We “confiscate” wealth all the time here in the land of the crew and home of the brave. It’s called the “capital gains tax”. It’s great, but unfortunately too low.

What’s to respect about the “service” of military personnel in the 21st century? Is it the goat herder killing? The major life event bombing? The invention of cool new “totally not torture” interrogation techniques?

So you’re in “the middle” because of what someone said about republicans, regardless of the implications for policies you claim to support?

“it’s in their name, so it must be true” is not actually an argument anyone who supports Antifa makes about why Antifa are anti-fascist. It’s a stupid straw-man argument Antifa hating supporters of fascism attribute to their fascism hating enemies.

Ha! I’d never even thought of that. You might be right. But to be honest, I do not think more than a tiny percentage of the right wing antifa haters would be able to tell you what the word “intifada” means or that it’s associated with the Palestinian resistance movement.

Yup. If Antifa are recognized as actually being “anti-fascist” then it would require the gop and their supporters (plus their media enablers) to confront the question of why do the people who physically/rhetorically attack Antifa closely associated with the gop? Antifa fights fascists, the people Antifa fight are…

It must be the first, right? ANTI-FAscist. Not AN-TIFAscist. The second makes no sense.

Call the whaaambulance. The great thing about calling someone an “angry misogynist” who has some “questionable feelings about people of color” is you don’t need to provide any evidence. Apparently the accusation is good enough to require complete disassociation.

Yeah, maybe don’t be that guy.

I’m sorry if it comes off that way, but people who make stupid points with a condescending attitude concerning subjects about which they are clearly not well informed make me a bit “peevish”. Especially when you make an effort to provide information from experts who address all of their pretty dumb points (since I…

Thanks pal! My ears were burning so I thought I’d come check it out. Always a pleasure bumping in to you.

No worries. I know it’s hard for some people to read and process more than a little bit at a time. Especially when they’re reading something about a topic they don’t fully understand.

‘“feel the need to argue with people making the no-judgment statement “Bernie Sanders’s platform really isn’t all that socialist.”’

Thanks for the vivid description of my sartorial and beverage choices. I try to be more concise, but sometimes the juices just get glowing, ya know? Though when you have to deal with the political message board equivalent of the Alpha Betas it’s sometimes tough to let ‘em know in so few words. I kind of like how Kinja…

Totally brah. Though as they say, whoever smelt it dealt it.

Are you now using the word “socialize” to mean “regulate”? Because I don’t see how the government regulating the way corporations make decisions is socializing anything. How does it change the ownership structure of the corporation itself? Individual capitalists still have the same legally enforceable claim to returns…

The only person getting worked up here is you it seems. Projection much? But this is a time honored way to delegitimize an argument without addressing the argument itself. Say the person making the argument is getting “worked up” to imply they are starting to move away from rational discourse and are instead getting…

You literally said “calm down” and “Goddamn, you are sensitive, huh”. That isn’t a substance of anything. Unless the meat of your beef is how something was said.

“Socializing health insurance does not lead to a socialist economy. It leads to...socialized health insurance.”

No, sparky. Socializing a large sector of the economy is on the “socialism” side of the spectrum. It’s inherently “anti-capitalist” because it reduces the need for private capital in the American economy.