I'm inclined to agree about the most exciting pop artist out there right now. Apparently she has an album that is basically done as of last year but the record company is holding it up for some unfathomable reason, and she put together Number 1 Angel and released it as a mixtape out of frustration that the album was…

'Petit' is pronounced 'petty', give or take a bit of emphasis/accent. It's also pretty clear from the review that, beyond the spelling, the reviewer did not grasp the concept behind the term. That is what I was attempting to point out more so than just the spelling.

Yes I think I commented further down the thread that the way it was written in the review was botched so badly that it confounded my half-assed attempts at correcting it. You are very right about language being a living thing but it seems that the reviewer missed the meaning entirely.

Woo hoo, Bad Liar! Such a great track.

That's the joke.

The flip side would be that the economic anxiety (which, let's be clear, is itself often a euphemism for hopeless, crushing poverty and human misery) is often dismissed or minimized based on the real or alleged racism of those who suffer from that anxiety. I object to the notion that people need to be moral exemplars…

Makes sense. Glad to hear the whole country is not like that.

I visited Zurich once. Biggest bunch of shitheads I've ever encountered, TBH.

So, the country that provided banking services to the Third Reich and laundered all the riches that the Nazis stole from liquidated Jews doesn't like when people call others fascists and anti-Semites? Glad they're taking a stand. Better late than never, I suppose.

I will take issue with the starting off harmless part. I've never seen more mugging in my life than the first 10 min. of the first episode. I couldn't make it any further. It was unbearable even on the level of hatewatching.

You have literally no idea what energy I've expended on opposing the AHCA. But apparently you think that doing so would preclude bringing up single payer. And again, I was arguing with someone's characterization of being against single payer as being 'realistic', and you jump in with 'everyone here agrees with you, so…

I am interested in moving forward, specifically under the positive, constructive banner of Medicare For All, a concrete, material benefit for working class and middle class people that will rally support and enthusiasm around a competing project politically.

Also, in case you hadn't noticed, the actual person I was replying to did in fact disagree with that, hence my response.

"Even if we ceded that point…"

Obviously they never came out and said it is as many words, but that was certainly one of the tactics used by the Correct the Record internet troll campaign.

Being a Democrat against single payer isn't realistic, it's being obstructionist as well as self-defeating. Possibly provoking war with a nuclear armed superpower over Syria is not being a realist, it's being a lunatic.

A sizable majority of Americans including a near majority of Republicans support single payer health care and Hillary said it would never, ever happen. Like over 80% of Americans were against TPP and Hillary only turned around on it with a gun to her head. Most Americans were against another war in the Middle East and…

Agreed. I'd like to see a lot more inquiries into why, for example, African American turnout was so much lower this election, which was true not only in places with measures actively aimed at voter suppression but also in cities like Philadelphia which could have swung Pennsylvania. I'm sure some fraction of it was an…

Do you actually seriously believe that Hillary is not center-right?

It's true there was a lot of GDP growth and some sweet asset bubbles in the '90s, but it's also when inequality really started to take off after the deregulation of 70s and 80s and the Reagan tax cuts, and also when de industrialization became even more acute after the passage of NAFTA, so, I think if anything the…