“there is broad, national support for a progressive agenda”

But the problem with Bernie and his often fanatical supporters is that his “progressive agenda” is focused almost exclusively on middle class white people, which he has openly stated for years. After watching the current Democratic president easily win two elections by broadening the Democratic base and acknowledging…

No Sanders supporter owes Clinton their vote. The onus is on her to earn those votes, and if she can’t, then she’s flawed, not the voters.

It is all so arbitrary it is almost impressive. I said this in another comment, but I had my hair in a bun going through security and the agent said they had to touch it. Not wanting my hair felt up by someone who’s BO I could smell from 3 feet away and who’s gloves had touched 1,000 other gross people that day, I…

US election cycle. It makes most people into idiots. That’s my theory.

The arbitrary way they do things is where most of my frustration with the TSA comes in. Their total lack of common sense ranks up there, too. I had my hair in a sloppy bun when I went through, and the lady said they had to feel it. Trying to make life easier (and to avoid gross people touching me with gloves they have…

Then why are the vast majority of terrorist attacks aimed at markets and transit centers?

I strongly suspect a worker slowdown over the past couple weeks.

I flew out of Seatac 2 weeks ago and the line was typical, 15 minutes or so. I then flew out exactly one week later on the same flight at the same time, same day of the week, and the lines were crazy long. As in the slowest moving, longest lines I have…

Or we could admit that the TSA is still just security theater, does next to nothing about stopping threats, and push lawmakers to remove this underfunded and unnecessary inconvenience.

Or maybe that’s completely unreasonable.

How long have you worked for the TSA?

Some simple changes would make the whole process so much faster.

So it’s not a daycare, she’s a babysitter. If you think one of the 10% is an Uber driver then don’t let your kids use Uber unsupervised. It’s that simple. Problem solved. I’m not wrong. You’re being overly dramatic about stranger danger and trying to equate an uber driver, who’s interaction with unsupervised children…

You really don’t understand how to read between the lines. I regurgitated their company line because it’s obvious their taxi companies trying to avoid the regulations and payroll taxis. Go back to Gawker.

LOL funny how having an app makes you a technology company....

Poe’s Law strikes again.

Bull shit. It’s tax avoidance that is at the heart of the whole scheme. You do the work, bear the costs, pay the taxes, and take the risks, and the company takes the profit. The real name for these “independent contractors” is “chumps”.

Except that’s really just the excuse, Uber’s using legal loopholes to fuck both their customers and their “contractors”, and in some cases they also fuck the cities they operate in for good measure (some cities restrict the availability of taxi licenses to control traffic, for instance), because libertarianism, and…

Man, as someone who had season tickets for a couple years and regularly went to 10 games a year and just had something ripped away from him that he had since he was 10 years old, please don’t tell me how to react.