Hillary has the sense not to run again.

It’s not my position to tell people how to feel, or that their hurt is invalid.

I’m mad at people for ceding common sense and critical thinking to massive corporations.

Exactly. If they’re using bots, then that’s a bona fide issue. Assuming that they must be using bots just because one doesn’t like their message is silly.

You could argue the same damned thing about literally any work of fiction.

No, I’m suggesting that you not buy the book, because you’re smart enough to know it’s BS without cracking it open in the first place. Who is being bamboozled here? Nobody.

Yes, we live in the real world, where exactly no one first learns about the existence of QAnon on Amazon. You realize the rest of the internet exists right? Who is being protected by suppressing a fucking QAnon book on Amazon? Again, if anything, doing that would just add fuel to the grand conspiracy theory.

Nobody is learning about QAnon through Amazon. Seriously, this is like arguing that we might stop people from learning about pornography if we shut down all the Hustler stores. You know the rest of the internet exists, right? There is exactly zero evidence whatsoever that banning or burying this book on Amazon would…

The point is the more granular issue of algorithm exploitation, bots, and legit “fake” stuff like Russian burner account cube-farms manipulating social media.

In a perfect world, I’d 100% agree with you. But there’s a reason lower-educated people are more likely to believe this stuff. To reasonable folks, it’s comically unbelievable. But there’s a depressingly large share of people who are either unwilling or unable to accept reality, and they just believe anything their…

“But the fact we’re left only with the publisher’s own description of the book and a clearly gamed set of 5-star reviews—how is the average shopper supposed to know this is toxic garbage?”

The person who wrote this article clearly hasn’t watched, and isn’t interested in watching, the show they’re slagging off.

The worst thing about this whole reparations fiasco is how Sanders is the only one catching shit, but (a) Harris doesn’t even have a concrete idea of what “reparations” means in terms of policy, (b) Warren thinks it means helping people make down payments on houses, and (c) Booker thinks it means “baby bonds.”

No, his position doesn’t suck. Believing that durable, universal social programs stand a better chance of helping black people (and everyone else, too) is more than defensible. What isn’t defensible is doing what Kamala Harris has done, and talking about “support” for reparations, but offering exactly zero idea of…

Because Pelosi smacked Omar down very publicly for her tweets, and is the leader of the party in the House. She was the most high profile person to sell Omar down the river on this.

She could have—and probably should have—mentioned AIPAC from the first, rather than leaving it for a response tweet—but I don’t believe she ever intended to sound off as if Jews were responsible for all the world’s ills, or anything like it.

The impression that I get is that he hasn’t and they don’t.

The problem isn’t realizing the fight ahead of you...you’re not going to convince a Republican majority senate to vote for medicare-for-all. It’s never going to happen. Mitch McConnell is a fucking loser, but he knows how to play this game.

Don’t even try with these people. They don’t have an alternative. Their hatred of Sanders is 100% about letting Clinton off the hook for losing in 2016. It had to be somebody’s fault, anybody’s fault other than hers. They will grit their teeth and vote for Sanders in the general, but until then, they will deploy every…

“Toothless buzzwords like ‘reparations’” is definitely the whitest thing I’ve seen written here in a while.