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Easily one of the worst things I've read from any political book was the very first sentence of Murray Rothbard's For A New Liberty, which starts off ...
August 07, 2019 at 02:44
One of the things that uniquely characterizes America is it's refusal to acknowledge the vile mistakes in the past and hold any type of responsibility...
August 07, 2019 at 02:37
Looking forward to "debating" this for the next round of mass shootings!
August 07, 2019 at 02:24
@"StreetlightX" I read certain comments on the internet and just stare at them in disbelief and it feels like the screen of my computer becomes some s...
August 07, 2019 at 02:23
As a matter of fact, Capitalism creates oligopolies. Market concentration has increased rapidly over the last 30 years as corporate lobbyists pushed f...
August 07, 2019 at 02:17
This isn't even an argument!
August 07, 2019 at 01:53
Marx skewered the arguments typified in the original post over 150 years ago. "Freedom, Equality, Property and Bentham" sound wonderful in abstract th...
August 07, 2019 at 01:41
This is tortured reasoning. You just refuse to accept the fact that low income adults are capable of understanding how the socio-economic system they ...
August 07, 2019 at 01:34
I made it clear that the Senate is set up to be ludicrously undemocratic, and not reflective of the voting population. Has nothing to do with the fact...
August 07, 2019 at 01:23
Are we playing the jack off to the founding fathers game?
August 06, 2019 at 04:46
Do you sincerely believe that adults making less than $30K annually are reading arguments laid out in the works of academics? Or do you think they are...
August 06, 2019 at 04:20
That fact isn't relevant to your original claim. You claimed that Capitalism is an "obviously desirable thing", and that those who oppose or "vehement...
August 06, 2019 at 04:00
Weird you say that since Socialism is viewed more positively and Capitalism more negatively by adults with family income less than $30K than Adults wi...
August 06, 2019 at 03:45
Pretty unbelievable that anyone can defend free market Capitalism in the year two thousand nineteen
August 06, 2019 at 02:57
Of course it was never meant to be entirely democratic as it was constructed by slave-owners who subsequently only allowed property owning white men t...
August 06, 2019 at 02:47
The Senate is an extremely undemocratic system and we should get rid of it
August 05, 2019 at 22:23
Get rid of guns you morons
August 05, 2019 at 20:12
I think Sanders and Warren both did an excellent job tonight; she certainly wasn't eclipsed by him and ultimately they both made a strong argument for...
July 31, 2019 at 03:07
IT WAS 108 DEGREES IN PARIS LAST WEEK WHY ARE THEY ASKING ABOUT AGE KILL ME
July 31, 2019 at 02:24
Marianne is doing better than all of them save for Warren, Bernie, and Pete
July 31, 2019 at 02:09
WHO IS JOHN DELANEY WHY AM I SEEING HIM AND HEARING HIM NON-STOP HE IS POLLING AT LESS THAN 1% JESUS FUCK
July 31, 2019 at 02:06
Constructing a complex socio-politico-economical system that substantively affects human lives from the fiat of two abstract principles is the modus o...
July 30, 2019 at 02:30
It's not optimism; I have no idea how any of the Democratic candidates will actual fair against Trump when it comes down to election day, and anyone w...
July 26, 2019 at 06:01
Sure, but that outcome isn't true of several key states that Trump previously won including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, etc. So while Ohio may cu...
July 26, 2019 at 05:40
The nation elects the president, not Ohio.
July 26, 2019 at 05:18
All serious Democratic candidates are polling higher 1:1 against Trump, so I don't understand why ideological position matters at this juncture. At be...
July 26, 2019 at 02:24
Really just one of the finest scenes in cinema.
July 26, 2019 at 01:12
If you want to feel happy for a fleeting hour or so watch this excellent debate regarding Greek vs. Rome and which culture modernity is more indebted ...
July 26, 2019 at 01:11
Just Google Osita Nwanevu and New Yorker and read his most recent article
July 24, 2019 at 02:55
Good article on how (White) Nationalism is becoming an ad hoc conservative intellectualism as a response to Trump.
July 24, 2019 at 01:46
Sounds like an extremely flawed system
July 23, 2019 at 19:21
Gotta thank the Brits for being just as dumb as us Americans
July 23, 2019 at 13:08
I didn't argue this. You said that "no one is telling in either of the two parties to be more moderate." I pointed out how this is not true. That's it...
July 21, 2019 at 22:50
Except for not one, not two, not three, but at least four, regular NYT Op-Ed columnists written just in the last month or so (and in fact both Bret St...
July 21, 2019 at 17:45
lol you said I was a "fucking media puppet" so here is a reminder for you to put your pants on first tomorrow morning and then your shoes. Seems like ...
July 21, 2019 at 05:26
Throw everyone in ICE and CBP in jail and let the immigrants in the concentration camps live in their homes. Easy.
July 21, 2019 at 04:20
Incidentally, here is Buttigieg saying exactly what I've been saying.
July 21, 2019 at 04:08
The questions and set of answers are very clearly presented in each of the polls I've provided, all of which have been from PEW Research which is a ve...
July 21, 2019 at 04:01
Outside of the fact that I simply don't believe for an instant that you are anyone here has "interviewed" immigrants on their views of undocumented im...
July 21, 2019 at 03:53
You do realize that @"halo" is a random person on the internet, right? And who do you think takes these surveys and polls if not "actual immigrants"? ...
July 21, 2019 at 03:37
I was traveling around Texas speaking to some Mexicans and they all were saying how much they love Trump! Every single one! They said to me, we came i...
July 21, 2019 at 03:33
hmm ok well here's a good sample showing most Latinos lean liberal/Dem
July 21, 2019 at 03:17
I wouldn't necessarily say rural since they are undeniable megachurches in areas such as California that are solidly pro-Trump. Not to mention the fac...
July 21, 2019 at 03:12
my response
July 21, 2019 at 02:37
It has nothing to do with manipulation. If the public approval for Medicare goes down because of a specific concern viz., that people will lose their ...
July 21, 2019 at 02:27
Sure, but as I point out clarification and framing can shift this approval. So as I said, the way to confront this issue for voters is to say, well ac...
July 21, 2019 at 01:59
Easy problem to confront given that the average person holds ~11 different jobs by the time they are 50, meaning that - assuming each employer actuall...
July 21, 2019 at 01:51
Also to all everyone saying working class people love Trump or are conservative etc. no, sorry this isn't 1953. Working class doesn't equal white or w...
July 21, 2019 at 00:41
When differences between parties are so far removed from one another ideologically, compromise as such becomes a major liability. What is there to com...
July 21, 2019 at 00:39