For one, pretending like the only opponents of trans women participating in female athletic competitions are right wing bible thumpers who love the patriarchy is already making it difficult to express one’s objections to trans womens participation in female sports. Since the “original” objectors were left wing…

Medicare For All (and the various bills introduced already to implement M4A) explicitly address the problem of health care costs. It’s part of the single payer model. The government will use its monopsony power as the “single” buyer of health care to force down costs. The similar but opposite way monopoly sellers are…

I understand the NRA won’t “let” any type of restrictions happen if they can help it. The only solution is to make their efforts immaterial to political outcomes.

A handgun ban would be a good start. The guy wouldn’t have got in the door if he was carrying a long gun.

All of the female candidates are having a problem gaining traction. Even the best performing female candidate (Warren). It seems like a major reason is Democratic primary voters think other people don’t want to vote for a woman, therefore they can’t let a woman be the nominee if they want to beat trump.

Is it super weird the main focus has been on the statements of the leader of the House, the chamber which actually impeaches a President under the rules of the constitution? Huh. I never thought of it that way. But then again, I’m not an idiot or a hack. So I guess I don’t have that kind of genius level ability to…

While Chait is a disingenuous shit head, he writes for New York Magazine not the New York Times.

Where do you practice? Because even in my local federal district court judges “tell jokes” all the fucking time. In federal court at least they aren’t making political “jokes”. But the judges and magistrates are yukking it up on the bench and in orders.

The worst part about judges telling “jokes” is everyone in there is incentivized to pretend they’re funny! The judge can literally send you to jail, make sure you lose money, hurt your career, or even just make you have to sit there all day. I hate that about being a lawyer. Having to pretend these guys are fucking…

I have had to listen to judges “tell jokes” as a law student sitting through speeches, a lawyer getting patronized (or seeing the other guy get patronized) from the bench or in an order, and most recently as a prospective juror in a god damn child molestation case where the judge was cracking himself up during voir…

Which part is a strawman? The way I interpret their insidiously phrased fluff statements? Or how they have a deontological belief in the moral primacy of protecting private property? What do you even think “strawmanning” (sic) actually means? It doesn’t mean “argument put in to words in a way I don’t like hearing”.…

You’re correct no one can afford to spend hundreds of millions (at least) to buy a high level pro sports team while remaining among the angels. But private ownership isn’t the only possible way to organize and run a professional sports club. With club being the operative word. All over the world there are many…

Every case I’ve been involved with “right of control” has just been one factor among many and been overcome by other factors going the other way.

They can’t do that because they wouldn’t be able to have such tight control over the drivers driving under the “uber” brand. They want to make sure people don’t have a “bad” experience so they’ll keep using uber.

That’s not the sole or even main factor for determining whether an independent contractor is actually an employee. There are 6 factors courts look at to determine the nature of the relationship. At least for FLSA matters. The 6 factors are:

Empower everyone to find fulfilling work: Translation - Cut any safety net program which lets people be lazy and not work without the fear of dying from starvation or exposure to the elements. Which is all of them.

Regardless of bad wait times for ERs, we still need single payer now.

So was that just a long winded version of “I was wrong”? I see you didn’t try and defend your claim that the US isn’t an urban nation. Or that changing the way votes are distributed to make it so urban and rural votes have equal representation is somehow “disenfranchising” rural voters.

So you don’t actually understand what socialism is then? Even in the broadest sense of the word as its been used throughout history. Because “central planning” and “socialism” aren’t synonyms. Socialism concerns ownership of the means of production. How the “things” created when the means of production are combined…

I think we’ve seen way more problems with societies where there is minority rule. In fact, what examples do you have where there were problems with majority rule? Don’t say “Hitler”. He didn’t win the 1932 election, he was appointed chancellor in 1933. Then he implemented a dictatorship which is the opposite of…