Wow. You think young Black women need to get their mothers to do their laundry? That’s despicable.

Funny. The only internet people I’ve ever experienced both misogyny and racism are Sanders haters. Oh, and here are some “receipts” rather than just blanket accusations.

What do you think they said in the Medium post which explained why they can not/will not release the voting breakdown between “leaders” and “supporters”? Because it wasn’t clear from the post what technical roadblock is preventing a more detailed explanation of how the votes were counted. But you seem to think it was…

The employer also gets a tax benefit from paying compensation as “health care” instead of “salary”. So they have an incentive to make sure as large a portion as possible of an employee’s total compensation is paid in health care contributions. Plus, as you suggest, the situation creates a kind of “golden handcuffs”…

The “71%” is still “paid” by the employee. Because the employer contribution is an element of the employee’s total compensation. The employee is paying for 100% of their health care costs even if some of it is hidden by the employer handling a portion. So your caveat doesn’t make the situation faced by US workers…

For starters, the idea

It would be interesting to find out the identity of these anonymous Senators. It’s not suprising lots of Senators don’t like Warren and Sanders’ policy proposals. But the criticism has been, publicly at least, not “ideological” per se.

What evidence do you have to show administrative expenses of private insurers are the leading driver of health care costs?

The savings don’t come (mostly) from freezing the insurance guys out of their rake. It comes from government monopsony buying power bargaining down the prices providers are able to charge in our current multi-payer system.

Along these lines, it was incredible how the media “amplified” Biden’s “attack line” on Sanders, “For a socialist, you’ve got a lot more confidence in corporate America than I do” when Sanders said something about the amount employers spend on employee health care will come back to employees as wages under M4A.

But “wonks” can be hired and brought in to the administration. Creating a “movement” is much harder to “delegate” to the “experts”. Is there any evidence to suggest Warren will be able to create a movement in the wake of her campaign? Obama did, but it (purposefully or through neglect) dissipated after he was elected.…

Yeah, Carter ran explicitly as the “conservative” in that Democratic primary. Maybe his Habitat for Humanity building, Palestinian (at least not unambiguously, entirely pro-Israel) supporting, soft spoken post-Presidency has given people 40 years after the fact the impression Carter was a “progressive” either in the…

“Strawman” has somehow gone from describing a situation where your opponent is trying to counter “an argument no one made” to a situation where your opponent is countering “an argument people have made, but I don’t want to hear about it”. So basically a new way to say “you’re totally wrong because I said so”.

Weirdly enough the “socialist” Pol Pot Khmer Rouge regime was finally defeated by the “socialist” Vietnamese government in the late 70s, early 80s. And the CIA supported elements of the Khmer Rouge which remained after the Vietnamese pushed them out of Cambodia by making Thailand allow the Khmer Rouge to use Thailand…

Uber’s “usual course of business” argument is so inane it’s embarrassing. It’s also a circular argument which only “works” if you accept as true the exact legal claim Uber is trying to prove with the argument.

The gop, and conservatism in general have always been inherehntly anti-democratic (with a small “d). At least since the passage of all the New Deal legislation. Because their priority is promoting and protecting the needs of the wealthiest members of society, a conservative party can never rely on the democratic…

They might matter. But it is problematic if in a democratic society consumption choices are the most powerful way for citizens to voice their concerns. Since it obviously gives a “louder” voice to people who are able to/do make more and larger consumption choices. Ensuring the principle of “one person, one vote”…

By that thinking anything which showed Clinton and her team were saying politically harmful things could have played a role in her loss. Or is it because the communications weren’t meant for public consumption? Because then the Romney “47 percent” tape was also an illegitimate revelation of his “real” beliefs which…

Wikileaks made Democratic party politicians and officials say and do shitty, politically unpopular things in some cases years before wikileaks existed? I mean, wikileaks definitely wasn’t good for the Democratic party’s 2016 electoral cycle. But it wasn’t a reason for anything. The actual contents of the “bad”…

I’m genuinely considering trying to buy something dirt cheap in a town/suburb around the Great Lakes region. There’s still tons of dying or basically dead towns where houses can be had for less than 50k if they need some work. If climate change starts to get really, really serious in my millennial lifetime then the…