And if you want to sell people on the benefits of such systems, perhaps it’s best not to conflate them with the idea of socialism that has taken root in the rest of the world, yes?

See any other socialist country from the 20th century onward. Socialism practically requires tyranny to be fully implemented.

Her complete and utter lack of experience or qualifications is seen as a feature, not a bug.

Nobody has “earned the right to run”. That’s the kind of bullshit that led to Hillary running for president twice because it was “her turn”. If he wants to run so be it, but he’s no more entitled to it than anyone else.

One is plugged into my wall, the other is two tons of metal hurtling down the highway at 70 miles per hour. It’s no different than one toaster being faulty versus Ford Pintos exploding if they get bumped from behind a little too hard. 

And how do you determine if software was negligent? I think that’s the point that is being missed.

If you need an exciting candidate to get you to go vote for president in 2020, when your other serious option is Trump getting reelected, don’t fucking vote. Seriously. You could have the most milquetoast Martin O’Malley motherfucker get nominated, if you need to be excited about it to vote for literally anyone that’s…

Ok, great. How many of them are people Trump is gonna pick?

Trump’s order to send troops to the border is entirely a political ploy and really incredibly stupid and xenophobic, but it’s a lawful order. Now maybe you think if Mattis disagrees with that order he should resign, and maybe he should, but I ask, who the fuck are we going to get in that job who is going to do a…

Insurance companies don’t get charged with vehicular manslaughter though. That’s the issue that has yet to be answered: When someone is killed by an autonomous vehicle, who can be held criminally liable? The company that owns said vehicle? The company that produced it? The software engineer that wrote the code?

David, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by some of your previous projects, but c’mon. That frame is beyond fucked. There’s no way you’re going to be able to patch it back together. Take the L on this one and just go get a different frame. I know in Michigan we don’t have vehicle inspections but I don’t see any way…

Hopefully this means someone finally forced Kanye back on his meds.

A white man has two fewer avenues of attack for Trump to take advantage of when it comes to his base. If a great black candidate comes up between now and 2020, awesome, I hope they run. But at this point, if there’s any hope of keeping Republicans at home or getting some of the non-insane conservatives to change their…

As a Michigan voter, had Gary Johnson not been on the ballot, I would have just not voted for president. At least my vote helped guarantee Libertarian candidates ballot access in my state. It’s not much of a victory, but I’ll take what little I can get at this point.

Counterpoint: If you’re old enough to vote and you don’t know how a FUCKING POST OFFICE works, don’t vote. You are literally too dumb and self-absorbed to be exercising that right responsibly.

Venezuelans are literally starving right now. An invasion by Brazil that overthrows Maduro might actually end up being a net positive for them in the long run.

And yet soooooo many people want to give more power and responsibility to the state every chance they get.

In an alternate universe, Smith is the top journalist at Fox News, making the network a shining beacon of truth in reporting.

This is the unfortunate backlash to the actual socialism that has been tried in South America and has failed everyone who isn’t among the elites so spectacularly. When socialist policies result in crushing poverty and rampant corruption, the eventual response to that will almost always be populism, nationalism, and…

Emphasis on the “relative”. When we’ve been blowing brown people up in their countries for almost 20 years continuously, that’s not exactly peaceful. We just don’t have it at home. If we did I suspect attitudes would be different.