And you do realize that cities don’t produce their own food, yes? So maybe, rather than just writing off everyone who lives in rural areas, the people that literally feed you, as backward conservative assholes, you might consider that you’d literally starve to death without them. You might not ever agree with them,…

Yes, I see. They all lost to people more conservative to them (i.e.- got less votes) because they weren’t liberal enough. Surely if they were just more progressive, all those secret rural progressives hiding in the woodwork would’ve shown up to vote for them. It couldn’t possibly be that all these secret progressives…

Do you like to eat food?

Because we have a first past the post election system. We could easily remedy the two party problem by having ranked choice voting, but it would take either the cooperation of the two parties or major ballot initiatives to do it.

But if they’re identical... how do they know for sure?

Normally I would just tell Hillary to go away, but on this, she’s right. Democrats just don’t have anything close to enough to be worth going through impeachment. The Mueller Report may not outright exonerate Trump, but it’s a damn sight short of anything substantive enough to string him up. The most damning thing you…

Her policies were what they were, and in a vacuum weren’t necessarily that bad. But the fact that her campaign treated Trump like a joke candidate didn’t do her any favors. When your response to your opponent is essentially a wanking gesture, that’s probably not great and it came back to bite her. I do agree with you…

2016 seems to have told us that it’s not.

Denying prisoners basic toiletries would likely fall under cruel and unusual punishment, so again, not the same. There’s nothing cruel or unusual about saying “You’re in prison for the next X amount of years, you’re not a participant in society because of your actions, therefore you don’t get to have a say in what…

Well, when something is defined as a crime, we lay out what punishments we as a society accept for said crime. If your crime is serious enough to deprive you of your freedom, it is logical that it can deprive you of certain rights or privileges you had while you were free. Prisoners don’t have the right to assemble…

I mean, probably the fact that it’s a term that is now pretty much only used as a cudgel against well meaning liberals by those on the right.

It’s pretty simple really. They want to pass “universal background checks” first because it sounds nice, THEN they’re hoping that when it obviously doesn’t work, people will accept universal gun registration. Sounds like that didn’t pan out for them in Nevada.

Your analogy is a little weak because, murdering someone is a crime, while snapping at your wife is not. A bit apples and oranges there I think.

I’m perfectly fine with people being allowed to vote once they have completed their sentence. In a perfect world, that means your debt to society has been paid and you are free to rejoin it without further prejudice (yes, I am aware that this is not how it actually works in the real world). But imprisonment is, at its…

It’s not that I don’t believe you, but this flag is so shitty if you had told me instead that you made it up to troll white supremacists, I would have 100% believed that without further questioning it. Like c’mon, there isn’t one graphic designer among these guys?

Nick Di Paolo?

I concede no such thing. You’re shifting what we now call the Overton window same as they did in the French Revolution. Today’s leftist is tomorrow’s conservative because they aren’t willing to go as far left as you. Their position didn’t change, someone more radical came along. That the leftist groups in the US are…

I mean, one man’s socialist is another man’s radical. Either way, if you can find evidence of the term being used in the pejorative sense prior to the formation of the Jacobin Society outside of perhaps someone speaking negatively of the Jacobin monks from which the term originates specifically and not just as a…

The term apparently does pre-date the Jacobin Society formed in 1789, but has a substantially different meaning:

McConnell is going to have to hope that people don’t figure out what “socialism” actually means if he’s going to keep using it as a cudgel against the left.