I’m not a “ban all guns” person, and I’m even iffy on whether it’s practical or productive to try to remove the ones currently in circulation, even the assault weapons (although we really need a way to effectively regulate access to those going forward, the way we did with automatic weapons and shortened rifles and…

That’s not even a “No,” so much as a “Who the hell invented this, and why aren’t they in an iron mask under a prison somewhere?”

It’s obvious that we’re being punished at this point for our transgressions.

Of the 34 Senate seats up for re-election in 2020, 22 are currently Republican, 12 are held by Democrats. I’m not sure about the specific states (pure laziness on my part), but a net gain of 3 or 4 (I forget which) Democratic senators removes Mitch from control of the Senate agenda.

May they rot.

As much as it pains me to give a wannabe white supremacist terrorist the time of day, the notion that you can’t shank the person next to you in their sleep for personal without worrying that you’re going to be shanked in your sleep or suffer other consequence is not a localized or modern concept, given that it’s…

I’m sure you’ll find a lifetime’s worth of it. With any luck, it won’t get on anyone else.

So you’re saying you’re a bad person. Which I think we all got when you came out with a white genocide narrative, but the complete disregard of others and the treatment of that as a positive thing really nails it down.

I’m not sure “science fiction author with tumor-driven personality changes” really explains things as well as you think it does. Also, you’re advising that the only effective method of change is the application of violence, which ought to scare the shit out of you, but which is also not true.

“Social influence and power” is a weird way of saying “violently enforced racial dominance.” I have a weird feeling your timeline for that “erosion” starts about 1950.

I’ve only visited Baltimore a couple times, but if there’s an area of town that probably shouldn’t be a priority for development resources at this point, it’s the Inner Harbor? Like, of all the places to apply resources “intended” to help people get housing and improve quality of life throughout the city, a district…

You’ve given my flip couple of sentences a more serious and thoughtful response than they really deserved. The response you pointed me to happened to pop up right over the one to me, and there’s nothing in there but truth. Thank you.

Imagine a world where the next time someone goes “You can’t prove he’s racist,” you can go to the tape, though.

Same same. This is the guy who ran the Willie Brown ad, right? Invented the term “welfare queen?”

Right.

I feel like avoiding being called a racist is about as hard as avoiding skydiving accidents. You have to take multiple, active steps (deciding to chime in with a racist (or thoughtless) statement, trying to keep black and brown people from voting, etc.) to find yourself in an at-risk situation, and even then, you…

What’s actually odd is how committed you are to the exact arguments put forth by the kind of people who instituted Jim Crow laws, and in defiance of the contemporaneous statements of Confederate leaders. An accurate description, in a short sentence, would be “The Southern states seceded because they believed that the…

That entire first paragraph is objectively wrong, and I’m not sure why you’re pushing revisionist Dixiecrat horseshit.

Gosh, and here I thought they were arguing that states had all this authority in the electoral process, and control over how their ballots.

Good for him. This needs to be said, and I’m sorry there was no one there with the moral courage to stand and join him.