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Biden has been credibly accused of sexual assault. No progressive who cares about women's rights should vote for him until a proper investigation is c...

I think the Dem campaign should run with that. "Vote for us or you're a Nazi".

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This way, please. /uploads/resized/files/pm/schjaqpzegqlk8nw.jpg

Hey if you feel too hot, you might try pouring some liquid nitrogen over yourself. Just an innocent suggestion speculation.

It was a good old puzzler. Had me stumped.

Agreed.

Essentially, he suggested it "might" be a good idea not that it "is" a good idea. The movement to the positive from the speculative is hyperbole somew...

Last one. I do agree with that. If that's all you meant. We are in agreement. G'night.

None of this is about me... Or what I like to be called. We were talking about historical facts. I'm not a historical figure. Yet :starstruck: Not for...

Sure, but what's new since the Boomer generation is the hugely increased wealth and opportunity gap. See, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Our-Kids-America...

Concentration of wealth combined with money in politics leads to political competition for that money with the currency of exchange being political fa...

Nothing we've said is as remotely unhelpful as accusing someone of TDS. I ignored your question because it didn't directly apply to me.

Yes and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo

Ideologically, Hayek, Friedman. In terms of events, the 70s economic crises. Politicians, Thatcher and Reagan. In general, the rich and monied looking...

It depends on what you mean by "sold out". A certain class looked after its own interests economically. It included social conservatives and social li...

Neolib through and through. What about him?

Yeah, obviously.

It's the dominant economic paradigm anyhow. Trump is a slight aberration, but he mostly tows the line.

At last you got it.

Aha! Another sufferer of TCDS! :gasp:

Clinton and Blair are big ones.

I was talking about neoliberalism.

Don't be silly. Your top tax rate in 1960, for example, was 91%. Besides, just look it up. "Neoliberalism constituted a paradigm shift away from the p...

So, the implication is that the criticism is irrational because it's about Trump. Which itself is irrational. Trump-Critic Derangement Syndrome (TCDS)...

That's a relief! :sweat:

Tried to kick the computer when reading Hansover's posts. M-fucker is going to kill me one of these days. :lol: Nah, was effing about with a football ...

I can modify it to elections are "largely" irrelevant except for... etc and on the economic front that seems fairly accurate to me as the neoliberal c...

It's a made-up-meme, the purpose of which is to discredit criticism of Trump. Period. There is zero more substance to it than that as you're smart eno...

I was just saying you'd been criticized a lot not that you'd done anything wrong.

I thought @"Banno" had moved towards solving his own problem and was about to congratulate him. Have I got this wrong?

:lol:

The political threads are rather rough and tumble anyway. The philosophical threads, we generally keep cleaner. I think that's the way it should be. B...

Fuck it, add the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and dozens of others to that. The political pestilence is almost as widespread as the biological one.

Sorry, missed some of this, are we boycotting America and Israel for torture, false imprisonment, apartheid, failure to comply with UN resolutions and...

There were almost 40,000 new cases of COVID in the US yesterday. I think that's a new daily high. I'm ready to call that the revised-down 60,000 death...

No, it's not mythical TDS in my view, it's because he almost exclusively posts about, and in support of, Trump with often a high degree of apparently ...

Go on then. Quote me and tell me why I'm wrong. That's all I expect of anyone here.

I've no interest in these silly face-saving comments. I'm not anti-American and you can give yourself a pat on the head for everything your country ha...

Apparently, in a "civilized democracy" not voting for a candidate who doesn't represent your values or the policies you want to see enacted is an unac...

I just wrote four paragraphs on it. See above. One issue is that if you define yourself entirely negatively with regard to the opposing side, you don'...

@"180 Proof" ? I think you may be on the opposing side here and be ready to kick my ass. :razz:

Sad neither of you can support your position. It's all just, other side bad. Read more maybe. I bet there are others who can give cogent arguments for...

*Shrug* Insofar as you don't have any arguments, it doesn't matter what you think.

What's absurd to me is to expect the left to vote for a right-winger who doesn't support universal healthcare and on foreign policy leans more imperia...

The point about leverage is well made. The Dem establishment has given Anerican progressives a choice between self-castration and four more years of T...

Out the window goes the GOP line that Trump's more mentally competent than Biden. No matter how far Joe declines, he's never going to beat disinfectan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPxct29FqD0 Birx's face is priceless.

Got my vote.

He's just trying to cover for his stupidity and is, unfortunately, adding to it. Look at the tape, he was talking to the doctors not the media.