This is great, I’ll be coming back to this one, thanks.

I said nothing of the sort about Democrats. I already rephrased once to help you understand what I’m saying and am not going to do it again. Learn to read. And then re-read that article Trump keeps citing, because it’s fucking nonsense.

Nobody is voting illegally. That is a right wing canard that is totally unsupported by any evidence whatsoever. When you place conditions on people’s ability to vote the sole effect worth considering is that rightful voters are denied their right to vote. There is no evidence to support any other concern. That means…

No, you can’t, because the hurdle is not consistently small. Stop rationalizing harming other people’s inalienable rights for partisan gain, and get some ideas worth voting for.

Prove your citizenship at the polls and Repubs benefit, don’t ask any questions and Dems benefit. It would be nice to take that out of the equation.

I don’t know why you say it’s obvious that “pushing no ID voting would help [Democrats]” unless by saying that you are saying “making it as easy as possible for poor people and people of color to vote would obviously help Democrats”. If more people being able to vote causes Democrats to win, then that’s because that…

Yes, though inconvenient, and you’d have to forgo various situations in which proof of identity is required, like proving you’re of age to drink or picking up controlled medications or getting on a plane. But, the standard of proof varies widely among all of these things, and the more critical to one’s life and…

SJWs are not a thing except in your mind. It’s clear that *you* don’t know a damn thing about social justice or what it takes to achieve it, because you’re falling for right-wing framing that demonizes exactly those things. The people you mentioned who acted imperfectly are just PEOPLE ACTING IMPERFECTLY. Stop whining…

The problem, IMO, is that the specific issue of whether or not opiates are or are not overprescribed is being focused on to the detriment of the actual underlying problems that led to where we’re at now, problems like:

Joey Boots RIP

You’re right — though, please pardon me while I pedantically clarify that “dog-whistle” is a general term used to describe any signal a politician sends that is meant to be clear to some people but not others. “Family values” for example is another dogwhistle that Republicans used for a long time that was meant to be…

I believe that gamer culture is toxic in large part because of the failure of game designers themselves to design ways for players to interact in healthy ways. Folks need to go study some political and behavioral science and stop expecting simple chat streams to emerge healthy group dynamics when it’s beyond clear…

I don’t think that’s accurate. She has no rights to Overwatch, obviously, but this character is someone she created and then published. In most cases publishing automatically infers copyright protections, including for derivative work. Is my understanding.

Gawker was awesome. This comment is very very not.

And I’m speaking for myself—I don’t want the show to have a political stance. But at the same time, individually, these [harassers] aren’t politicians and don’t represent politics. They represent some shit that I probably believed when I was 15.

It’s not a pipe dream. It’s innately responsible and sensible policy. Your belief that it’s too “drastic” is worth exactly nothing. Like, literally nothing. Your theory of change is either nonexistent or completely broken, and your argument contains no reasoning whatsoever. Americans want to pay for health care, and…

“Fake News!” cried the person trying to deny reality for no productive reason

You’re describing, of course, an alternate reality where the DNC didn’t openly impede Sanders’ campaign, where its chair wasn’t open about her preference for Clinton, where the party didn’t recently argue in court it had no obligation to provide a fair primary. Presumably in this alternate reality superdelegates also…

I’m not going to engage in a conversation with someone who rewrites history and calls those who correctly recount it delusional. That shit’s abusive af. Sorry.

Abuh? The Sanders gang, who’ve been so clear and consistent in their outrage over how the 2016 primary was weighted in Hillary Clinton’s favor, are going to demand that the next primary is weighted in their own? Hmm. How about we try a fair contest and see how people feel about that, before we go full strawman on the…