Hard disagree. This country is woefully uninformed about science, and that leads to the anti-vaccination movement and climate change denials, among many other problems. NDT is obviously being pedantic with this, but it draws attention to being informed and accurate about representation of physics principles.

I don’t need her to be a leftist dream, I need her to be better than Mitch. It’s a pretty low bar. Campaigning in a way that talks to voters she needs to win over, conservatives who have probably voted red their whole lives (or voted southern democrat when that was still a thing) is smart. 

Reminiscent of how he dismissed Planned Parenthood and the Human Right Fund’s endorsements of Hillary as being because they were part of the establishment so of course they went for her, the establishment candidate.

Never mind that she has been consistently laying out policy. It’s all about that pussay right Bernie?

But you know what you can’t call it?”

I dont really have any patience for those who think we can’t have a reasonable discussion about candidates during a primary. We cant have all 50 of them on the ticket come election day. We gotta pick one. So let’s talk it out.

I dislike him for the same reason I dislike Beto O’Rourke. He’s just some dude with no qualifications, no notable successes, and no big policy idea, just like, I’m young white and goodlooking for a politician, I could be president, right?

I take exception to the characterization of Bernie as “Lawful good”. His self-interest and inability to formulate policy ideas for anything other than white, straight, cis people often kneecaps the actually good stuff he has pushed for over the course of his lifetime! Also, his inability to hand off the reigns of his…

when rich people hear that we want everyone to get equal access to healthcare, they naturally assume that means they’ll have to suffer the way we do, because they know that their extreme wealth depends fundamentally on our poverty

David Mamet is really good at writing plays about shitty people because as they say “write what you know.”

Pregnancy is a potential consequence of sex. If a man isn’t prepared to accept that his sexual partner may choose an abortion, he shouldn’t have sex.

supporting israel on its face certainly isn’t allegiance to a foreign power. but taking money from pro-israel groups and then pushing legislation (texas HB 89, to be more specific) that punishes anti-israel speech & boycotts—what is that, exactly? what do you call a law that prioritizes the economic well-being of a…

and what has she said that provides you with this unwavering declaration?

No one is claiming there is no antisemitism on the left — there certainly is, just as there is homophobia, racism, misogyny, classism etc.; we live in a culture built on those things and it’s absurd to think the left would magically be exempt from them — but allowing plainly disingenuous Republicans (and their…

Thank you for this piece. To this point:

I will continue to need to speak for the reasonable Jew community of this country. Engel, shut the fuck up. There is positively nothing anti-Semitic about what she said. If she was talking about any other country, this article wouldn’t exist.

If only someone had warned Trump voters about this kind of behavior before the election!

It’s about deliberately constructing a political third rail.

I swear, the Omar thing pisses me off. You can’t even remotely criticize Israel or their cronies without immediately being labelled anti-semitic. From the same group of people that pull out their fainting couch every time a liberal calls someone racist for doing blatantly racist shit (like Trump, regularly). And the…

“I thought I had daddy issues!”