You’d think liberals would be a little less kneejerk when it comes to unthinking “patriotism” and uncritical fellation of military narratives, wouldn’t you? Oh wait, no, you wouldn’t, because they aren’t, and any elements within the Democratic party that are get systematically minimized, mocked, and then browbeaten…

For Christ’s sake, it’s been long enough to be done with this bullshit. She did NOT “willfully endanger lives.” She revealed crimes. Any retaliation for those crimes is on the people who committed them and those who covered them up. She’s a whistleblower. Not a traitor. We should be pinning medals on her.

Precious had one of the top consultants (Lisa Taback) running its Oscar campaign, Oprah as a producer and distributor Lionsgate backing its play. It’s not like there was no money to pay for plane tickets. It’s just become customary to expect performers to provide all this uncompensated labor. “Do it for the exposure”…

She didn’t refuse to do press. She refused to pay for her own flights and give up her income from her show to do press and campaign for an Oscar. Daniels could have paid for her flights, put her up, supplemented her income to “campaign” for something that was supposedly an honor, but he didn’t. He didn’t give Gabby…

I don’t imagine engaging in a debate with you about why you’re wrong would be remotely fruitful, so I’ll just note instead that,

Please don’t buy into the romanticization of the Romanovs. They were a brutal murdering crime family of half wits, who did nothing for their population.

Fuck New York state!

I don’t know, I feel like we keep saying that about various Republicans and it keeps not being true.

Because for the most part employment is caused by demand for an employers services. Paying people more means they have more to spend, which in turn causes more demand for employers services. Essentially what you’re doing is causing money to flow faster, instead of stagnating in hordes, which is really only good for…

“The Nazis gained sympathy from the non-communists and built their political power because the Communists were engaging in political violence first.”

No. I paid the money to be guaranteed those seats. I’m aware that people get upgraded for free if they go unsold. If you want to gamble, then don’t pay it. If you are unwilling to take the risk, then pay it. It’s super petty to be worried about somebody sitting in Economy Plus when they only paid for Economy.

Not really, I’m paying for a guaranty of a better seat, I still get what I paid for, somebody else gets a little bonus. Paying an extra $150 on the hopes that maybe you’ll get an empty middle seat is stupid, you’re paying for the extra forward leg room, as long as this new row-mate doesn’t have abnormally wide feet…

Also

“when a bigger Nazi comes along afterwards and punches you in the face, you can’t complain about it”

While I’m not sure if today’s antifa in Berkeley are college kids or what, there DID used to be a bunch of skinheads and affiliated Nazis that would show up at punk shows in the ‘90s, and generally speaking only went away because they got punched too often. So I suspect for some of these kids, it’s a little more…

It has been time to bring back the CCC for the last 20 years. Our infastructure is shit, our national parks and monuments are woefully understaffed, internet and cellular phone connectivity in rural areas is fucking terrible, and there’s basically no jobs out there that can help high school graduates not going to…

In another life, I worked in transportation. It will take years upon years to get this up in running on just the long-haul side of trucking and less-than-load has last mile problems out the ass.