I’m sorry, this whole thing is completely ridiculous. Every single character on the show is a stereotype of something, and Apu is one of the more sympathetic ones at that. On a show filled with complete idiots and sociopaths, Apu has always been written as one of the smarter, more self-aware characters on the show.

I mean, no. It’s not concern, it’s reality. If people who are already on government assistance use that assistance at McDonald’s every day it’s only going to snowball their bad situation into something worse that requires even more government assistance. That’s how you get a welfare state.

So you’re saying people who are on government assistance should be shopping at Whole Foods? It’s just reality. I’m sure even poor neighborhoods have markets where you can buy fruits and veggies, they just may not have been plucked from their roots that morning.

You seem angry.

Well, they’re poor. They can’t expect to shop at Whole Foods.

The vegetarian angle is a little extreme, but the broader point he’s making about the effective use of taxpayer dollars is sound.

No, his take is - if you are already getting help from the government and making unhealthy choices that will make you even more reliant on the government, perhaps food stamps aren’t good for anyone.

Why should we be paying for people to make their bad situations worse? If you are already getting help from the government and are making unhealthy choices that will only make you more reliant on the government, that doesn’t seem like it’s worth subsidizing.

And here we arrive at the crux of the problem. Any differing of opinion is quickly dismissed as either BIGOTRY or TROLLING, regardless of the structure or validity of the point being made. Leftists are so quick these days to assume any rebuttal is rooted in racism or disingenuous nature.

I fail to see how he’s treating this as entertainment. His first words from the passage being criticized are “Take a moment to think about the history unfolding before our eyes.”

Hamilton Nolan. Bernie Sanders. Person of Color A.

I don’t really care?

He’s not wrong, what realistically is there for us to do about this and how far will shitting our pants get us? The FBI is clearly doing their job despite the president’s best efforts.

They don’t let socialists in important places.

So we’re just supposed to let the gassing of Assad’s people go unchecked?  This isn’t Iraq, kiddo. There is cold hard proof Assad is committing genocide on a mass scale utilizing chemical weapons, likely with assistance from Russia.

There is literally not going to be a left anymore once everyone fails your purity tests. Hope you enjoy 4 more years of trump.

Pretty rich response coming from you. Judging by your comment history the founding fathers would have sent your overly sensitive ass packing.

Unionizing really is the quickest way to put your job in jeopardy.

You must be new here. Hamilton both LOVES tax and also knows nothing about it. Creates some pretty entertaining posts.

“You could accomplish this sort of redistribution of wealth through the tax code, via a tax designed to take from any platform that distributes news without paying for it, and plow the money back into the creation of news.”