I thought the exact same thing before the election happened. But everything that’s happened since, it’s pretty clear that her presidency would have been a complete mess. It’s hard to be a great president when the people you trust to organize your administration are as petty, incompetent, and shady as Robby Mook and…

The strings that are attached to social safety nets tend to follow arbitrary moral standards and are based in racial and classist stereotypes (drug tests for unemployment insurance, bans on using food stamps for “luxury goods” like soda or lobster), so I would argue that those restrictions shouldn’t exist either.…

You don’t realize that these things (reform and winning) are related? In order for Democrats to win, we have to turn out the people who sat at home in 2016, i.e. the working class, especially communities of color. Why did they sit at home? It’s simple: the perceived benefits of voting were not high enough to overcome…

Spurs fans would definitely be the lesser evil to the massive smugness of Arsenal or Liverpool fans if those teams won the league, or the bored and indifferent shrugging of Chelsea/Man City/Man U fans if they took home yet more silver. Unless another Leicester happens, the end of the season’s going to suck for…

Kane scored more goals than Agüero in 2015-16, 2016-17, and for the first two months of this year, and they have comparable assists. Man U’s defense couldn’t even stop Huddersfield.

What’s with this myth that the only two options are supporting the DNC’s corruption and supporting third-party candidate? Everyone on the Left just wants the Democrats to be better. We hoped that the Bernie campaign’s success in grassroots fundraising, combined with the fact that the corporate wing has lost us the…

Seriously, how did that troll even ungrayed? Apparently they’re allowed to spam comments while commenters with actual contributions to the discussion will never be seen? Kinja, get your shit together.

On a totally unrelated note, a member of the DNC’s Unity Reform Commission, who definitely has our best interests in mind and isn’t being promised a cushy job at some corporate think tank by her lobbyist friends, gave this interview saying that we need super-delegates because voters are just too stupid to know what’s…

I’m Asian? But good try though

No, you don’t get it. We don’t have to vote for the White dudes; we’re just supposed to vote for PoC candidate that was handpicked for us by the White dudes (and women), because they know better than us. Just listen to this member of the DNC “Unity Reform Commission” condescendingly explain it to us:

Because there’s nothing more inspiring to voters than snarkily shouting “YOU HAVE NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE OTHER THAN LITERAL FASCISM” on an article about deepening political corruption in the Democratic Party. Way to miss the entire fucking point.

Group D (Chelsea, Atlético Madrid, Roma, and Qarabag) is a tough draw, but the real Group of Death has to be Group H (Real Madrid, Dortmund, Tottenham Hotspur, APOEL Nicosia). Atlético and Roma certainly aren’t what they were 3-4 years ago, and even APOEL is leagues better than Qarabag.

We have the exact same thing in the US. Just replace “talent” with “familial wealth, connections, and good luck,” “cafeterias” with “everything,” and “Olympic Training Center” with “everywhere”.

That wasn’t the real Brock Osweiler experiment. The real experiment is the cap space-for-picks strategy to the Osweiler trade. It never mattered to the Browns front office if Osweiler ever actually made the roster. All that mattered was the 2nd round draft pick that they got for only $16 million in cap space. If it…

I definitely agree! It’s unlikely that SB 562 would have ever garnered the attention it did without the tireless work of Californian activists and organizations like Our Revolution and the DSA. California is paving the way for the rest of the country, and it’s up to the rest of us to continue to build on their…

To everyone who reflexively complained about Harris’s critics over the past few months: This is why leftist criticism is not only good, but necessary. The more you defend your centrist idols, the longer it will take them to adopt common-sense and wildly popular progressive positions like single-payer. I applaud…

The Asian community in the US has always been somewhat divided ideologically. For the better part of the 20th century, the Model Minority ideology, which promotes the adoption of whiteness in an effort to reduce discrimination against Asians, was absolutely dominant. A big part of this reason is that Asians at the…

There are many, many different commentaries online, including on the other Gizmodo sites, that have explained this far more in-depth than I ever could. That being said, here’s a sort-of primer on the issues with whitewashing.

Remember when Democrats sent these people buckets full of money to help them rebuild their burned-down (and 100% insured) office? Good to know we have the moral high ground as they use that money to pull shit like this.

“She would have been a extremely competent administrator and would have ensured that the executive branch was fully staffed.”