Wow, what an interesting and insightful comparison. The USA and Zimbabwe are really similar. It’s almost scary how similar they are. You must be a Professor of Economic History at Harvard or something like that. But you forgot to talk about Weimar Germany. And Greece. You can’t make a proper mindless, idiotic comment…

I know, right? People will just clap and cheer for all the tax increases! You are such a Very Serious Pragmatist. Like, when Bernie Sanders released a Medicare for All plan with large tax increases you were all “yeah, people won’t care at all about tax increases because they’ll instinctively understand they will be…

Why would they be embarrassed? They agree with all of this shit.

Sorry, when did the Democratic party ever call for “states’ rights” as a good thing in and of itself? Well, post 1968 that is. The Democratic party actually has policy goals and they are willing to use the federal or state government to achieve those goals without thinking one is inherently better or more…

So, for the first time ever I have a (very tenuous) connection to something in the news. Which is cool. I guess.

Yes. That’s what is happening now. While that equilibrium may eventually settle it will cause a bunch of problems that can be avoided by not just letting the “free market” decide with the belief it’ll all work out in the end (and that’s not even getting in to whether a market where essential components are subsidized…

“Unlimited” pre-medallion. Not an unlimited number of medallions. Before the medallion system was instituted the number of for-hire cars on the streets of NYC was literally not limited by any government restrictions.

I don’t have “faith” in the medallion system. I would be more than happy for there to be a non-price way to ration the number of for hire drivers on the streets. I have faith in a centralized system of rationing for certain goods. Goods that use common, finite resources and create externalities that are passed on to…

Government didn’t “create the problem”. The medallion system was a way to deal with actual problems caused by unlimited numbers of for hire cars driving around a small area with little to no quality control for the car or its driver.

For gods sake, what is it with “centrist” Democrats and all this adult/baby talk? What is it with you people and your insatiable need to call everyone who disagrees with you a “child”, telling them “to grow up”, etc.? It’s like you all have this verbal tic which you can’t stop yourself from doing when you are…

You understand in the senate the bill could not have passed (due to the use of the filibuster) if the 16 Democratic senators voted “yes”, right? So the fact the gop has a bare majority in the house and senate and controls the presidency doesn’t absolve the Democratic legislators who voted for this bill. Those…

The way the so woke, “twitter blue check-mark progressives” have erased the voices of PoC as part of their crusade against their political enemies on the left is pretty disgusting. Especially for people who like to claim “representation matters”.

“Not going to engage with the continued “you are this” assertions you make above, which are deliberately trolling bullshit at this point.”

Right on! No one is entitled to expect their elected representative will represent their interests and then publicly push for them to do so if they believe their representative has not followed through on the agenda they proposed while campaigning for office. We get what ever shit Obama chooses to give us and we…

Yeah, the fringe far leftists who no one cares about were also directly responsible for trump getting elected president via their damaging thinkpieces on the internet. It’s crazy how Hamilton Nolan can be a meaningless bullshitter AND have so much influence with the Democratic base that his words could depress turnout…

Yeah, like the marginalized communities in the immediate vicinity of his new shrine who asked him to sign a Community Benefit Agreement. Which he promptly responded to with a hearty “fuck off”. But they were probably just a group of Purity Pony BernieBros who secretly moved in to the neighborhood just to wreck Obama’s…

Jesus fucking christ dude, sip an aged single malt scotch, stop listening to pod save america and slow down on your white-kniting for a multi-millionaire who was just a few years ago the most powerful person on the planet. The Barack Obama Presidential Center staff aren’t surfing the internet trying to find the most…

Thanks pal! I appreciate your very interesting engagement with my comment!

I know you want to believe that “neoliberal” is some meaningless term immature children made up one day just to shame you for your Very Serious beliefs. But it’s actually a real thing that describes a real ideology with real adherents and real power in the world. Like the Mount Pelerin Society on the right to the…

Totally. Cuck, a racialized psycho-sexual term describing a man who lets other men have sex with “his” woman (especially a Black man having sex with a white man’s white woman) is exactly the same as neoliberal, a word which describes an actual political program which was used (and still is) by people who subscribe to…