How exactly does a solution like rent control address the problem that the cities with the worst rents are almost impossible for anyone to build affordable housing in? Rent control does little good when the cost of rent is already sky high. Look at San Francisco. NIMBYs don’t want high rise apartment blocks spoiling…

That that’s your takeaway says far more about you than me. I’m in favor of massive cuts across the board with regard to all government spending. The amount of government we have is grossly disproportionate to the amount we actually need in our lives. I’m by no means in favor of the status quo, but I’ll be damned if…

I agree! So get them to cut defense spending. Me and the crickets are going to make popcorn while we wait on you to report your success.

Great! Get them to cut all that war spending, and we’ll have a great place to start from. I’ll just be over here waiting, with the crickets.

For what it’s worth, commenters like the one you replied to aren’t usually worth interacting with. I’ve pretty much given up expecting anything other than anger or vitriol out of them. If all they can do is be angry on the internet, I shudder to think what they’re like as a real person. Most of the time I don’t even…

If you were paying any attention, you’d know that I’m firmly against the wall and the never ending wars. But cute attempt to pigeon hole me into your predefined conceptions.

So all the money businesses generate also doesn’t disappear into a void, right? That means Amazon is the greatest economic stimulus the world has ever seen. Like, you think these contracts are only going to go to the people “working” (I’m highly skeptical of how much actual work will ever get done)? No, executives and…

You’re right, by the time you get through all the legal challenges, contract negotiations, and who knows how many other ways money will be pissed away before anything beneficial actually happens, I expect that we’ll be 10 years down the road and trillions more over what they’re projecting here, with little if anything…

Umm... 58% of our entire economic output isn’t a problem? Ok chief...

If they make the Destroy ending with a high enough readiness score canon, you do survive. I’d be ok with them reconning the Geth being destroyed if they want, but there’s still plenty of galaxy to explore, not everything they face has to be an extinction-level event.

Ok... but there’s this thing called Skype now. So that you don’t actually have to go to a rapidly destabilizing situation and interview a desperate dictator face to face in a place where you’re completely at his mercy. There’s a fine line between being brave and being stupid. This was stupid, and if he’s smart he…

I’m glad Mr. Ramos is alright, but whose bright idea was it to send him to do an in person interview with a dictator whose hold on power is rapidly crumbling? He’s very lucky Maduro didn’t decide to make him a “guest” of the Venezuelan government in an attempt to surround himself with human shields.

The good guy with a gun stopped the bad guy with a gun. He fled and had to go to the hospital with gunshot wounds, where he was captured. If the good guy had no gun, that news crew would probably be dead. Frankly they’re incredibly lucky they had an armed guard who jumped through all the insane hoops California has to…

He kept the people he was guarding from getting shot and was able to wound at least one of the perpetrators badly enough that they had to go to the hospital and were caught. How’s that a failure? What do you think would have happened if he’d been there with only a whistle and strong language, or not there at all? I…

Yeah, I mean it would only be about half of our GDP, but sure, let’s go for it!

Well since virtually the only people that own guns in Chicago are criminals and cops (but I repeat myself), yes, they do.

The good guy with a gun did stop the bad guy with a gun. He fled and had to go to the hospital with gunshot wounds, where he was captured. If the good guy had no gun, that news crew would probably be dead. Frankly they’re incredibly lucky they had an armed guard who jumped through all the insane hoops California has…

Which means he should be voting to declare war rather than egging on Trump to sic the military on Venezuela. Unfortunately the legislature can’t abdicate their responsibilities fast enough.

Should Maduro leave power? Yes.

There’s a bajillion people running for the Democratic nomination and we haven’t even had a single debate or primary yet. We can afford to be picky right now.