According to the wiki, the ex-Turner field now GSU stadium only seats 24,333. So the place probably doesn’t look that ridiculous as long as they have at least 5 figure attendance.

But I would think the “dream” allowed by the system of promotion and relegation is what makes it worthwhile for someone to keep supporting Bumble-upon-Fuck F.C. even when they are stuck down in Football League Two. Or even outside the Football League system in the National League. That there is some possibility of…

Yeah, but me having $90 something thousand left after losing around 10% of my net worth is very different to him having about $1.75 billion left after pissing away $250 million if it was around 10% of his net worth. It’s called the marginal utility of money. It’s also the reason why progressive taxation is fair.

You have a very weird definition of what constitutes a “right”. Do you think a right can only be something given or allowed between individuals? I understand that’s a common position on the libertarian right. But then you also say you aren’t against a single payer system. Which would seem like a contradiction. 

“they’ll spend billions in public funds for their corporate masters without even flinching”

But it’s a bad inch which might make traveling the whole mile much more difficult.

It’s not a Lee biography. It’s a Lee hagiography. It doesn’t explain Lee’s life. It celebrates Lee’s life. You know, the life he lead fighting a war to preserve the right to own people. That’s not what kids read in middle school. Outside of Mississippi at least.

Totally. None of the male candidates get anything negative mentioned about them at all.

It’s pretty funny criticisms made in the context of the Democratic presidential primary are dismissed with a “what about truuuuuuummpppppp!!!!!????” Do they realize trump is the current gop president so his conduct is kind of immaterial for comparing Democratic candidates for the nomination?

My wife’s family lives in Palm Beach County and the number of neighborhoods you see with the word “plantation” in them is unreal. Like, why? Who thought it was a good idea? The area is mostly old people, but they’re all from “up north”. And that area of FL could not have possibly existed in the antebellum era. It must…

This disconnect seems to be based on how the person sees the threat of climate change. If the threat is commensurate to something like Japanese battleship groups steaming toward San Francisco or German tanks pushing across the Maginot Line then the framework is probably barely adequate. But if you don’t really think…

You seem to have some insane notion of “theft” as a “natural” quality that exists outside of a social framework. Theft or stealing is whatever we all define to be theft or stealing.

His defense is he was 16 and he and his Black “best friend” were dressing as each other for some dress up day. The Black friend has apparently confirmed the story. Whether that is a good enough excuse, I don’t know. The fact he was 16 and in high school and not a 20 something undergrad or med school student does seem…

What are you talking about? AOC ran in a contested primary and won. Against a decades long incumbent. That was kind of the big deal. Did you mean the general election?

Here’s an older, pre-Women’s March, general article on the issue with an explanation of both points of view. In regards to people who think signs or slogans which feature female reproductive organs are transphobic, here’s one. And another. And another. That was from about a minute of searching using terms like “march…

You do know the Obama team had control over how funds appropriated by Bush for the bailouts were spent, but chose not to spend the money to mitigate foreclosures, right?

Well, I guess we’re at that point where you are just going to be a shithead because you realize you didn’t come out of this one looking too good and you’ve got nothing no shitty to add because blew your “evidence” load a while back on the discredited “fact check” pieces. I get how you don’t want to admit to a stranger…

It’s not immediately obvious from the post, but from reading the SLC Tribune article it seems what happened is the tax rate (which was just a suggested tax rate) included in the proposition language turned out to be about $10mil per year short for funding the expansion under current projections. So because Utah (and…

As a lawyer, I understand the “truth” your client tells you is not always the same “truth” that comes out at their deposition. So no, I assume a good campaign manager doesn’t just takes their candidate’s word for what’s what.

You’re right. I bet no one even thought to look at what a candidate may have said/done in their 20s. Since no politicians have ever been tripped up by issues or actions from their early adult hood. And there's no point in researching things the opposition might try to dig up, if just to know about it and craft a…