Speaking of PTO... fuck that shit! Taking all of my time off and rolling it into a bundle is bullshit. It means that If I get really sick and have to take time off, I don’t get a fucking vacation this year. Or if I have a early am doctors appointment I get charge half a day.

It’s not “probably” true. It is true. And I’d imagine that if we were able to inspect the psychology of the average medieval farmer, few of them would have said, “Boy, I’d totally be better off in a subsistence-level hunting-and-gathering society!”

Actually agriculture was probably the worst honey trap that happened to humankind and just started to pay off recently when looking at a historical time frame. I would rather be a hunter gatherer than a medieval farmer. Better nutrition (not only one staple like wheat), less work (estimated at 35-40h a week), less…

I don’t understand the point of Warren’s initiative? Is it supposed to create some sort of beneficial effect, or is it just designed to poke these big tech companies in the eye for fun? Don’t get me wrong: if there are bona fide monopolies at play, or genuinely dangerous consolidations of corporate power, I’m all…

(besides people who think that the governmental process is inextricably corrupted and failed until CU is gone)

Bernie’s immediate chuckle tells us everything we need to know about the guy. I can guarantee that basically every other 2020 primary candidate would have either ignored it outright, or fumbled briefly over the most politic way to address it. This is why people like Bernie. He’s a real person.

Does anyone else get the strange feeling that Hollywood studios are pretty much relying on this sort of anti-marketing with female-helmed comic book action movies now? It’s a bit convenient how, since Ghostbusters, going out to watch these movies has turned into sort of an obligatory response to “the trolls,” or…

Except completely lose the narrative because of how poorly she framed her remarks. Would you call that wrong? Because I would.

How about people fucking show up to vote...

Oh God, this is such defeatist bullshit. We will never win back much of anything at all if our message is, “Welp, can’t do anything until we pack the Supreme Court!” Come the fuck on.

But that alone isn’t going to cut it. And certainly, if that’s your top legislative priority, it ain’t going to draw people out. (Also, I hate it when people talk about “repealing” Citizens United, given that it was a legal decision, not a piece of legislation.)

Yeah I mean, is it worthy of note that Bernie voted for it? Sure. But all anyone has to do is watch that video to see that he was adamantly, vocally opposed to the “tough on crime” aspects of the legislation. If anything, it just highlights the cynicism and general shittiness of how the Democratic establishment can…

Umm, but in the meantime, it means expending effort and resources on those systemic initiatives (such as court packing). Like, we can do more than one thing at the same time, but we can’t do infinite things at the same time. And these ideas are big ones which would demand a lot of bandwidth. I’d rather spend the time…

Or, you know, we could appeal to existing voters, not to mention the vast untapped swathes of people who don’t feel included in politics and have refrained from voting, by issuing policy goals that they find attractive. I know it’s gauche to suggest that politics is about policy, but hey, it’s just an idea.

Yeah, I think the core problem is that establishmentc Dem types are so utterly divorced from actual values that all they can do is hope for things like process-gaming or idealized demographic shifts to seal their influence. The last thing they can imagine moving the needle is advocacy for popular policy initiatives.

Yeah, it’s a perpetual escalation thing, and it’s ultimately based on the flawed ideal of maintaining power long enough / at the right times for everything to work out perfectly in one’s own favor. These are the same idiots who think that maybe California should be broken up into 4+ states, so they can each have 2…

I felt very passionate that it was unjust that Congress was voting for me and my peers to be sent to war without our ability to weigh in at the ballot box on the issue.

Either Omar is an anti-Semite and needs to apologize for what she said, or she isn’t an anti-Semite, people who are motivated to misread her comments are doing so in order to discredit her arguments, and she doesn’t need to apologize for what she said. I’m so completely sick and tired of this attitude where people…

“I don’t think that the congresswoman perhaps appreciates the full weight of how it was heard by other people, although I don’t believe it was intended in any anti-Semitic way.”

Biden was around 33 when he said this.