If a key vote supported by Biden doesn’t have Manchin’s blessing, it will not even be voted, so that perfect track record is just a self selecting sample. Those key votes, btw, were not passed as Biden’s administration wanted them, but after being whittled down by Manchin.

That was 50 years ago. American society has changed a lot in that time. Back then people were horrified by what their soldiers did. Now members of the army who commit war crimes are pardoned and everyone is alright with it.

I’m not trying to mix those two issues, but I am highlighting the willingness to undervalue the lives of their own children when it’s politically expedient. You say they’d be more agitated against war if the lives of their own children were on the line, but I don't see evidence of that being true.

Historically wealthy people have always managed to dodge draft. After all, draft rules are made by politicians in their payroll.

Except that you’re talking about a country that loves guns more than it loves children. If draft became the norm, the increase in manpower would make war the default solution to international conflicts, as it was in the past.

I think there’s a difference between hurting an animal in self defense, and turning the act of hurting an animal into a show for clicks.

The president can buy him. The president can get some oppo-research. And there are many other ways.

It’s not about solidarity, but about making a social policy measure turn into more votes.

On January 6th, Trump was on the verge of “convincing” the whole congress that he was the one who won the election. He only failed because white supremacists thankfully are cowards who scatter at the first shot of enemy fire. And you see that his method wasn’t even illegal, as nobody has been sentenced for it, and…

You know, since Trump showed us his style of having and using power, whenever I try to figure out what is politically possible or politically expedient, I immediately think: what would Trump do if he really really wanted to pass something and one or two senators were in his way?

Here in California, generally speaking, Hispanics couldn’t care less about somebody saying something nuanced about Castro.

If any organization tries to do anything more than marching and begging for peace, then the machinery of the state will work at full power to dissolve them. See what happened to the Black Panthers.

It’s also worth noting that the regions of the world that saw technological massacres under secular regimes had already seen massacres with worse death tolls with lower tech under states that endorsed religion.

Let’s say that a tradition sets in where there is an heir apparent chosen by the monarch, who is groomed and trained for leadership. Let’s also say that the power of the king is not absolute, but the king is more of an arbiter between factions than an autocrat. Perhaps the only real powers of the king of Wakanda are…

Everybody born and raised in the US is anti-black racist. It’s the culture and nobody can substract themselves from it. The difference lays on how aware they are of it, and how much they decide to push against it, or in favor of it. The difference also is in how much money and influence they have: most people have…

The attitude of many black cops towards non white people shows differently.

Is it, though? Assholes have an easier time not seeing their employees as people but as tools to be exploited for maximum productivity and unceremoniously replaced if they burn out. Seeing your employees as people and not cogs in the machine will not let you maximize profit, and in a capitalist system your company…

Is it, though? Assholes have an easier time not seeing their employees as people but as tools to be exploited for maximum productivity and unceremoniously replaced is they burn out. Seeing your employees as people and not cogs in the machine will not let you maximize profit, and in a capitalist system your company…

What if we can’t? Our brains are complex, and it may be impossible to predict a decision beforehand, but the physical and biological rules that they obey are pretty deterministic.

The point of a GOP-chosen SCOTUS is not to “win the culture war”, although they have to deliver a victory every now and then. The point is to sustain the economic status quo, to keep the pro-corporation bias of the law.