I don’t know why you’re you were being downvoted, you’re absolutely right.

I think you just answered your own question. :)

Cities hosting the WC almost never recoup their investments. Sure, it’s a windfall for a select few, but it is a bad investment for everyone else.

It gets a bit more complicated when that four year old is a member of tren de agagua.

That’s the only reason I’ve ever done much of anything in shell script. As a network administrator I’ve worked many network appliances running on some flavor of Unix and the one language I can count on to be always available is bash. It has been well worth knowing for just that reason.

I don’t really disagree except that I think it’s a mix of not wanting to appear biased and actually being biased. The mainstream media establishment actually views left wing “extremists” as more threatening than right wing extremists. The right doesn’t challenge power, and the left does.

I am so fucking sick of media’s knee jerk reaction to both-sides this shit. It’s all right wing reactionaries, be they Muslim, Christian, Atheist, or other. The problem is right wing extremism, not political polarization.

Trump has never really been one of “their own”. They see him like Jed Clampett. He has some degree of wealth, but the elites can’t stand him. Of course that doesn’t keep them from kissing his ass as president.

It’s not their fault they keep loosing, it’s the voters who are too dumb to understand that Democrats are marginally better than fascists. /s

We can absolutely afford to shore up the SS and Medicare trust funds. We just don’t. American oligarchs just prefer that workers are dependent on jobs until they fall over and die. Just raise the cap, and it’s fixed.

Bring back? It never went away. The 13th amendment still explicitly allows slavery of prisoners, and that has been exploited to the fullest.

Yep

Countries have no right to exist. They exist because they can. An apartheid ethnostate certainly has no right to exist or right to our support. If Israel has a right to exist, what about Palestine?

That’s sure not what she’s running on.

There is no candidate who can win this race that won’t keep writing blank checks for Israel. If anything, Netanyahu wants Trump to win. He is enraged by even the minimal pushback he gets from the Biden administration.

I’m amazed that anyone is still buying the “moderate voters” bullshit. Just try to picture an actual human being who’s politics have left them scratching their heads between Harris and Trump. “If only Harris would do a little more for corporations. Oh well, I guess I’ll stick with the racist orange insurrectionist.”

It’s not about moderate voters. If anything it’s about the median voter, but that’s a very different animal. The median voter in this country is wacky as fuck with political opinions that are all over the place. The one thing they almost all have in common is that they hate establishment politicians from both parties. Harris is trying to get their votes by being even more establishment, and it’s going to be a disaster.

The one hope we have is the end of RvW. If that’s woken up enough women voters, then we still can win. Republicans may have screwed themselves so badly that even establishment Democrats can beat them. Let’s hope.

Do you think Harris is running a flawless campaign?

If Kamala loses it will be her fault. The fact that we’ll all suffer for it is beside the point. You might think it’s irrelevant, but establishment Dems lose over and over again by ignoring what the left tells them, then they turn around and blame the left. Continuing to indulge their delusions just leads to more losses.

This really isn’t about Trump anymore. The Republican party has been transformed, and every single Republican candidate for the foreseeable future is going to be just as much a threat to democracy as Trump, if not more so.

The Greens hurt Democrats far less than the libertarians hurt Republicans, and neither is going anywhere. Democrats need to focus on being better candidates, not finding someone else to blame.

But there is such a thing as a non-corporate Democrat. Unfortunately, they are few and far between. There are also some wealthy Democratic donors that are less than 100% shitbags, resulting in some legitimate progressive policy.

I’m not being smart or funny, but apparently I’m getting under your skin.

Say what you will about socialist beliefs, they are absolutely more nuanced, historically rooted, and varied than what you call libertarian. You also don’t see super wealthy corporate oligarchs as thought leaders on the left. Your Ayn Rand inspired cult was entirely assembled by oligarch sponsored anarcho-capitalist think tanks.

I haven’t argued for socialism of any kind here, and I won’t. You have probably heard most of the reasons why your opinions on socialism are nonsense, and you have probably not really heard any of them. I’m not wasting my time on that.

You guys all spout the same platitudes constantly and ignore every reality based argument. It’s not exactly opaque (or interesting).