Uhh... The person who said it is black...

I don’t agree with that either, but at the very least you can argue that they are doing what they were elected to do. I highly doubt any people that voted in Venezuela’s last election, such that anyone was able to cast a vote that mattered, voted to have Maduro and his goons starve them to death, shoot them for trying…

The US can be supportive of a nascent revolutionary movement without sending in the Marine Corps or Erik Prince’s Blackwater or whatever the fuck they’re called now. I’ve said several times now that IF the US gets involved AT ALL, it should be through offering SUPPLIES and LOGISTICAL SUPPORT to the VENEZUELAN PEOPLE…

You must’ve glossed over the part where I said require in that sentence. Pretty important word there. None of those countries defaulted into dictatorship because of their economic system. All communist regimes default to totalitarianism. They cannot exist without controlling their people at the barrel of a gun. The…

Please. Communism/Socialism requires dictatorships to force it upon their people. Literally no Capitalist societies require a dictatorship. Name one successful Communist country that doesn’t have single party rule. Nobody keeps Communism because they like it. World poverty has been halved from 2000-2012 and Communism…

Please, point to where I said it should be a victory for the US? Or where we should invade? I’m curious to see how you gleaned that from my comment, because it’s just not there. If the US does anything, it should be providing equipment, supplies, and logistical support to either the Venezuelan people themselves…

I mean if you want to follow any conspiracy theory, thinking that Trump being president is an excuse for shadowy forces of some conservative power cabal to exercise their deepest fantasies while having it all obfuscated by a mouthpiece with the intellectual capacity of a sunfish is probably more plausible than him…

Point out where I said we should do that.

If they were self-determining that they wanted to die by starvation thanks to Maduro, you might have a point. But given that that’s asinine and the Venezuelan people have no means by which to resist Maduro so long as he maintains control of a majority of the military, you don’t have a point. The attempt at…

I’m no fan of Trump, but when someone is so desperate to deny him a win on anything that you’d rather people literally die of starvation, I’m not sure that makes them any better than what they think Trump is.

Why, it’s almost as if most of the country is somewhere in the middle, and doesn’t actually like the extreme right OR left.

No, it’s actually the correct take. The problem isn’t giving people we have decided must be separated from society a voice in said society before they have paid their debt, the problem is why the fuck are we locking so many people up in the first place, particularly over nonviolent and often victimless crimes? Fix that…

I know you guys love your socialist dictators and all, but I promise, you won’t die if you say that supporting Guaido is actually the right call regardless of the administration we currently have. We can certainly argue about what level of support the US should provide (probably materiel and logistical support only),…

I doubt many if any of the commenters here remember 1991. I’d wager a large amount hadn’t even been born. Hell, I was 5 years old so I certainly don’t remember any of this first hand. They’re going off almost 30 years of historical narrative, a narrative which has decided to paint Hill as a hero and Biden a villain.

How many different ways does this same article need to be re-written? We get it, Anita Hill got treated shitty in the early 90's by Biden because she decided to tell people that Thomas probably said some gross stuff to her, back in the early 80's. Are we supposed to think that Biden in 2019 is the exact same person as…

Man, and I thought the mentally ill people on the left were bad enough, now we’ve got right wing MAGA chuds threatening to eat people? Is it finally time to bring back the asylums yet?

It is a challenge. It’s one of several reasons why trying to do too much from a centrally managed Federal government is probably bad, and will only get worse the more people we have.

By definition, if you’ve been convicted of a crime and sentenced to prison, you have been separated from society, so no, you aren’t living in it. In fact you have been adjudicated as being such a danger to society that you don’t get to participate freely in it for a defined period of time. Now, whether our justice…

First past the post is, as far as I’m aware, the most common type of electoral process in a non-parliamentary system such as ours. It’s not the only way to do it, or the best in my opinion, but it’s also probably the easiest way to administer an election. In a first past the post system, the only thing that matters is…

Serious question: Who does this matter to?