All Republicans do this. Fascism, communism, socialism, and liberalism are indistinguishable for them

I’m all for socialist policies, but the Biden-Harris administration didn’t kill the expanded child tax credit. Republicans did.

Clinton is not wrong. Only those of us that actually care about politics as a means to do something about social problems care about policy. The overwhelming majority of us those care about politics as a spectacle, a variation of edu-tainment with the social dynamics of team sports. And in that framework, message that distract from the team as us or the opposition as them are of no value.

Every answer so far is wrong.

It can be used for good purposes, though I’m not sure if characterize creating a personalized Jarvis as good per se. But, more broadly, capitalist inventions do not need to be used only by capitalists for capital ends.

There’s a few ways in practice.

1. Court decisions are binding broadly. The conservative capture of the Supreme Court is political genius, honestly. They tend to have the final say regarding policy.

2. Federal agency rules are also broadly binding. EPA rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions, for example, apply everywhere in the country.

3. State legislatures are often less polarized, which facilitates a more productive legislature.

4. State agencies, like a state environmental department, mirrors its federal counterpart but is more localized.

5. Non-state organizations can get things done, though their interests are often limited and not necessarily in the interests of the broad public as state and federal institutions are.

6. International institutions can ‘set the tone’. They may not have any power to actually do anything within a specific jurisdiction, but people within those jurisdictions can draw policy inspiration from international organizations and try for something locally binding.

It’s just a fact of life, ya know.

Oh c’mon! I thought I still had at least a decade

The Federalist is a bottom of the barrel website. They lie and distort everything they talk about.

I think this misunderstands free speech in principle rather than as interpreted by law or colloquially.

Classical liberal philosophers, like Locke, Mill, and Dewey, understood that deliberation required broad perspectives to handle sufficiently. Understanding and solving problems required a debate about their nature and their solutions for society to choose well. Free speech was instrumental in solving problems in principle.

But a modern understanding of it is basically license. It’s like calling freedom both the opportunity to live your life on your terms and shoot black people on your doorstep because you’re afraid of them. And then someone comes along and asks, “Do you think people should the freedom to defend themselves from intruders?”

Free speech, similarly, nowadays is just conflated with pure lies and obfuscation. It’s about creating unreal problems and redirecting social energy into some ineffective bullshit.

Thus, it’s not a contradiction to say that Americans support free speech and that some people need to have their platform taken away. Productive free speech would be improved by a reduction in unproductive and destructive speech done freely.

I use Enhancer For YouTube to remove hide almost everything except the video. I even keep the comments collapsed.

It’s such a nice experience.

He said he didn’t think Trump’s intentions leading up to and on Jan. 6 were criminal.

“I just think he was misguided," Wagner said.

They always give this guy the benefit of the doubt while never giving a democrat the benefit of the doubt.

Hey! Technically, none of my tests ever showed covid either. But I 100% had it because my SO got sick right after me and she tested for it.

Better fuckin defend her. I’ll still vote for Harris, but Lina Khan is the best thing to ever happen to modern governance.

You don’t know my values. Good luck with yours though

Then don’t vote and leave it to the rest of us to maintain your ability to post stupid shit online, legitimate though it may be.

Tim Scott is their DEI bitch, but no one said anything about that.

They’re going to recycle the same bullshit talking points anyway. They don’t need research

Eww. Grow up and love yourself, dude.

It’s hilarious until he wins. Now he can play the sympathy card, his supremely stupid peons will feel even more justified in their stupid ideas, and people who were on the fence, as the pure, unadulterated, grade A morons they are, will think that if a candidate is getting shot at, then he’s obviously doing something right. And of course, they should have compassion for him since he got shot because they otherwise don’t know how diabolical Trump is.

This is a huge loss for the world all because one person had to be exceptionally stupid in their hubris.

I use a computer frequently. So I take the time to learn hot keys and shortcuts. The two minutes it takes to learn them is quickly made up for in productivity.