The Daily Wire has become increasingly rabid. It always employed a bunch of racists and promoted racist narratives and ideologies, it’s the personal ego-fluffer of Ben Shapiro and that’s pretty much his brand, but lately I’ve noticed a lot more “Daily Wire writer does/says horrific thing” stories. It really needs to…

Please dismiss your Hindutva troll. 

That and in most socialized medical systems people who want to drop extra money for more “elite” care usually can. No one is going to stop you from bankrupting yourself because you fell for the shiny marketing materials of some small private healthcare group. 

Bonding between racist far-right nationalists with an unhealthy fetish for assaulting Muslims. I’m sure it warms the molding decayed shreds of some Twitter neo-Nazi’s heart.

Stop spamming this. You’ve made this comment a dozen times. I’m pulling this out of the greys in hopes that you’ll stop now that you’ve made you point. 

He might be able to, now, but buying habits like that are generally formed earlier in life. People who grew up without healthcare are less likely to see the doctor for minor issues, sometimes to their detriment. These things have subconscious influences as well.

You don’t need to trust them, there’s obvious self-interest in limiting environmental damage. There’s also been, for China, quite a bit of local discontent over environmental issues. Authoritarian regimes are resistant to discontent, not immune, and so the government has been taking steps to try and mollify that anger…

Those takes are rampant. 

They’ve always got a thing for me. Though I’ve got to say it mostly underscores my point about Reason. I know there used to be some decent work they’d publish, but in the Trump era it’s just become another place to launder disingenuous right-wing takes.

Deliberate understatement, I’m not interested in re-litigating the issue.

...you think there are suits that aren’t being made by kids in Bangladesh at a price point most Americans can afford?

Definitely broadcasting my class here but the majority of suits I’ve owned came from Kohl’s? Might have had one or two from various other big retail outlets around the same price-point.

Fuck Reason and every disingenuous cretin that writes for them and supports their increasing flirtation with the far-right. It’s basically Quillette-lite now, and abhorrent trolls like Cathy Young as why. White privilege run amok combined with pseudo-intellectualism that’s off the charts. 

There’s that very self-conscious “I’m a smart person” posture some people adopt. They skim intro books. They don’t really grasp the substance, but they know the right terms to toss out to appear as a dumb person’s idea of a smart person. That’s what I mean. The guy who whines about Boasian anthropology because he’s…

There’s inefficiency in having an extra system for people over 55 though. Just in administrative costs alone you’d be wasting money. The benefit of a single system with one administrative structure is the lower costs, both monetary and in work hours, to provide care. 

“Policy unpopular if you frame it in dishonest heavily negative terms”.

Feel free. I’ve ranted on this topic a lot, because I’ve gotten stuck with “debate me!!!” libertarians quite a bit. Plus poli sci departments are always lousy with their type, even at small schools there’s always that one kid carrying a briefcase and making snide remarks to professors. 

I don’t know. I think Libertarians are, by and large, incompetent charlatans devoted to an incoherent ideology of selfishness that makes them feel special, but most of the ones I’ve met are well read. They don’t truly understand the concepts, but they’ve been introduced to them. There are some who promote their weird…

The DNC is over-reacting to the perception that the last cycle was far too favorable to Clinton I think. So now they’ve swung too far in the other direction and are leaving the pool really broad to avoid that same criticism (which got pretty heated and may have depressed turnout).

The most hilarious part about this feud between two idiotic devils is that Paul, in a tweet, called himself a “Realist”. I can’t decide if he knows that’s an actual school of foreign policy thought or he doesn’t and used the term ignorant of how it’d be read. Both are kind of hilarious, because his conspiratorial…