Social democracies are successful, in the short term, until their populations level off or shrink or become less homogenous, kind of like they’re starting to do now

Dude, what are you even talking about? Turning citizens into subjects? That’s just nonsense.

I hate to break it to you but the extreme right doesn’t give a shit about the economic well-being of white, middle-aged, devout Christians either.

You need to know more people. The woman in the office next to mine not only likes the films but has bought every single one released on Blu-Ray pretty much as soon as they were released.

They have a garbage roster no doubt, but it’s possible to have a garbage roster and manage a defense more organized than what your local AYSO side throws out there on Saturday morning.

Saute the carrots/onions/assorted veggies first, then add your broth/water and bring to a boil, then cook the noodles.

Same here, they actually did it two or three years in a row. The first one was the very best since it was more of an autocross event with different types of “courses” with a big timed event at the end. Plus a general practice course to try out various types of Mazda products including their minivan. The next year it…

Yeah, no, sorry. We go through this run around every time the DPP gets elected. The hardliners start claiming that THIS time they’ll really push for full independence. But guess what, they never even come close.

This is all fine and good, but nobody in the real world has discussed Taiwanese independence. Tsai has not called for it in Taiwan nor has Trump in the US (to my knowledge).

Berlusconi is Italy’s Trump. Or I should say, Trump is the US’s poor version of Berlusconi.

Pretty much.

Che did every single one of those things. He was a murderous psychopath.

Nope, the Castro regime was not any different at all. The only difference was which side was committing the atrocities. Fuck ‘em both.

Your close family friend probably had to flee Cuba because they were Batista supporters. I don’t particularly feel bad for them losing everything when their side lost when they were perfectly happy for the Batista regime to kidnap, torture, and publicly execute anyone suspected of opposing them.

Rural whites who want a return of manufacturing jobs aren’t delusional to want them to return. It would be great if that somehow happened.

Oh please stop with that bullshit that drafts are effective field levelers.

They do offer it on domestic flights, just not on Southwest.

Several years ago, American tried out a whole thing where they tore out some coach seats and gave everyone a few more inches of leg room in coach. Had a whole marketing campaign built around it. It was a disaster. It resulted in no increases in passengers and the airline lost money because they had fewer seats on the…

Term limits are such a good idea, that they’ve never been seriously implemented.

First off, foreign language instruction is regularly cut at a variety of schools. Most offer Spanish and French and that’s it. German language classes are continuously being cut and not replaced by anything to the point where it’s not particularly common (although certainly not rare). Chinese is really only growing at…