“They didn’t do exactly what I wanted them to and therefore they are racist.”

Didn’t she admit to sexually assaulting her underage sister?

Yeah it seems like the more obvious reading is “significant salary increases...relative to their previous salaries”.

Seems like an incredibly discriminatory statement to me.

You’re not listening to what I’m saying. I’m saying that the 50% of white households who are making < 60K don’t care about the 50% of black households that are making < 35K because they have their own problems to worry about. Get it?

I may have misinterpreted the post I replied to, but yeah, I completely agree with this. There have been bombthrowers on the left that either gave very tepid support to the special election candidates or actively tried to sabotage them for not being pure enough. To me this is a) dumb and b) terrifying.

This gives an interesting example, then. I prefer to see center-left, Obama/Clinton-style Democrats who are basically economically technocratic, support classical liberal democratic norms and values (free speech, individual rights, respect for science), and an approach foreign policy that isn’t war-mongering but is…

Thanks for proving my point about conflating relative wealth between populations with absolute wealth. A median household income of 60K is not high.

> You’re using the language of assholes.

“Someday, we’ll have enough judges on the supreme court to change that letter...”

Maybe. Or maybe most voters don’t want to elect people who are very far left.

TL;DR “I hope he dies”.

No, it’s not stupid at all. The idea that the solution to winning people who voted to give the “hardcore extremist right” all three houses of government is just to move further left and subscribe more fervently to identity politics is what sounds manifestly stupid, IMHO.

GS fans.

Sure, but pull on the thread... what does the job market for prospective major league umpire look like? What is the ethnic distribution of umps in the minors? Plus, umpiring careers last much longer than ballplaying careers and there are far fewer spots. It would make sense that the demographic turnover is slower with…

Cue the talking heads who will declare “surely the pain she’s going through is punishment enough”

Is anybody here, including the author, even remotely aware of what is happening on this campus? This article is disgusting and irresponsible.

Why couldn’t Redford have done this minimal-effort level of reporting? I find that even dumber than the Garcia-Navarro’s dumb suggestion.

Is it possible he was trolling through the entire interview? I mean, it sounds like the kind of answers Erlich Bachmann would give.

Maybe, just maybe, you can be left-of-center and still believe globalization and free trade are good things. I dunno, a nobel prize winning economist with strong liberal credentials thinks free trade is good. Could this be a result of his research and expertise as an economist? Perhaps in this instance the orthodoxy…