Somebody should tell JD Vance that watermelon jokes are older than political correctness, by about a hundred years.

(they date back to reconstruction when watermelon was one of the first cash crops the former enslaved people were farming)

It’s wrong for some random citizen to torch someone’s democratic agency. That’s what the Electoral College is for.

Nobody wants to covalent anymore.

The person who’s job it is to get Harris elected is optimistic? Would you be surprised if Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles are bullish on Trump’s chances?

What makes you think it’s good for the wealthy? This article is from the WSJ, not the Jacobin.

Spoiler: tariffs are bad for everyone. Regular people won’t feel the pain immediately, but if your the kind of capitalist that imports goods, especially from factories you’ve moved to Asia, the pain starts on day one.

Look at the bright side, implementing Trump’s tariffs would cause two unprecedented events:

1. it’d be a steak through the heart of the neoliberal economic hegemony
2. economists as a group might finally make a prediction that came true.

Just more evidence that the behavior and ideology of religious people doesn’t come out of a book. Protestant Christianity must be the best example of this. What other ideology could account for both liberation theology and prosperity gospel? I’d go further to say that the number of denominations is equal to the number of Protestants.

This is why it’s so foolish for the non-believer to have opinions about how a “true” Christian ought to behave or ought to believe. In order to make that claim you imply:

1. The authors of the Bible had a message
2. That message was accurately recorded
3. That message has been accurately preserved.
4. That message is clear and understandable.

At that point you might as well start confessing your sins because while you might lack belief, you’ve kept the faith.

Who decided that the best use of the Obama’s is to scold black people? Are they going to ask black men to pull up their pants next?

Black Americans are the most reliable Democratic voting block, women and men. And everybody knows it’s more hostage situation than love affair. We get this shit every election cycle, and it’s just as mad as Republicans panicking because evangelical support slipped from 68% to 66%.

John Adams had tracks printed that warned the colonists about the evil British plot to enslave white men.

Violence, fraud, and intimidation around voting was such a threat in early America, some think that it may be responsible for killing Edgar Allen Poe.

Pulitzer and Hersh used their newspapers to push the country into war with Spain, over another conspiracy theory.

This is not new, it’s not even remarkable for it’s stupidity.

To those who say MAGA I ask: when were we great? To those who defend Democracy I ask: when were we a Democracy? (don’t worry, I’m going to vote for the cop over the fascist, I’m just saying).

You know, if people from the UK are going to make fun of southern American vernacular (skeeter), they should know that the dialect originated with antebellum anglophiles imitating the Victorian British.

If your in a position where the life or death terms have to be imposed or impressed on you, then that means you probably belong to one of the privileged classes who are probably going to be fine no matter who wins.

For people in our position, the expectation of empathy can be annoying. Like how I’m annoyed that you are expecting empathy now.

Nihilism (the philosophy) needs a new label. Like “retarded” or “manic depressive”, the common usage has overtaken the academic meaning. I’m not complaining, this is a natural and good process of language. Just saying we need a new term.

Forced labor in prisons is not equivalent to chattel slavery. It’s not even a race-based institution as you suggest since over half of the prisoners are white. (I understand POC are over-represented, I’m just pointing out that chattel slavery was exclusively for black people)

In other words, I’m from corporate and I’m asking you to tell the difference between these two pictures:

Do you hate Foucault because your a Marxist or a Petersonian?

You forgot Foucault’s Power/Knowledge.

YSK: the Dunning-Kruger effect is controversial because it’s part of psychology’s repeatability problem.

Other famous psychology experiments like the ‘Stanford prison experiment’ or the ‘Milgram experiment’ fail to show what you learned in psych101. The prison experiment was so flawed as to be useless, and variations on the Milgram experiment show the opposite effect from the original.

For those familiar with the Milgram experiment: one variation of the study saw the “scientist” running the test replaced with a policeman or a military officer. In these circumstances, almost everybody refused to use high voltage.

Maybe he just knows about the ‘Just so’ fallacy and he’s suspicious of even good-faith science communication being presented as narrative? I know I have that problem sometimes.

This is just another example where Trump doing something hamfisted and clumsy pushes something universal about politics into the arena where the the Left has to pretend this isn’t just how politics works America.

I mean to be outraged about open political corruption implies that altruistic public service is the norm.

Do we think all the other billionaires decided to buy up media outlets and making secret unlimited donations are somehow better because they kept their political agendas on the DL?

And if that doesn’t work, there’s always factor analysis.

Harris lifts up the voice of the anti-Zionists ^{by having them escorted away by security}

I suppose refugees and trans people don’t figure into your equation because erasing them is the only way to make it balance.

It confuses me when people who argue “both sides” claim to support all those left policies when they don’t appear to have empathy or awareness of the marginalized. I’m left to conclude that this brand of leftism must be based on vanity, because the only thing it protects is the ego of those who promote it.