Would you like another straw to grasp at?

If you can find a single US politician who combines 1) the highest approval rating of any national-profile elected official, 2) a robust critique of capitalism (using the C word, naming and shaming), 3) a battle-ready political organization that’s spent the two years between doing public issue-based education and…

Pathetic

Mahmoud is one of the most naturally gifted posters in human history and We Must Encourage Him.

Fuck off somewhere else, dude.

Yeah, and being honest, this is probably the second-least-offensive topic in the book to centrists and libs (least offensive to them is the stuff on the reactionaries, obviously).

Oh boy, these comments are gonna be gold, baby

The only thing I’ve ever envied about baseball is the walk up song. Despite despising the sport, I’ve given an inordinate amount of thought to this question, in the hope that one day hockey incorporates the practice with their already-gimmicky shootout. This is my shootout skate up song:

In fairness, Durango is barely a city to the people from the east coast megalopolis. And that’s good. We gotta keep the southern Colorado towns secret.

This is true, but in defense of Drew’s consideration of my home, you can get here on most major airlines in less than 4 hours. AK is a bit of a hike and most Americans never get to experience it, which is a pity.

I know your post is about doing it to us, but this is basically exactly how I felt after SB50. I got my Von Miller World Ender game and I was like “cool, I can be done now.” I bought a bunch of the Broncos SB Champ commemorative Bic lighters and started doing a bit where I would talk about how “The Broncos won the…

I’d say a lot of level-headed lifers are ambivalent on the growth: growth in itself is almost always a good thing; growth at the levels we’re experiencing while we still have TABOR on the books is choking/destroying our local physical infrastructure and straining public services. Look in to TABOR if you don’t know…

In fairness, the weed prices are actually dropping! It’s literally everything else that’s getting more expensive. Pueblo, correctly, was identified as the best city, but Colorado sucks so much ass now that the only good places to spend time or live are towns of fewer than 25,000 people. If you want the Colorado dream,…

Mmmm, see, we differ in our analyses. You think the voting bloc is what gets fragmented, where I see the party grandees being fragmented. There is less than zero evidence that the average Dem voter won’t vote for a socialist platform. The key to entering power isn’t convincing Dems to vote for you as a socialist, it’s…

Better ROI than giving to the Dems, though

See, I disagree. If you want to actually change shit, you have to know EXACTLY what you want to do with the power, and you have to know way before you achieve power. Especially on the Left, once you enter power, the capitalist timer starts and you’re limited in what you can do, so best have a blueprint.

The two…

Actually, the DSA is infinitely larger as a party, because it’s a dues-paying political party. The Democrats aren’t actually a party, at all. You can’t become a member of the Democratic party. You can register to vote as a Dem, but you can’t join the party and vote on the platform and candidates by paying dues, like…

I mean, in the abstract I agree with that reasoning 100% (I joined Socialist Alternative, the other main socialist group of note, in May 2016 with the intention of harrying the Dems from the Left in the eventuality of the Clinton administration—oops!). But, in all of my studying of the old commie shitheads that give…

Weird, this successfully flying plane has lost over 1,000 nationwide seats, the Supreme Court, and the Presidency since 2010. Doesn’t sound too successful!

I sincerely hope you’re wrong. My take is that these discussions have to happen before you grasp at the brass ring of power, and there’s no real good time to do it. And “the party” you refer to seems to be the Democrats. These are not Democrats, first. Their (our) loyalty is to an ideology and a set of policy…