I’m pretty sure if you can’t prove you’re fully aroused during the anthem you’re breaking the Flag Law and Dishonoring The Troops.

Dersh has only publicly committed to being dtf pubescent children, but I’m pretty sure a Black five-year-old could get arrested for Anthem Terrorism.

And, similarly, dozens of terrible things about car ownership. It’s a fucking hassle at best; the clean+private+self-directed vs. cheap+safe+low-upkeep tradeoff obviously depends on degrees of each, but I bet if we put the equivalent cost of each person owning and maintaining a Tesla into subway upkeep it would get…

practical for whom? and for what?

The most prominent American socialist, by many orders of magnitude, is absolutely an unrevolutionary liberal who just wants UHC. I don’t like it either, but for purposes of mutual intelligibility it’s just not practical to define “socialist” or “left” in a way that excludes Bernie Sanders.

I don’t see why the size of the population matters in terms of establishing a racial divide? People don’t have a clue what the numbers are anyway; the average American thinks two-thirds of the population is Black or Latino.

He opened the box as Pandora left it, and now we’re without even a scrap of hope [even though that part of the story never made much sense].

I assumed that the point of background checks was to make private sales and gun shows less practical?

This is just No-True-Socialist, though. I think left politics is on sufficiently sound moral ground for us to admit that some people are both [center-]leftists and awful people, because the awfulness is separate from and contrary to the left politics. The important point is nobody is awful because of being a leftist.

No? I think that was the argument of the Trump>Clinton “left”: that HRC would compromise with Republicans but Trump would be too crazy, thus stopping the bad center-right legislation Clinton would have signed. OOPS.

Walmart actually does allow open carry in Texas (They’re maybe required to by state law?). This is the first confirmation of that I found; a search for ‘open carry walmart’ gets you a whole lot of angry fetishists fuming about having to leave their toys at home and very little actual information.

The morons in the red hats also don’t care.

Wait til you hear about cars!

(you’re getting trolled)

It looks like his particular flavor of reactionary hatred was misogyny, which isn’t at all out of place in the worse sort of online leftist circles. And obviously the whole phenomenon of mass shootings is the ultimate endpoint of toxic masculinity -- it really doesn’t matter what the dude thought about health…

Beto would honestly be a better (or at very least more interesting) candidate if he leaned on his generic-white-guy-ness to let him be more honest and unscripted. It’s maybe irresponsible of him not to.

There are self-described leftists who are also virulent misogynists, which appears to be the case with this kid. The difference is between committing a crime while having an ideology and committing a crime because of an ideology, but of course that’ll never actually enter the broader discourse because OPTICSBOTHSIDES…

HE’S VERY RICH THOUGH DID YOU KNOW?

Getting my oil changed and buying new tires is way shittier than keeping my metro pass topped up.

I think a less decadent society than ours could make elevated train lines into civic monuments rather than rickety eyesores, however many rails they have. Look at the metro systems from the early-/mid-20th century, made by vastly poorer nations with primitive technology, and imagine the same relative level of…