Sorry, I mucked up the numbers.. read someone else saying that and didn’t want to think it through. I guess I’m still wrapping my head around how fucking shitty this is.

Still, you’re overstating things somewhat. 50-49 with Collins and Murkowski isn’t completely hopeless, at least as far as protecting Roe.

And while my…

Lol, you’re kidding right? You want Mitch McConnell should have had two seats to steal?

1. You’re mistaken; the Republicans have 49 votes without McCain.

The Senate is an incredibly arcane legislative body with rules and procedures and processes up the wah. And every vote has a political cost. You’re completely undervaluing all of the myriad ways that Democrats can slow this, make this hurt Republicans, and make them scared to go too far. Being obstinate might or might…

Bwaaahahah. Please, tell me about the last time an “actual leftist” was run by the Democratic Party in a place like Nebraska or Utah? What happened?? I’m on the edge of my seat!

The moderates were never “realistic”, is the thing. If they were, we’d have ponies and rational centrism now and everyone would be happy. It turns out they were the most fanciful thinkers and speakers of all in claiming that if only their reasonable asses got elected, everything would be fine. Shockingly, it’s been…

Your theory of change is complete garbage. This is a recipe for giving more shitty people power and nothing more. It’s not strategic, it’s not somehow tactically wise, it’s got nothing to do with pragmatism. It’s simply craven, 1-dimensional thinking that places holding power above everything else, including how you…

I think you’re misusing the term “lefty”. Lefties aren’t generally fans of Bill Clinton nor are they generally partisan Democrats. You’re thinking of centrists.

And more broadly I have issues with the kind of logic you seem to be pursuing — in part because many, many men left of center want to hold themselves and…

I wish he hadn’t, because WJC needs to get all of the grief on this. And I think Democrats, too, need to ask themselves whether having his back was really the right thing to do, especially given the context of the current Presidency where much worse malfeasance is now being rallied behind by the Republican base in…

Absolutely this is the correct read here. I’ve little doubt Obama will give Carter a run for his post-presidency money as soon as his existence stops being such an effective catalyst for awful jerks.

Jason’s right too though, anarcho-capitalists aren’t anarchists

Small ”l”. Veit is absolutely right.

I’m still waiting for the media to turn their focus towards the fact that Trump learned how to act this way right here in their own backyard. Time to start looking for bodies right here at home IMO.

You gotta read the New Yorker piece. It’s excruciating. And the reporting seems beyond reproach. It seems possible that some actual kink, potentially valid in a totally different context, is part of the ragged patchwork of Schneiderman’s twisted mind, but that possibility ends up being totally irrelevant to the events…

Well put, there. As I once heard someone formulate in response to someone saying “cops are people too”: cops are made of people. In that uniform, with that badge, in that gang, and with that license to kill, they’re not people anymore — they’re an instrument of the violence of the state. The state can tell them to…

I have to say I’ve never really understood why people have a problem with BSG’s ending. Maybe you can help me understand. I wonder what folks wanted to see happen and whether it was really in the spirit of the show. I remember it being super sad, but mostly because I wouldn’t get to see these characters anymore, and…

“Smeared”? Nah.

Your “real-world experiments” are clearly clearly cherry-picked to validate your assumptions, and your two “facts” are far from painting a usefully complete picture of the world. So, your philosophy seems to consist mainly of projecting your own flaws onto everyone else. Fortunately, it’s bullshit. Most of us try to…

Fluidity is an advantage to capital that is disconnected from locality, I.e. human society. It is not an advantage to anyone else. It is a disadvantage to everyone else. It is, by definition, sociopathic.

1) I did read your answer. You noted that money moves freely but incorrectly positioned it as some kind of intrinsic quality of money, which it is not. And you incorrectly asserted that capitalists would prefer borders to also be opened to people, which they would not.