I’ll piggy back off your excellent point: Why the fuck was this poor guy in jail for 3 months? It was an overdue rental that Hertz had back after the arrest. He didn’t carjack someone. Making him spend that long in jail, during a goddamn pandemic, for a non-violent crime was unconscionable.

I will never not be amused by the description of Fieri as what would happen if Sammy Hagar had been really into ranch dressing instead of tequila. 

Large companies are no longer interested in making merely SOME of The Money (TM), they are exclusively interested in making ALL of The Money (TM).

Anything that doesn’t accomplish that singular goal is at risk of termination.  Steady, mild success is seen essentially as failure.

Oh we’re “both siding” bigots who fundamentally believe some humans shouldn’t have the same right to exist as everyone else?

I’m not shouting down his concerns about anti-Blackness. There’s a consistent thread here which is “you’re not engaging with the REAL issue he’s putting forward, and that’s just so telling” and it’s entirely frustrating because yes, absolutely, we need people talking about this. His experience is not a handwave.

But he…

For what it’s worth, the people I see gleefully submitting multi-paragraph defenses of Chappelle in comment sections these days appear to be mostly het white men. Joe Rogan types flooding the internet with what they think are formal philosophical deconstructions of wokeness. Not that they aren’t allowed to have their…

It’s not spending other people’s money to get votes, it’s spending our money (as in the entire country’s money) on helping ourselves and each other. If you don’t believe that, I don’t begrudge you that belief, and I don’t think you’re a terrible person. Nor do I think that Romney and Sinema holding sincere policy…

well the first thing to say would be that it’s not 3+ trillion once, it’s over ten years....but I can tell from the language you chose here that you were brainwashed long ago

I don’t see her becoming a Republican, but I could see her someday speaking out in support of No Labels or some other ridiculous “reasonable” group that fetishizes bipartisanship.

She’s a terrible person because instead of representing her voters, she’s dipshitting around in this dumb as fuck cosplay.

Next step is ride out being shitty next 4 years, do some bare minimum shit before her reelection cycle (which may not matter if D’s are in the minority in Senate), see if she can have the DNC fend off Primary challenges for her, fundraise against the “evil Republican” opponent, then if she loses reelection take up a…

So how long until Kyrsten Sinema starts showing up at Trump rallies? After moving from Green Party activist to joyfully flaying the reconciliation bill of anything progressive it seems like the logical next step.  

Oh yeah..go to Gizmodo and you’ll see a bunch of them in any article that is particularly negative towards Musk. A bunch of tech goobers and Roganoids who desperately want to buy into his mythos: That Musk is totes a real life Tony Stark who will, like, save the world...somehow.

By selling us expensive Teslas and…

And sadly, that can’s going to bounce right off the concrete wall of totalitarianism the Republicans are building.

Yeah, Tim Sweeney is right, much better for society to have a few people hoarding most of the wealth while doing next to no work. Hoarding amounts of money so vast that they can’t possibly ever even spend a tiny fraction of it, while millions of their fellow citizens are struggling to find their next meal and pay…

The top 1% of Americans hold ~34% of the wealth. They’ve obviously done a very good job building wealth despite “not holding enough votes.” Compounding this is that these are the people most likely to be hiding wealth in offshore accounts.

Then why are tax rates half of what they were 60 years ago?

First they came for the billionaires, and I said “hell yeah” because I wasn’t a billionaire.

You mean to tell me that this Pedoguy doesn’t want to pay taxes?

I am SO GODDAMN OUTRAGED that I basically agree with most of this and don’t have a chance to write a sarcastic spittle-flecked list of all my problems with it.