FFS. We know you hate Bernie because he’s ‘teh ebil joo’, but he’s made it quite clear that he is on the side that thinks the best way to deal with sport and shitty regimes is to shine a spotlight on them.

Maybe one day you’ll make the link between this kind of shit and your brand of politics. Stop creating situations that let racists be racist. If they pull this over a fucking hoodie, what the fuck do you think are they going to do when your favoured $15 minimum wage lets them exclude half the workforce from jobs?…

It’s a matter of degree rather than a real difference. Trump is worse than Hillary, but not by much. The GOP is openly vile, the Democrats are infested with covert racism. The actual people involved on both sides are almost universally dreadful power-hungry nutters.

Depends on what they do when the boys in blue turn up. If they’re mad enough, even posh rich white men get arrested. Or even shot.

Going to cover Louis Farrakhan in this connection any time soon? He had some absolutely charming things to say about the Pittsburgh victims.

“ceremonial laying of hands which is the accepted response”

Given that you’re talking about the party that brought us Trump for President, you might at least have concerns about their competency, even if you’re convinced the sun shines out of their arses.

Only problem is much the same things apply to the Democrats - hollow shell, entirely unprincipled, racist-conspiracy-theory-mongering arseholes.

Given that US politics has seemed for a while to be doing a farcical version of the UK politics of 30 years earlier, the next thing you’re going to get are independents standing - and winning - as ‘anti-sleaze’ candidates. You’ll probably pick a different word for the same thing.

I like the way your last line could equally well come from a lefty, a righty, or a non-partisan cynic.

This may be a bit too complicated for beginners in thinking, but an exploration of an idea is not the same as advocacy of that idea. Taking today’s trends to extremes (as a thought exercise, not in practice, natch) is a way of looking at those trends and how they’re affecting things right now.

Surely we can assume the securicops were called because the student was asked to leave the room and wouldn’t? Teachers normally have the right to throw anyone out for any reason or none at all - there might be an ensuing complaint, but it’s a bit like a red card in football, you have to leave the pitch when the ref…

IDK about that university, but the concept that a teacher can order students out of the room for any reason whatsoever is fairly widespread. If they don’t go, they... I dunno, never happened when I was at school, but I guess securicops might be called eventually.

How can you write about this while working for a site that regularly prints virulently antisemitic rants? Hell, you have two below on the very same page.

Seriously? After Pittsburgh you’re still doing this antisemitic shite?

The UK doesn’t still have company cars in any numbers. They were phased out years ago when the tax regime was changed.

Very short MOT, the seller thinks it won’t make it through the next MOT without a huge bill. Otherwise the seller would get a new MOT before sale and at least double his money.

The IS estates have horrendous fuel economy, road tax, and insurance by UK standards. Sure, you can buy one for £500. But it’ll cost you a minimum of 3-4x that a year before you even start putting fuel in it.

Tariffs are taxes on Americans, by America. Why should foreign countries care what taxes Trump makes Americans pay? He’s using tariffs as a politically acceptable way of raising domestic taxes, that’s all.

Quite. What’s the total cost of fossil fuel exploration over the same time period?