Chill out Whodatcajun, it’s standard rhetorical procedure

I’m not so sure about Biden. It’s actually uncommon for the early frontrunner to end up with the nomination (happens only about 2/5s of the time), and Biden is actually poised to do very poorly in all the early states except South Carolina, which could do irreparable damage to his campaign.

Buttigieg is surging and…

Moderates always win:
Trump beat Clinton
Obama beat McCain
Bush beat Gore
etc. etc.
This is my presentation on why the more moderate candidate always wins.

People get past the fire wall all the time. The absence of Lebron in China would be a big fucking deal.
This is a country where, in the 90s, Michael Jordan was named the 2nd most popular person in the history of the world, only after Communist hero, Zhou Enlai.
Maybe China doesn’t change its behavior, but a crackdown on…

I want to take issue with two points here:
1) The idea that Lebron can have no influence. Lebron is the face of the NBA and if he (and Steph, say) are going around saying they support human rights, then China has to block the league. This will irritate many, many NBA fans in China who care more about the NBA than they…

I disagree:
This will be his ‘republicans buy sneakers too’ line and it will undermine his image as a champion of progressive causes permanently.

In boxing, people prefer a winner by knock-out to a winner by decision.

At this point in the 2008 primary, Clinton was at 48% to Obama’s 22%, so I think that Warren has plenty of time to put distance between herself and that man.
Biden has run many times and usually fizzles out by December at the latest. Nobody actually likes him too much!

It’s a collective action problem. But so is any boycott. The only way to see if they care is to politicize the issue, make it ‘a thing’ and see what happens.

Let them be a gamemaker for Chinese markets then. They can have no business here.

Is it really fair to call China a socialist state?

The Mummy, Rock of Ages, Knight and Day, American Made
Flops! Some of them barely held up by worldwide box office performance.
All quite bad, too!

But he’s good in other things. Including Edge of Tomorrow!

Some streamers aren’t ‘influencers’ in the typical sense. It works more like a chat room where a game you like is happening in the background.
And if you don’t have time to play a lot of games. Catching 15 minutes here and there can be nice.
It can be like a slightly more grown up and more transactional version of going…

If you’re suggesting that Alcibiades desecrated the herms, that’s a slanderous lie!
It’s people like you that sent him packing to Sparta!

Evil cop shit

Perhaps we’ll have to agree to disagree.
It’s not clear to me what temperament means precisely. If you mean that Sanders is ornery and feeds supporters’ id—I am not sure I agree.
If you mean strategy (something I mentioned in my response, not just policy), then it’s not clear that Warren is clearly better than Sanders…

I’m not convinced that Warren has a better constructed platform. The article above states that Sanders’s policies are under-appreciated for their detail. One reason that some people take Warren’s platform as better constructed is that she presents herself as the one with the wonk-chops “I’ve got a plan for that,” but…

“I don’t like candidate X because of the smugness of some of candidate X’s followers” is a dumb position. Do you like the policies and strategy of the candidate or no?

That’s wrong. Aaron Swartz died because the government is defending outdated ideas of property. Workers who go on strike are ‘stealing’ the time they contracted to give to their employers.
There are plenty of times when theft is not only okay, but great. The preservation of games (that would otherwise languish in the…

The problem with Dwight Howard liking Thanos isn’t that Thanos is a bad guy who wants to kill everyone. The problem is that Thanos fucking sucks as a villain.
Darth Vader, Hans Gruber, Magneto—all bad guys, but rad as hell! Thanos is a computer toe with fake motivation.