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Not illegitimate enough to hail down live bullets upon them en masse. The protestors have so far been supremely disciplined - much too disciplined to ...

They are of no importance because they are obvious. Trump's depravity is a political fact. It's an emblazoned sign with goddamn sparklers shooting out...

You create a fucking star. At least one of the things this means is that you depersonalize politics, entirely. If you find yourself talking about Trum...

You're right let me rephrase: How about: "When things are put into water, things become wet"; or, "when shapes are round, they have no sharp edges". W...

We mod each other, you're welcome to report me. But I'm quite serious. That's the banal rubbish that the personalization and moralization of politics ...

It's like flies to an electric light... Pseudo questions posed as if not everyone already knew the answer. This fucking world. Its here. Stop acting. ...

This isn't a question of principles, this is one of strategy. It is the obsessional concern with Trump's character that is, when not naive, actively h...

Political life is not an epistemological game, and if you play it as one, you will lose, and people will suffer immensely. Only the dead can eat truth...

For those who don't know, HK just invoked emergency powers to ban face masks in public places. This will be interesting. I can't imagine that this wil...

'Ifs' are of no use to anyone. Especially since as a 'strategy', it has quite obviously been - and will continue to be - a marked failure. In fact mor...

I... I love this.

Maybe we should do a weekly vote.

Awesome. Good. Yes. The more these themes dominate the conversation, the more the left claims the very terms of debate, the better off the US will be....

Solid!

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Jamalrob is now Jamaorob.

All hail our new Chinese overlords!

The most effective 'reactions' to Trump to my mind have been precisely those who have not merely re-acted but acted to change the conversation entirel...

Imagine thinking immigration policy is a result of either charatcter or morality.

Yes. The more people learn to discard irrelavent questions, the better off we'll all be.

When politics is confused with morality, people fucking die. Morality is for those who can't think.

I refer you to the majority of the discussion around Trump, which is almost singularly devoid of policy or process, of which this thread and it's part...

Not interested in hypotheticals. We don't live in theory-land. More distraction. More useless discussion.

Imagine being so entitled as to think there must be an impeachment process because Trump is yucky, and if substantive democratic debate must be washed...

Actually, it was Brooks' column that was cited by the Jacobin writer I quoted a few pages back. It's not altogether trash, surprisingly: "Democrats ar...

Man, I never thought I'd be agreeing with David Brooks but - "who ought to settle this? A few hundrerd thousand voters in the public or a hundred mill...

Relying on the US to do anything at this point would be folly. A nation in the throws of decline that would quite easily throw us to Chinese wolves. N...

What seems to be the issue? It's pretty clear that a great deal of Trump's opponents have been uniquely useless at actually opposing anything whatsoev...

:rofl: Trump is out there putting people in cages and Plutocrtizing the cabinet and someome thinks the most appropriate response is to extensively cit...

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I've very little of anything good to say about Obama, the dronestrike, deportation commander-in-chief of the biggest surveillance state in the world. ...

Look, the focus on personality, character, integrity, behaviour, whatever, is completely trivial. It destroys any attempt to understand why the world ...

What is this, a hallmark card?

Character entails nothing. Character is for gossip magazines, TV reality shows, and children's fairytales. Good Guys and Bad Guys. Only the politicall...

You're cheerleaders at your own bloody funerals. Character? My God no wonder the world is burning.

Oh my God please never talk about politics again, people like you are why Trump can get away with what he does.

Don't care about any of this, at all, in the slightest. 'Character' is another distraction made for dupes. Consider instead giving a shit about the re...

Oh boy, Green. Can we change the color every day? I think that would be fun.

Yes, it is. The faster people stop pathologizing Trump - and those who support him - the better they will be able to grasp Trump as a political phenom...

Trump is a perfectly normal American person.

Passions, bitches.

This is one of the reasons why anyone who thinks the problem is epistemic ('we just need to know the facts!/we need more information') is deluding the...

Oh make no mistake. Trump is an abomination, but he is an abomination birthed by an equally abominable system. The only relevant question is how to be...

Then to hell with those people. I don't care about 'variety' of words. I care about people. If words are getting in the way of treating human beings d...

No doubt. But then, what you buy into is of no consequence.

Oh no it won't lead to the end of the world. The world will go on spinning quite nicely without us. It will just lead to the end of any habitable worl...

I believe that your point was that climate catastrophism was unwarranted, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Yep. I despise the way in...

Given that the general scientific consensus (>97%) is that man made climate change is a real phenomenon quite apart from the natural cycles of climate...

I don't owe you shit. You tried to use a graph of limited usefulness in order to make a bigger point to which it was not suited. I pointed that out. I...

I didn't call the data faulty. I said it was shitty corroborating data: it is not data that can be used to draw the conclusions you would like.