Hand out finger traps to the assembled Problem Solvers, and I guarantee you won’t hear from any of them for at least three months.

Puddy’s analysis was shorter than yours but correct (I can’t comment on whether you and Puddy are truly “bros”).

This is a pretty disingenuous argument in that you conflate some job loss with major job loss, and then imagine a hard-hearted communist lecturing a worker about how his or her job loss is necessary for some program of confiscation/redistribution, etc. No doubt, the secretly aligned communist intellectuals and…

At any rate, you can see them trying to automate as much as possible right now, and I doubt, say, Panera, is only using self serve kiosks in places with high minimum wages.

You’re argument requires a pile-on. As chemiclord pointed out, automation is already taking away jobs without minimum wage increases, but what is also really bad about your argument is that it assumes that employers won’t automate jobs unless the minimum wage goes up. If employers can successfully automate a job, they…

The patio outside Satriale’s Pork Store is different than I remember it...

Yes - the President can pardon federal offenses, not state offenses, and yes above, Mueller is spreading the jurisdictional footprint of this case for just that purpose.

Internet agreement acheived. I think I can assume we agree can have some or a lot of socialism without becoming Romania or Venezuela, just like we can have some or a lot of markets without becoming Franco’s Spain or Portugaul in the 1950s-60 (despotic, sclerotic backwaters).

How about socialist solutions in areas where capitalism, markets, and/or privatisation has failed?

I would offer this: the bastard here are not the grunts in the trenches, but Sinclair and it’s management. If Sinclair wasn’t ramming this stuff down their throats, none of them would be doing it, and I know this because local news has never looked like this. I checked out my local affiliate, and the “videos” section…

Discerning between views and ideas that have value and those that do not is not creating an “echo chamber”, it’s an integral part of healthy discourse.

How about thinking about stuff, and when you come up with the thing you think at the end, post just that, instead of all the stuff you thought?

“Also, my whole point was that this is a systemic problem in manufacturing rampant throughout the US, but here we’re singling out this guy because he’s rich and he’s not spending his money the way we think he should.”

“An alternate perspective in the interest of sanity:”

Damn... a whole comment mocking one of the most important aspects of a free society. When an author writes a peice and posts it on a website... he or she isn’t spitting in the faces of all the site’s visitors that disagree with him or her. No one is forced to read an article they don’t like. The author is…

When the police give Nazis a pass that they don’t extend to other people, they are clearly “determin[ing] who they believe is moral enough to receive their services”. If you’re reading the article, and “don’t think that’s a good idea”, you should understand the “outrage”.

Do conservatives care about anything other than how things look, or are they just unable or unwilling to express their beliefs?

Republicans were in the majority in 2013, as they are now.

This is %100 what good journalists would do.

What a great ambassador!