I’m sorry, but you are entirely mistaken on several counts:

1. Capitalists already have open borders — for their money. This is not some automatic thing; this is new as of the 80s, and stems both from technological change and also, just as critically, from policy regimes and free trade agreements. And no, they don’t…

Yes, I support open borders, and so should you. Why? Because closed borders are essential to the fucked economic arrangements of neoliberal globalization which you have been duped into believing those very same borders are going to protect you from.

There were about 30 seconds of this episode during which I was completely done with this show in every single way: immediately after Rick slashed Negan’s throat, and before he told Siddiq to save him.

That’s because what I have been waiting for this show to come around to for 8 full seasons is the fact that in an…

See, that all sounds nice and reasonable, except that the authorities have absolutely no trouble applying extremely general, even downright nebulous legal concepts like “disorderly conduct” and “intent to distribute” and “obstructing governmental administration” and “walking down the street in a somehow way I decided…

A frustrating number of reasons: http://www.shure.com/americas/support/find-an-answer/noise-problems-caused-by-audio-cable

Of course not — it’s a fallacy because you’re presenting a binary choice between two options — not using a paywall and the content not existing at all — when in fact there are other completely legit and demonstrably efficacious ways to fund content without a paywall.

False dilemma fallacy, nice.

If you don’t really care about access, then sure.

Cool, so the solution is obviously for every newspaper to be owned by a billionaire.

It’s been widely reported that many Republicans changed their vote on the Common Sense Caucus proposal at the end of the process because Trump changed his mind.

Yes, yes it is.

OK, you’re right, I sort of inadvertantly straw-manned you a bit there. I apologize. I still disagree, at least as pertains to this last agreement that Trump acted like he’d accept but then torpedoed (demanding the ‘four pillars’ including those things that neither you nor I want to give him). I disagree because:

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*Some* Democrats didn’t support it. We can assume a lot more of them did than the number that ended up voting for it, or it would never have gotten as far as it did. That’s just the math here.

And yes, they do have that power. I explained above why they have that power. If you’re going to dispute that please challenge…

Yes, I’m sure Republicans will wail in terror while Democrats genially forgive and forget, as is the hallowed custom in our time-honored land.

On that last point, I wish Congress minded being the villain, but for some reason, they don’t. Individual members of Congress’ approval ratings are only distantly linked to peoples’ impression of Congress overall. “I hate Congress, but I love my congressperson” is (according to polsci apocrypha) one of those patterns…

Then you’re trading some human beings for others — a choice that no one should ever be forced to make, and a choice that no one should ever accept.

Yes, and they deserve credit for that. But remember that once a member of Congress knows a bill will not pass, the math about whether to vote yay or nay frequently changes quite a bit. The fact that this ‘bipartisan compromise’ was ever put on the table to begin with tells you that some proportion of Democrats were…

The criticism I hear isn’t that trying is a waste of time, it’s that trying now is a worse option than trying later. I agree with this argument. It will materially harm millions in a horrible Faustian bargain wherein Dreamers trade their own dreams for those of their families. It’s fucking evil as shit.

The idea that…

Tooth infections are serious business, matterafact. I knew a guy who died from one once. I’ve had a couple pretty scary ones myself. “Sickness gets in through the mouth”, I have heard more than a few times. Because, well, you do know what’s really close to the mouth, right?

The sorry state of dentistry and dental…

Maybe you’re less of an asshole than you think you are. Maybe.