Well, good to see you all are still ready to wield wokeness as a cudgel to take down any candidate to the left of a republican from 1975. I’m sure it’s all in good faith.

Oh, definitely. Why would anyone care about what the putative front-runner in the Democratic primary did while he was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee? We need to talk more about an article Sanders wrote while he was outside of any level of government! That’s the important stuff which gives us an insight in to…

Totally. Just like how President Jeb Bush cruised to victory. Because voters didn’t really want a (pretend) “anti-establishment” shift. I mean, the primary is only more than a year away and we’ve had 0 debates where Biden will actually have to discuss his record rather than just remind Democratic primary voters he had…

No question. The vast majority of Democratic legislators are old and/or millionaires (not Biden funnily enough. He’s just old) who will not be at all impacted by another 4 years of trump. Not to mention a whole lot of them would salivate at the chance to blame “the left” for losing to trump instead of obviously…

My wife and I went to lobby against the bill the day the GA senate was set to vote for it. We watched on the cctv feed the various senators who spoke about why they supported or opposed the bill.

Wait, when did we invade Saudi Arabia and topple the Al-Saud monarchy? It must have been a very quick and precise surgical strike because I totally missed it. What did the Taliban have to do with 9/11?

You enjoy casual antisemitism and hate reading. A lovely combination.

When we have a Scandinavian distribution of income then we can have a Scandinavian distribution of the tax burden. Until then, the rich in America have plenty more fat to cut before we have to start looking further down the income ladder. 

Biden is going to get fucked up in the debates. Warren better be on the same stage as him. He has multiple votes that are inexcusable, even to “moderate” Democratic voters. The most egregious being the 2005 bankruptcy bill which is Warren’s specialty. Though I would not be surprised if the DNC does whatever it can to…

“I think a Bernie nomination would almost certainly draw someone like Bloomberg in as an independent candidate....To me, that’s reason enough to shy away from Bernie...”

You also have to keep in mind that the US is far larger and more culturally diverse than many countries, and puts much more emphasis on the freedom of the individual.

As long as that money is not being made illegally

What are they going to get out of dodge with? Their assets aren’t physical “things” which can be picked up and moved. They’re primarily ownership claims in intangible goods which only exist because the US government says they exist. If they want to flee to NZ, they can leave their right to get money from a US…

No, in this case it’s literally taken. No one would pay Microsoft for their “product” because it costs nothing to make an additional copy. The only reason they pay is because Microsoft uses the threat of state violence to take money from people. Without intellectual property laws created by the state, Microsoft would…

That value that Gates earned by having an ownership stake did not take money out of the pockets of those who also worked at the company.

It’s actually a pretty lukewarm take. Since no one could possibly labor enough hours to “earn” billions of dollars, acquiring the amount of money is only possible through ownership. Asking how having ownership is a form of “earning” anything is a perfectly reasonable question. Unless you just accept unquestioningly…

However much we all decide on as a society. Since “owning” assets is only possible with all of society’s permission. Thus society, in our system via the democratic process, gets to choose.

Bill Gates is the worst example of “earning” anything. He literally was only able to make the money because he used government force to coerce people in to giving him money. Without intellectual property law no one would buy windows or ms-dos. Each marginal additional unit costs $0 to produce. So anyone paying…

The origin of “gender testing” came out of the eastern bloc doping programs of the 1950s. Until 1966 there were physical tests where all athletes had to get naked and be looked at by an official. After ‘66 they used chromosome testing. The first athlete to actually get banned because they failed the chromosome test…