There is no difference between acting like a racist and being racist. We can never know how other people feel, we can only judge them on their actions. Using the N-word casually (which PDP knows full well is a horrendous slur, don’t give me that BS) is a racist act. Your man has committed several racist acts. It’s…

Where was anyone suggesting the use of “retard” was okay? It’s not, but it’s considered less hateful than the N-word, which has been nothing but a term of hatred for centuries. There is a difference between racial slurs and other insults, is that not clear to you?

I play a lot of video games, but I would never consider myself a gamer for this very reason. YouTube and the wider online ecosystem (Reddit etc.) have such a huge problem with casual racism and sexism because young, stupid people think it’s transgressive when it’s simply regressive. I genuinely worry about people who…

You are connecting things that aren’t connected. It is possible to view situations in multiple different ways, and to be concerned about both systemic impoverishment in America and really important online personalities being casual racists. This is not a zero-sum thing

It doesn’t matter how he feels, it’s how he acts. Using the N-word casually is a racist act. Don’t act like a racist and you will not be treated like one.

Are you 17 or do you just have the philosophical positions of a particularly delayed 17-year-old? That’s the weakest defence for disgusting moral positions i’ve ever seen.

I was being real condescending about insurance but then you suggested that other people paying premiums meant you weren’t paying for their care. YOU ARE PAYING FOR THEIR CARE AS PART OF A RISK POOL, THAT IS WHAT INSURANCE IS! and that is why it obviously makes sense to have everyone pay!

> Any I’m confident that there is no agency or authority that accredits or verifies whether anyone is an expert on health care policy.

You live in a country where people die because they’re poor and you have no problem with this. It would be great if you got cancer.

> Why on Earth would I want to pay for someone else?
Because you aren’t ignorant of the idea of insurance? Because you understand risk pools? Because you know the first thing about medicine or healthcare? The point is that we will all get sick, many of us in different ways at different times, and it makes sense to pay…

Yeah, I was impressed he kept his shit together. Is that not clear?

Like the systems seem incredibly obvious: have a fame ranking that increases based on on- and off-court incidents, as well as an infamy rating. You also have a coach & team happiness system, maybe individual ones for players. You can talk to the media and be charismatic for extra fame points, but you can get too much…

Why don’t they just take the next step and make it a full-fledged football RPG? I hated the fact that most of my decisions and dialogue were mapped out for me in NBA 2K. Make it Madden: Alpha Protocol.

You know that thing I said about locksmiths earlier

Oh, I thought she owned a minority as part of a consortium. Wasn’t aware she had control. Now, as for the rest of my exceedingly correct post, I’m sure you’ll be along swiftly to explain why journalists are totally 100% okay with taking dictation from their ownership and there’s no division between editorial and…

Yes. But how many of them understand that we’re all in this together, and that one of the mechanisms of government should be to balance outcomes in order to help everyone succeed?

Some locksmiths are serial killers, too. But assuming every single one is a serial killer because you don’t know how locksmithing works is, as I said, dumb and cynical.

Honestly, this is actually the issue. Americans just genuinely don’t have that same assumption about collective good. They don’t want to pay for the care of somebody else if they don’t have to, even if it makes everything better for everyone (including themselves). These kinds of cultural ideas are important to…

“The U.K. spends less per person ($3,749) on health care than the U.S. ($9,237). Despite its high spending, the U.S. does not have the best health outcomes. Life expectancy, for example, is 79.1 years in the U.S. and 80.9 years in the U.K. And while the U.S. spends more on health care than any country in the world, it…

Journalists aren’t corrupt, and it’s cynical and stupid to suggest that they are. This is an obvious pitch: what if single payer is not all it’s cracked up to be? Every magazine would run this.