A tax on the highest income earners manifests as a marginal increase in interest rates for capital (particularly high risk venture capital). Part of maintaining a healthy economy is trying to keep the marginal return to demand as equal as possible to the marginal return to capital. Ie, that you don’t have more demand…

He voted against the bill’s previous independent incarnation before it was stuffed into the Omnibus. Pretty obviously against it.

Here’s the Iraq authorization bill. It is simple, not amended.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills…

You’re trying, and failing gloriously I might add, to conflate a rider stuffed omnibus spending bill and simple straightforward resolution. This is 100% clear cut. Either you can’t comprehend basic categorical…

“”The Commodity Futures Modernization Act was a much bigger cause of the financial crisis than GLBA was by far and away. Bernie Sanders voted for that legislation. Can you vote for Bernie Sanders?

Wait. The decision to invade and occupy another country - which will inevitably result in tens of thousands of civilian causalities, only because some shady CIA assets say the dictator has WMD’s, while Kim Jong Il does have WMD’s and we ignore it, while UN inspectors say the dictator doesn’t, while the rest of the…

“or a bad Secretary of State”

I certainly am. Her tacit support of the Honduran Coup and hawkishness in Libya would, I think, lead any anti-war/left voter to that conclusion?

“But that does not ipso facto mean that, in 2016, Bernie Sanders would be a better commander-in-chief and President.”

Maybe not, but I look at it…

“ or the fact he voted to give gun manufacturers immunity against litigation.”

Yeah, see, the thing is he hasn’t. People keep talking about giving special privileges to gun manufacturers, but all he voted for was that they should not have special liability. If someone buys a machete from Sears and murders someone,…

No, because there are special FCC regulations that don’t allow this since telecom is considered a utility reliant on a public good to operate. That whole mhz spectrum that makes wireless possible- the public owns it.

I’m completely off grid.
So let me be the first to say, with a clean conscience: Suck a dick, tool.

You mean a 17 year old game that has Elminster in it, who, over a decade before the game came out, had a M to F sex change at one point in his series of novels that defined the game world. . .

Sparrows have been a symbol of the working class since the Medieval Era, especially in Britain.

As a Catholic, we were taught growing up that Sparrows represented god’s love for even the small, insignificant creatures - because they were cheaply purchased as scarifies by the poor (the idea that god valued the…

Is your GM Kim Jong Un?
Because it sounds like your GM is Kim Jong Un.

I think you mean “stop having opinions I don’t have”.
No one is kicking down the door to your private fanclub here.

I get the trope is real and frustrating, but it would have been really awkward to put fan armor on Lexa and have her ride off into the sunset never to be seen again. This IS The 100, people die left and right. Lexa’s death was fundamental to the plot - if it was just some pointless “kill the queer” moment, yeah by all…

I’d say he’s right about here on the spectrum.

Politically it makes a lot of sense. Say it in the MSM, put out a retraction on Twitter (where only the youngs will see it). All the moderate-right baby boomers who hate Trump just heard her praise Reagan and cede to their tendency to rewrite history and will never see the retraction. She knows the delegate math, she…

A lot of people have man, it’s not just you. There’s a lot of Fox Mulder syndrome right now, “they want to believe”.

She probably just conflated Stem Cell research with AIDS, I assume it was an honest mistake. That said, that someone could make such a tremendous mistake like that shows how much they really care about the issue/group. It’s as egregious as someone confusing Stalin as an advocate of democracy. . .

Fuckwads are going to get in anyways, because the average citizen’s fuckwad is the plutocrat’s champion. Good is totally relative, and the system has become very, very skewed towards weeding out people who aren’t “good” for the donor class.

I think the show assumes we’re adults, capable of a little bit more of moral analysis than good guy/bad guy. . . .