I mean, the Trump administration has blamed the Obama administration for a shortage of tests for a disease that didn’t exist until nearly 3 years after Obama left office, so I have no doubt that Republicans will try hard to pin the blame on Democrats if no relief package is passed by Friday.

Democrats should not budge on any aspect of the relief package, but the key issue is whether it will include provisions allowing businesses and other entities to escape responsibility if their negligence gets people infected or killed, which McConnell is adamant be included in any package. Dems should not fall for…

Probably most small business owners have a fairly high net worth—without it, it would be nearly impossible to live given that owning a business doesn’t exactly provide a regular source of income (or any really). You could maybe reasonably expect someone worth over a million dollars to keep staff on payroll during a…

I guess we were reading different articles, because nowhere in this article is the only alternative to the “conversation” being criticized “force.” I mean, in the article I read, the author gives a specific example of the sort of alternative to the insufficient “conversations” being criticized, and that was a boycott.…

We’re not stuck.  We could just leave.

Killing Saddam Hussein is not the only result of the Iraq War. Calling that war, which has resulted in around 200,000 civilian casualties, “disastrous” is an understatement.

Are you talking about my reply to JustAnotherBurner?  Because their comment started with “Yeah, this is a terrible take,” so I’m not sure (1) I was the one who started being a dick and (2) that they “nearly-but-don’t-quite agree with” me. 

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/pandemic-bar-exam-inequality.html

Okay, but I’m not suggesting getting rid of all zoning policies, nor am I advocating any free market ideal to fix all housing problems. I am pointing out that a large lever of Biden’s housing plan, reducing zoning policies that restrict the building of multifamily housing that would tend to be more affordable, and so,…

I agree. I also don’t see the protests (or even the riots) as attempting to accomplish anything by force or threat of force, even despite the popular “no peace without justice” meme, which I take to just be particularly fiery (albeit hollow) rhetoric.

Lol, given that you just found out about the existence of zoning in Texas like, three hours ago, I’m going to go ahead and say you are nowhere near qualified to assess the impact of the hundreds of different zoning policies that exist across the all various municipalities, cities, towns, counties, etc. of Texas. 

And as I originally said- these sorts laws don’t seem to make much of a difference in what’s actually developed in the suburbs it’s lack of demand and NIMBY that are the real barriers to multi-family and high-density housing being viable in the suburbs.

I’m not advocating for any particular “free market” solution, I am pointing out that getting rid of restrictive zoning policies is pro free market. 

I never made any assertions about what any Texas county’s/town’s/city’s/municipality’s zoning policies were. All I said about Texas, in response to your idiotic assertion, was that, yes, Texas has zoning.

Texas has zoning. To take just one example from your list of cities: http://www.rockwall.com/planning/. So I’m not sure what you are talking about. 

So an interesting thing about my comment, which I’m not entirely sure actually read, is I never used the words “low-income housing.” I also never said that the market should be left to itself. What I did point out was that in a lot of places, zoning policies restricting the type of housing that can be built (not…

So, one of the major problems of housing, one specifically relevant to the suburbs, are zoning policies that restrict the ability to build sufficient housing to meet demand. In other words, a lot of places, especially the suburbs, have zoning policies that interfere with market forces that would otherwise build more…

No. You can figure it out by comparing details of the 5 kids who diedof COVID to publicly available reports of children who have been shot and killed. Even assuming that the medical examiner only listed COVID as the cause of death and didn’t mention that the child had been shot at all (which in itself strains…

I think it’s a pretty bad faith reading of rhetoric like “the time for talk is over” to assume that it is referring to initiating an armed military conflict, and even worse bad faith to then be dismissive of anyone who uses that rhetoric as not serious.  After all, “the time for talk is over” is pretty common activist…

I think “rhetorical persuasion” is part and parcel of what all protest and other grass roots movements are about—that’s why they all have slogans. But what does “having conversations” even mean? When has the anti-abortion movement ever engaged in “conversation”? Do you perceive the civil rights movement as having been…