesla at least actually makes a product people like. There’s no reason they can’t be profitable in the long run if they make the right decisions. Uber and Lyft are totally different animals.

All conservative thought is a retcon to justify their beliefs. If America is pure and good and the founding fathers were demi-gods, they need to invent an entire framework to make it so. It’s pathetic.

Concentration camps are estimated to have been a net economic loss by a lot of historians. A number of economic historians have also suggested that the net impact of slavery in the US was negative for the slave states - that they were much slower to develop modern farming and diversify the economy.