He deserves something of a pass.

Can you imagine a world in which there were no hypothetical situations?

This is a good point that I feel people are missing. It IS kind of logical that an African American man, hoping to get involved in politics and activism, would try out a few black led organization. The fact that he did so and quickly realized “oh whoops, this is NOT the kind of shit I want to promote or be associated…

Pull up your big girl socks. Our people (I’m Native American, you’re an immigrant) have dealt with much much worse. You’re here & I’m here bc our ancestors dealt with genocide, smallpox epidemics, violence, rape, and severe prejudice. The least we can do is pull it together and fight this bullshit.

I also agree with cap gains as ordinary income.

the poor don’t really pay any income tax and most often have negative rates.

Reduce the corporate income tax to 0%. Convert all private companies to C corps. Limit stock buy backs. make dividends ordinary income. Forget depreciation and allow every expense to be seen in the current year. Increase personal taxes on the weathly.

While I agree that poverty makes everything worse, as someone who is deathly afraid of drowning and only really afraid of being poor again, I’d take poor over drowning any day.

Not at all.

“but he’s also a cruel, selfish grifter.”

*shrugs* I’m pragmatic and feel like ideological purity is partly what got us Trump in the first place. Like do you want a Bolton or Giuliani? As much as it’d be just desserts to have the country burn down on Trump’s watch, living in NYC can only isolate me so much.

If Democrats knew anything about the effectiveness of messaging, they would immediately brand this guy as “The Foreclosure King”.

And once again I’m going to answer you: Nope. I don’t have any opinion worth sharing on the matter. That’s not what this conversation is about.

I said it with regards to Brexit and it’s just as true here. Whether or not you can beat back the arguments intellectually is beside the point, the reality is those results are a symptom of larger issues within the country. That they make zero fucking sense doesn’t matter when the Centre-Left’s response is “Nah dudes,…

I’m thinking about it—what if we were able to present the opinion of someone affected by Castro without commentary, while also holding the belief that Saudi Arabia’s rights record and Guantanamo are bad? That’d be wild. If only it were possible...

I guess I’m curious why we, as a culture, let certain people get away with “action A”, and others who did “action A” get condescending comments like yours...for doing the same thing.

I read an interesting thing several months ago (sorry, I can’t find it now) about how the general terribleness of the population leaves two viable paths: (1) illiberal democracy, where the majority oppresses the minority, and (2) undemocratic liberalism, where liberal protections are imposed against the will of the…

A gay man puts a ring on his beard as quickly as humanly possible.

I’m not “desperately” ignoring the 3/5 compromise, I was just stoned and forgot. But, since you bring it up, the 3/5 compromise was the exact opposite of what you suggest.

I’m not even American- that’s another common issue, people who think the sun revolves around the US.