In summary:

This comment section gave me cancer.

No matter how good digital gets, I’ve yet to see something that is CGI that fooled me.

i’m exaggerating a bit but, for me, that ‘process’ looked a bit like this!

So gleeful. What’s your hourly rate? $10?

Try a V12 Jaguar.

Great point, would rather have North Korea.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

I’ve been practicing yoga for DECADES and have NEVER come across a yoga class that gets “caught up in the eastern mysticism thing.” What’s your reference point?

In an ideal world, cultural appropriation would only be called out if it was someone who expressed something racist or discriminatory about another culture.

Sanders seems to use dem-soc and social-dem interchangeably. They’re different, but from what I’ve seen from interacting with Europeans and Sanders advocates, using the terms interchangeably isn’t a big deal, since the policies he’s advocating for is more definitive than any term.

I mean, there are LOTS of other sources saying the same damn thing.

Right? It’s been the most frustrating part of watching his campaign unfold. Especially since “social democrat” is not only a more correct description, but also a much more palatable phrase to voters.

There was a great piece on his self-labeling in the NY Times the day after the first debates. IMO, Sanders is doing himself a huge disservice by insisting he’s a socialist. (May as well drop the “democratic,” because when one uses the “s” word, that’s all most people hear as they run from the room.)

Yeah, NPR is a well-known bastion of conservatism. Same with the poli sci professors from 2 of the strongest such programs in the country.

If he says he’s a social democrat, giving a 1-hour speech on the topic of democratic socialism seems like a deeply odd choice.

No, you’re right. He’s a Social Democrat, not a Democratic Socialist. Or at least he says he is.

And of course I’m going to listen to commenters on an article rather than political science professors from the University of Michigan and George Washington University, one of which is consistently among the top-5 political science programs in the country. At the same time, I’m going to listen to chiding about my…

They are here, and they missed the point.