The first tweet crucially suggests that it would be weird for Mueller, who is broadly trusted by the targets of Greenwald’s tweet, to just sit by silently as his work is mischaracterized by Barr’s DOJ. It is not a call to trust Barr or the DOJ uncritically. It’s a call for people who have demonstrated strong trust in…

Umm, there’s no dissonance between those two tweets. Not sure what kind of gotcha you think that is, but it ain’t working.

I mean, most people are using Android Auto and Apple Car Play at this point, and they basically just mirror your smartphone onto the display. I’m not seeing the problem here. We are moving in the right direction, away from chintzy third-party built-in apps, and toward a system that’s just an extension of your ordinary…

That said, the bit I bolded there is the reason I really cannot feel too bad for Assange as an individual.

You want parents to stop using their teenagers as daycare employees? Okay! Raise the minimum wage. Universal health care.

They make really good cars. I’m sorry that they stopped offering “enthusiast” trims that people like you weren’t going to buy anyway. I guess they don’t like losing money on shit?

I’m sorry, but it just looks bad, no matter how you slice it, when offering a desirable weapon in an action game needs to be described as an “issue” by the developers. This is really what it’s come to in mainstream gaming now. It’s all about limitations, exclusions, and other sorts of punishments.

The only workers who like tipping culture are those who work in chichi metropolitan joints where, yeah, you can earn hundreds per night in tips. Certainly the voices of these people matter. But nobody expects that, if tipping culture went away, these people would drop down to minimum wage, either. I guarantee you,…

This isn’t and never was a surprise, though. He’s been earning 6-figure salaries in political office for decades now. Sorry, but nobody operating in good-faith can look at that and think, “Yes, this is the kind of wealth Bernie has been talking about his whole career! Fuck that hypocrite!” You’re not moving the needle…

It’s not the fact that Bernie is a millionaire that bothers people. It’s the fact that Bernie consistently positions himself as “different” than other politicians...and he’s fuckin’ not.

When you blame all of societies problems on a class of people that you belong to, it’s fair to get a little ribbing about that inherent hypocricy.

I can sense that you want to have a debate with me about socialism. If so, I’m not really up for it.

The problem is his use of the logic that “we have to protect our poor people before we can help those Other poor people”

In ideal terms, nationalize everything. But I’m pragmatic and realize that you don’t leap into that all at once, or likely even in a single lifetime.

Yeah, these people are insane. I’m as socialist as they come, but that doesn’t equate to being a complete moron about finance. I particularly love the idiots who think GDP is a bank account we get to draw from. Like, we have the money to do a lot more shit than we currently do, particularly if we readjust our prioritie…

Of course, but these assholes are going to pretend that Sanders is particularly “regressive” because he dared to give the correct answer. Most of these other folks in the primary, if given a question about open borders, would find a way to waffle and equivocate about it, because it doesn’t sound woke to effectively…

It’s not regressive. Again, this is something that every other country does (regulate immigration), even the Nordic ones whose health insurance systems we envy. Sanders isn’t saying he’s against immigration. He was accused of being for open borders, which in the GOP scaremongering means having literally zero…

I have no clue. It’s on those of us who give a shit and want to see a more just world to redirect the conversation that way. Just repeating the tired admonishment that you’re a shithead if you don’t tip 20% is, again, not some heroic gesture. You can’t stop people, under the current structure, from being shitty…

Maybe it should be last on the list, but he’s saying it’s not on the list. That’s the problem. Even just brushing it away as something no Democrats are asking for (which is true!) would be a reasonable pragmatic response, but saying it’s something that is actually a bad idea? That’s no good.

The entire notion that allowing immigrants into our country is a financial drain is a racist myth.