Yeah exactly, there would obviously be no "welcome" for middle ground on RU/UA, idk why people assume the same for I/P except for some vague cargo cult imitation of Richard Holbrooke in Dayton negotiating Bosnia

I'm willing to give the PSL clowns the W on this one but that's a far cry from "nobody is as organized as communists"

Have they gotten anybody elected yet

Yeah this is how I feel about the communists in Kerala who are basically really effective social democrats who like the color red and saying incorrect things about Stalin

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

Yeah so basically the same issue as tech

Axios trying desperately to pander to the kids

I honestly think it's a type of racism to think that it's impossible to compare the experiences of Chinese and American people

Saying "give people money for raising children" reflects different values than "penalize being childless" even if the actual monetary transactions in question are the same

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Yeah because you phrased it in a maximally inflammatory way

I guess I should be happy that he's emphasizing this instead of condemning LGBT equality and advocating against abortion rights, but it's pretty bleak when we need to go to the Pope to find left wing moral guidance.

No heroes here.

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Neither Democrats nor Republicans grasp how needlessly difficult the current legal process is even for the supposedly simplest, uncontested case of spousal immigration.

Once people learn it takes years and thousands of dollars, they're far more open to easing the process.

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Unambiguously one of the greatest Americans to ever live

On that topic, the USA should rename "Reagan" airport to the Jonas Salk International airport

Yeah it's interesting that this intuitively makes sense in English (eg "sitting ducks") in other circumstances

Regardless of the merits of any political views about circumcision, it's extraordinary how basically all critics of the practice act completely nuts.

“The existence of even one ex gay dismantles the central lie of homosexuality, that it is an innate characteristic from birth and therefore should have human rights awarded to it.”

Same shit different era.

Yeah sometimes this kind of rhetoric is literally true and describes what is happening

but one rarely sees "Dems need to condemn our incredibly unpopular alliances with Israel and Saudi Arabia", two countries whose governments are overwhelmingly despised.

Even if Muslims had lost the Dems the election (which they didn't) this kind of loser behavior is so tedious- people need to fight the next war, not the last one! Very peculiar how you see bien pensants write "Dems need to embrace anti choice voters" or "Dems need to abandon trans people" (cont'd)

Poor people in other countries matter too. Every day of our Republican government means more children dying of hunger and disease from the USAID cuts- IDK what can be done to fix this, but seeing this as a trade off is fully justifiable.

The world where queer people get barred from having children is like, at least half of the current world we currently live in and will include the USA if the GOP succeeds at their political program