I’m left-wing. I want a left-wing party. The Democrats are a center-right party. You are entitled prefer center-right politics if you’d like. But the idea that it’s fundamentally crazy for me to want a legitimate left-wing alternative in American politics is strange to me.

Look, do your research; there are tons of ways in which the Clintons have paid artificially low taxes. The fact that she’s paid a lot only shows how absurdly wealthy she’s become, thanks to her speaking gigs for Goldman Sachs and the rest of the plutocrats in our country.

lol no she’s a notorious tax dodger:

She’s made a significant portion of that money directly serving the interests of our rentier class, and since different social classes are in inevitable and necessary conflict with each other, that’s a problem.

Someone with hundreds of millions of dollars endorsed a center-right candidate who has hundreds of millions of dollars herself?

No artist is ever obligated to give any fans what they think they want, and no fans are ever entitled to dictate to artists what they have to do in their art. Fanfic, discussion, fan art, just fantasizing about what you want to happen - great. Insisting that you have the right to dictate what happens with characters…

Personally, as an MMA fan I have never loved these trilogies, with a few exceptions. Fighters just don’t have that many fights in them in their prime and I’d almost always rather see a new matchup than a rubber match. I know that’s not a very popular opinion though.

His campaign started rumors that John McCain fathered an illegitimate black child in order to discredit him and he was the president while Katrina drowned.

I would argue that’s also his weakness, though - he’s too susceptible to having his analysis be colored by his anger at the supporters of a given candidate. He and his compatriot Harry Enten completely lost their cool with Bernie Sanders supporters and it colored all of their coverage from then on. That’s not being…

The thing is, all of this “it’s a forecast, not a prediction” only has value  if you say it before your forecasts fail. Like, when he was getting a full-on tongue bath from the media in 2012, he wasn’t making all of these caveats and provisos. And that’s when they really matter. It’s only after his incredibly…

This shit is exactly what we’ve been telling conservatives we don’t do for years. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to argue with conservatives who think that the left wants to completely exclude conservatives from public life, telling them no, that’s a right-wing delusion. And yet here we are. Do people not…

Right - everyone who gets a MacArthur, with very few exceptions, already has enough money to live on. It’s baffling.

I will never understand why people are so eager to give monetary rewards to artists and writers who already have demonstrated that they can support themselves financially. Why not give out $62,500 awards to 10 times as many people who don’t yet have firm financial footing, MacArthur?

One more time: putting the word censorship in scare quotes is not an argument. I know contemporary progressives find it difficult to actually argue about free expression, but you do actually have to come up with an argument, rather than dismissing the issue out of hand by using an empty dog whistle like scare quotes.…

Particularly frustrating that so many well-meaning, progressive people seem to define racism purely in terms of attitudes and language rather than structural economic forces. You can’t solve this by yelling at people for using problematic language on Twitter. But that stuff sucks up such a huge portion of the…

the Eagles firmly believe they have their quarterback for a long, long time.

Very well put.

I think this is just right. The suburban ideal of “a lawn for every home” is the worst of both worlds - neither the aesthetically pleasing and useful reality of usable open space or the value of residential density. Instead you have all of this water-hungry small plots of grass that fulfill little other than to…

Imagine fixating on someone so much and yet being too afraid to confront them under your real name.

Yeah I’m less concerned with these whackadoos than I am with the number of progressives online who are celebrating this development. The tweets about it are very disturbing.