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4 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

But we're atheists or agnostics!

And care about more than just the physical safety of our loved ones and communities, unlike the maga chuds

4 minutes ago, marioandsonic said:

Why stop there?

 

I bet a vague "no illegals" sign is kosher with our new regressive supreme Court

Just now, marioandsonic said:

When was I ever happy?

Children are happy. Because they don't know better

1 minute ago, marioandsonic said:

I'll still vote.  It's just that I have no reason anymore to feel hopeful about pretty much anything for the next 2-3 decades.

Even better: you just know that should any climate change laws be passed in that time frame, they're going to be fine unconstitutional as well. So you will never be happy again.

1 hour ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

Oh cool cops can do "enhanced interrogation" too.

They feared for their lives. 

2 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

They were denied a routine service based on who they were. If the state commission hadn't been so outwardly hostile to the bigot's religious beliefs, the case would have gone in favor of the couple. 

 

So, no, I disagree with your stance. 

Just wait until the case goes back to SCOTUS now. Be prepared for "no homos" signs. 

Every person who voted for Jill stein should kill themselves

1 hour ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

From a marketing perspective, however, I don't think adopting the 'socialist' moniker helps the (American social democratic) Left, or any other group in American politics really.

 

By using the label of 'socialism', they allow their critics to invoke Mao, Stalin, Chavez and Venezuela, etc.  Basically the totalitarianism of the state-run command economy.

 

I think they would be better off selling their program as a more 'humane' form of capitalism, or--better yet--reclaim the term 'Free Market'.  After all, when Adam Smith and the classical economists talked about 'free markets' they meant markets free from the rentier class--markets in which prices would be brought in line with the actual cost of production, rather than artifically inflated by the parasitic, unproductive costs of interest on predatory lending, monopoly rent and land rent.

 

Since the right has largely become the defenders of the rentier class, and perverted the term 'Free Market' to mean a market free for rent extraction and stacked against labor and industry, the (American social democratic) left has room to bring the term back to its original sense and use it as a marketing tool.

Playing no true Scotsman on the  term "free market" doesn't seem like a winner to me. Especially when the prevailing definition of free market is what we have now, and it's a fucking wreck. You'd be fighting an uphill battle from the start.

Stealing@Jason but

And sorry but most third way Democrats are shit. Incremental change is fine, but things are getting to the point in the cost of healthcare, housing, education, the climate and more than incremental change just isn't going to cut it. I don't want a government full of DSA members but we need more of them that's for damn sure. Like our own version of the Canadian NDP

35 minutes ago, johnny said:

This is really going to be tough for the interns 

They can just get more interns at the white House career fair

7 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

This country needs more social insurance. This country doesn’t need any actual socialism. The organization referred to is not just about supporting social democracy. It is a big tent socialist organization that wants popular control of resources and production. This isn’t the Nordic model we are talking about anymore. It is not evidence based policy and would turn us into  a much bigger shithole than we already are. 

90+% of DSA members are talking more along the lines of the Nordic model, greater help for the poor, Medicare for all, and much more highly subsidized higher education. Don't be a pedant

2 hours ago, Jason said:

Bye bye NATO 

 

 

Trump is the reset button on the Western alliance

Dunno about abolish ICE, but when people complain about Obamacare, deductables and out of pocket expenses are the first thing they talk about. Focus on Medicare out of pocket expenses and compare that to what you deal with with your health insurance through work or the exchanges. And keep talking about that.

This country needs a bit more socialism tbh massdriver is wildly out of touch with this country 

56 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

 

Won't that lead to the eventual court packing by a future GOP Senate/President? Where does it stop?

Probably. The ultimate end game of what we currently have for laws (not norms--those are toast) is a supreme Court whose undefined number of members serve for life, and are virtually unaccountable because Congress continues to abdicate it's authority under the Constitution. It's the last refuge of the current Republican party as it is currently structured, as the only real things they can agree on besides triggering libs is appointing someone else to make decisions (judicial nominees) and Trump is good. That's about it really. So I'm actually surprised it hasn't been tried already. The only pushback Trump has gotten has been for ripping families apart. Stacking the court with 45 year old conservative justices would go over smoothly with just about all of those people, and they will have two years after the midterms to change the subject again.

Ideally it would stop with a constitutional amendment spelling out the nomination process in more detail (requiring an up or down vote on presidential nominees within 120 days of nomination, a bit more detail on qualifications, and maybe some other things like a 2/3 affirmative vote to confirm judges and an upper age limit to be on the bench) and also amendments making the legislature more effective, responsive, and representative (significantly more reps and roughly doubling or more the number of senators, no fillibuster, and taking some presidential authority and placing it with Congressional committees) so that the presidency and judiciary isn't as important to make policy decisions, where that should be the job of the legislature. 

I hope the next Democratic president and Senate pack the fucking court

58 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

That tweet is something I've been saying since law school - every "incorrect" supreme court opinion almost universally ignores some clear contextual fact. It's ridiculous. It's "political correctness" at its truest definition. 

Same for the free market types. 

As an example:

"People will pay for products from companies that don't pollute, so pollution limits are not needed!"

"No they won't, as most times companies that do heavy polluting are in another country, or are obfuscated from consumer eyes because there is so much information and disinformation, and what constitutes a harmful amount of pollution is a technical question that requires expertise, an individual consumer cannot determine what is and is not a non polluting company"

"..."

13 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

She might come back tomorrow and cry in front of the press at how she has been treated by other private citizens. Then the NYT and WaPo will write articles about how the left needs to behave itself, and will ignore another news cycle worth of coverage of the continuing child detention camps and attempt at elimination of due process for migrants.

Not just the times and post though 

https://mobile.twitter.com/NancyPelosi/status/1011264189850161152

Employers just can't lie. HR departments are loathe is give out details for fear of a lawsuit, the natural predator of HR departments. That's why most just verify dates of employment and title. They could also ask if that person is eligible for rehire. If no, then the new potential employer could surmise that the applicant isn't a good fit for hire.

This is how professionals behave.

Two party consent is no joke

3 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said:

This isn't a new command, it's a new branch to provide forces to the Combatant Commanders. A branch that only one Combatant Command would have any use for, US Strategic Command since space it's area. Creating an entire branch for one Combatant Command is very stupid, every branch contributes forces to every Combatant Command, wtf are Space Force people going to do at Central Command?

Stare into the vast nothingness of space and contemplate existence

I feel safer already

41 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

No pede how could growth fueled by stock market yields fueled by the tax cut be anything but rock solid? I think rich people like GEOTUS know this shit better than us! 

He's a wealthy white businessman, he's basically infallible