The article is supposed to prove what’s been clear to any serious observer for years: that the American policy in both Syria and the greater Middle East is totally schizophrenic, that we have no over-arching strategy or vision for what we’re supposed to be accomplishing. We’ve had an AUMF that gives us carte blanche…

This post and the comments thread is an object lesson in how partisanship makes people incredibly stupid. In another comment, people keep mocking someone for saying that the United States is supporting Al-Nusra and that a no-fly zone would require boots on the ground, both of which are absolutely correct. But because…

No, he didn’t. He accurately reflected the fact that the United States has armed and assisted Al-Nusra, which is a rebranded Al-Qaeda. He’s saying something accurate and he’s being mocked for it by a lot of people who don’t know what they’re talking about.

He’s right. He’s just correct.

It means exactly that - there’s no way to establish a no-fly zone without boots on the ground, as absolutely any credible analysis of that proposal will tell you. Do ten seconds of research before you guys go for the full “hurr hurr Democrats are good so you must be wrong” routine. Jesus.

He’s 100% correct.

I like the comment where everyone is making fun of the guy for saying that Obama’s admin is supporting Al-Nusra when, in fact, the Obama admin is supporting Al-Nusra.

Would you ever say that about the same accusations against a Republican candidate? Does it ever occur to you what partisanship does to your brain?

You know I went on Twitter and looked around. And of course Democrats were giving every rape-denying cliche in the book - Juanita Broaddrick’s a slut, they say, she was asking for it, she’s in it for the money.... And now, here, at the wokest comment section on the internet, it’s the same.

You know, I’ve thought about this maybe more than anything else in my life. I guess the two most important facts of my childhood were, first, that my parents raised us to have immense freedom as children - the freedom to come and go without supervision or limits, the freedom to watch or read or say anything we liked,…

I don’t really disagree with you. I do want you to remember that you have a natural psychological bias to hope that your life will be radically longer than the human norm, and this bias will inevitably color your analysis of whether such a thing is likely. And it’s important for everyone to recognize that they are…

So I think there’s a difficult conversation to be had about the fact that one of the biggest contributors to recidivism is when people can’t get work after a felony conviction. You could certainly make the case that sports is the entertainment business and the rules should be different, and I might agree, but I also…

Thought this was so well put.

In his prime, Evander Holyfield’s BMI was “obese” level.

I’ve always found these personal assistant “AIs” to be very underwhelming and nothing Google has unveiled looks likely to change my mind. They just duplicate other functions that are just as easily done in other ways.

“Joe Biden is good” has gotta be one of the saddest contemporary liberal convictions. His treatment of Anita Hill was some of the most flagrantly misogynistic slut-shaming I can imagine. A brutal, sexist character assassination. And now liberal Democrats treat him like good ol’ uncle Joe.

I was never much of a Bernie Sanders guy.

I’m not a Trump supporter; I’m a socialist.

No, I’m not conflating them. I’m saying that both of them have, as pretty much all rich people do, gone out of their way to pay the lowest taxes possible, and I’m further saying that we should focus on eliminating those loopholes and raising tax rates both.

You realize that many of Hillary Clinton’s harshest critics are people like people of color like Michelle Alexander and Adolph Reed, right? Are you just incapable of giving a substantive response, other than “it’s racist to criticize Hillary Clinton for her record as a moderate conservative”?