I read a lot about how fragile the GOP was during those fights. That was definitely something that was discussed. The level of open warfare within the party was a lot higher. They were already consistently running primaries against each other, for one, and that’s without talking about some of the stunts on issues like…

Swing voters do exist, they just are a far smaller fraction of the electorate and not worth significant investment in most elections. But in a high polarization environment they’re even less relevant. The people who might switch parties will probably do so near the last minute based on highly personalized reasons that…

Of course the cop who is actually trying to deescalate and concerned about civilians around him gets a gun pulled on him. It’s so very America that a good cop behaving correctly would get threatened.

On one hand, I’m exhausted and mostly furious with the risk-averse Democratic leadership that still think it’s the ‘90s and that “appealing to Republicans” is a necessary electoral strategy. It ignores mountains of evidence, from political science to the daily experiences they as career politicians ought to be able to…

My background in history, including reading aDNA papers and discussing issues of ethnicity in the archaeological and historical record, absolutely informs my view here, which you so defensively have claimed I don’t understand. I’m not a geneticist, but I do read enough genetics papers to understand how population…

Approximations. Educated, well, I’d dispute that given it relies on genetic essentialism that people in the aDNA world reject, as well as historians and archaeologists.

Different companies of course have different proprietary sample databases too, meaning people get different results from two companies. Usually not wildly different, but I’ve seen different enough to raise the question of the entire methodology.

They’ve been burying those reporters under promoted segments for their “HillTV” nonsense and filling their executive suites with folks from the worst right-wing outlets. Their trendlines are going a bad way. 

I suspect that is not measuring their total output, including their significantly right-wing “HillTV”. I’ve also seen that site have wildly implausible claims one or twice in other situations, so I’m not sure I think their methodology is strong. 

I dismissed a single troll I’ve already interacted with who wrote out a lie, but thanks for vindicating my point. Who is letting your ilk out of the greys? 

FYI, to the many other trolls no doubt starring this troll, I’m going to dismiss responses repeating long discredited lies like that AOC “cost NY Amazon jobs”. 

Want to go ahead and back up your claims? How is it “99% accurate”. Be specific.

The Hill is a gossip rag with a solid-right bias. Their op-ed page is a litany of right-wing grifters and charlatans they give space to. They occasionally run liberal ones too, but they don’t promote those nearly as much as the dishonest and bombastic conservative ones. It is an incredibly trashy site that…

That’s the point of elite-driven opinion shift. Yes, most things can be rationalized away, and it’s not just conservatives the vast majority of barely-political Americans operate under that premise. The smaller class that’s politically engaged do it as well, though it gets muddier there (sometimes they follow elite…

I’d disagree there. There is an ideology, centered around a cluster of beliefs. It’s just that ideology has always been secondary to identity. That most people don’t really adhere to the ideology coherently doesn’t mean it’s not there.

Biden is one of the worst. He’s a prisoner to the instincts he developed in an era that was wildly different and seems incapable of updating himself. 

The tests are a bit dubious. Best to interpret them in a broad fashion too. Some places have much better samples than others (mostly Europe). A friend of mine did one and got results that were highly implausible given her family came from southern Morocco, she had me go over it and I tried to think of a way to…

She really can’t win. Swearing in becomes another thing to be mocked in bad faith by the people who are desperate to do literally everything except engage her points.

I forgot this blog is a haven for shitheads who read the Grayzone Project and think they know a lot about the world. Bloody pathetic. 

Case in point of the sort of abusive anti-logic you pretty regularly see from people who use that label for themselves. The same shitstains that keep supporting Assad in Syria because in their conspiracy addled brain everything the US does is bad because they saw a youtube video claiming to explain “imperialism” that…