Nothing wrong with challenging conventional wisdom. But modern politics is much more complicated than that. You need polling, focus groups, message consultants. These roles exist because they work. The other side makes very effective use of them. The DSA tends to roll their eyes at this, but they’re bringing a stick…

But you have to get them into office first.

And yet they somehow keep voting for the Republicans who keep fucking them over. This is what I mean about naïveté. You just assume you can tell people something, they’ll believe you, and then vote rationally. You assume they’ll ignore the millions of dollars of corporate ads blasted at them before every election. You…

Trump is actually good at certain things, like manipulating rubes. She’s not even good at that.

I hate GamerGaters and wanted to be sympathetic to her, but spend even five minutes reading about her and it becomes clear she’s a self-promoting fraud and a psycho.

A lot of the new left seems to be under the impression that establishment Democrats cave on everything because they’re weak. That’s not the case at all.

If it were so easy for objects to fall from space and crash onto Earth’s surface, we’d all be dead.

No one’s making you read it, and it’s actually a pretty good article. It does not paint her in a positive light.

I think it’s a pretty good profile, just of a narcissistic idiot who has no chance of winning.

The Democratic party is not center-right, unless you’re so far left that you sympathize with the current Venezuelan government.

No, they’re not. They’re an embodiment of the truism that all politics is local, and they’re giving you a chance to meet a candidate and ask a question or two. You don’t have to talk for long. Also, populace. Populous is an adjective.

It’s not supposed to be. Like I said, I’m ok with socialism. But I see lots of these self-proclaimed socialists screaming “down with capitalism,” and the opposite of capitalism isn’t socialism, it’s communism.

I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with socialism. We dabble in it already. But I hear all these people talking about how they want to abolish capitalism, and it scares me because no one with the slightest fucking clue about anything would ever say that. It doesn’t bode well for the next generation of political…

You’re totally her, aren’t you?

I found it. I had a flash of insight and realized there would be a very prolific article on a certain, um, dramatic encyclopedia. And ended up on a massive forum thread on Kiwi Farms, which I was delighted to learn had something to do with Chris-chan.

I mean, you like living in a country that isn’t (yet) governed like Syria or North Korea, right?

How long did you have to spend in Dedham to write this story? However long it was, I am so, so sorry. But I hope you at least got a chance to go to 50's Diner.

It wasn’t even her district. She just moved there.

Do you have a source for this? I really, really want it to be true.

I know the area very well, and I was laughing at her candidacy long before I came across the Boxster anecdote, which only ensures I’ll be laughing at it for quite a while longer.