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.

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.

He isn’t wrong. People on assistance are already on the poverty end of the spectrum and eating junk food is like a death sentence to them. If they got fresh food and cooked more (I know this is hard, but it is worth it), they would help prevent a lot of shitty diseases/conditions that go with poor diet. Then they…

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?

But the larger point: Why is Clinton even taking a call from such a monstrous person?

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.

Well he wrote a very charming article a few months back about how he stiffed a restaurant just because they didn’t take cash and ended up getting his meal for free anyway, like it was some sort of proletariat victory over the bourgeois.

I would LOVE to hear more about HAMNO’s life. I really feel like it would be illuminating in the way that Freud and Rand’s lives were.

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.

Or since HamNo’s model of benevolent tech socialism will never come to fruition, you could just pay for real news at any number of newspaper sites that are trying to generate revenue using a pay wall.

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.