Agree 100%. You expressed this better than I ever could. The successful shift from talking about actual issues to talking about who is talking and in what tone and what venue and so on and so on has been so mind boggling frustrating. Centrist democrats are sounding more and more like Republicans (this particular…

It’s beyond shitting on Sanders now. It’s about shitting on liberalism and liberals, and their unusual need to rally and talk about issues this election cycle. Liberals got uppity, and there are certain ways to silence them: Tell them their own identity disqualifies them from helping the oppressed, tell them that…

Thank you. The insistence of a certain class on shitting on Sanders even though he is clearly not going to be the nominee is telling.

Oh the shame! The early smear campaign was about divide-and-conquer identity politicking to keep the party centrist, in the hopes of winning the general election and avoid having to reform aspects of the DNC. To fend off a person for what he is.

I don’t know anything about you, and perhaps this is being unfair to you. I don’t know what your personal politics are. But would you be similarly disinclined to rush to judgment if it were some noted Republican warmonger enacting these very same policies? Were you, prior to Obama’s inauguration? If so, you are in a…

It absolutely makes him a murderer, as does the fact that his drone campaign kills innocents (as opposed to militants, and even those may be retroactively designated as such if they are male and of fighting age) at a rate of 9 to 1. If Obama were targeting terrorists within America and slaughtering civilians in the…

Your meaning is not entirely clear to me. If you’re pointing out that you believe all assassinations to be unlawful, then okay... but I fail to see how that does anything to discredit my position.

I know my Pinker well enough to say yes. Are you presuming to credit Obama’s murderous lawlessness with the moral arc of progress society has been on for the better part of history. I mean, I’ve met some super-fans, but that would really be something.

That’s fine. If you’re okay with this stuff, then you’re okay with it. But you can’t claim to be okay with it and also be in favor of the rule of law and the Constitution. You can’t be okay with it and also not be okay with it when it’s a Republican in office. You can’t be okay with it and not okay with it when it’s…

It’s been a genuine pleasure.

Please do tell, moral authority person, what would you have done differently?

You had the argument, Snacktastic. And you lost. Spectacularly.

Context. Always context. I would love to know the context in which illegal assassinations are unworthy of anything other than steadfast repudiation, but sure. It’s all about the context. The context of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki being a sixteen year old kid who’d committed no crime, had not been charged, was nowhere near a…

Then. Refute. What. I. Said.

Refute a single abuse I cited above. Any one of them is unforgivable for anyone who is remotely serious about this stuff. I know, I know: he’s our murderer. Therefore it’s okay.

Why is it that you Obama drones (no, the other kind) always pivot to the ‘lesser of two evils’ argument when someone brings up your heroe’s atrocious record of murdering innocent people? Carly Fiorina is a lesser evil than Trump. Should we celebrate her as well? I am of the philosophy that to be worthy of praise…

A murderous, international law breaking drone campaign that kills innocent people literally 90 percent of the time. The assassination of American citizens without due process. The suppression and abuse of whistleblowers amidst unprecedented secrecy. Victims of torture denied their day in court. American soldiers who…

When are we going to pass a federal anti-corruption act and get lobbyists’ money out of politics?

Fair enough. And my opinion is just my own and not worth much at all. You get a lot of stars for a reason: you’ve built up the trust of this community, and I don’t think that’s a small thing. You’re more visible, and when you come for people like Hoyo whoeverthefuck, or you get all bent up over something that’s kinda…

When someone speaks of virtuoso vocalists and uses Kurt Cobain as an example of one, then everything they say is automatically discredited.