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When conservatives say that “it’s so hard to do business in California,” what they really mean is that they can’t be quite as greasy and grimy as their counterparts in Red States.

Zionists can’t stop providing evidence of their war crimes online.

All good points. From a 30,000 foot view, the US, as a polity, is in the most advantageous position in the world. There is a crucial difference between the US and Nigeria and most countries in the recently politically decolonized nations on Earth, the US is an empire. Empires in decline often...

This is peak libertarianism. A guy who uses authoritarian crackdowns on protestors and who bows down to dollar hegemony, meets a guy whose main business ventures are based on gov’t contracts and whose secondary venture is a money losing app where he personally co-signs every white supremacist...

This current system is unsustainable and there will be more and more failures within it and it will cause more and more ruptures in society. What we want is for the preponderance of forces on the ground to be so thoroughly in our favor that we don’t have to fight. Build as much community and...

These next 6-7 months can’t go by fast enough. Every discussion of broader issues will be reduced to arguing about voting and those discussions about voting will be freighted down with the weight of every other socio political issue in the world. This spring and summer will be defined by the...

What we have with the Democratic coalition is a vast, diverse group that, when wielded effectively and when united, can use electoral politics to improve the quality of life in this country, for most people, relative to the alternative on offer. The Democratic Grandees, by which I mean electeds...

If there is one thing everyone who posts here can agree upon is, f*** the NIMBYs.

If your organization has booked the use of a crucial transportation artery AND it has a lot of money, you should pay whatever congestion taxes exist in that place. If it's a spontaneous protest, ok, I get it but otherwise, you should pay for the disruption. On the issue of congestion pricing in...

I mean, I could teach them about regressions and ****. They’d be good to go, IMHO.

So many MLM pitches

Basically, it's like early modern Europe where an up and coming banking family would "lend" money to the one of great dynasties, particularly the Habsburgs or the Bourbons. Officially, it was a loan that would be paid back but in practice, that "loan" was gift/bribe that would never be paid back...

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When triple parentheses are too subtle.

DEI stands for Dominicans against Electric vehicles and for Internal combustion.

Meh, MSNBC is basically a Bush 43 staffer reunion at this point. It’s funny to see this terrible hire as the redline when MSNBC has been doing many terrible hires since 2017. Apparently, Killing and othering brown people, stealing elections, enriching your cronies, and ineptly presiding over...

Freedom of domination vs. Freedom from domination, is a great way to frame American politics that accounts for the vastness and diversity of this country and across all discrete political issues. As always, spot on takes from Jamelle Bouie.

Common was so prescient to write this song about the travails that the Trump family would face in 2024. But luckily, freedom will come when he gets re-elected for the third time.

Windows with no shutters or curtains in an urban area are more of wealthy, white, new money thing. It came from the fact that old money whites often times skimp on curtains and shutters for their rural estates where there is a lot of privacy due to the fact that you're not near other...