There is a subset of people on here who have convinced themselves that there is no legitimate basis for being frustrated with Schumer because the people they hate in their phone were frustrated with him first. That is a bad way to interact with politics.

Taiping Rebels describing the Qing

Rahm is going to find a way to be really annoying at the first debate, he'll end up getting dunked on by some other candidate polling at 2%, and then we will never hear from him again

I'm hung up on the implication that learning cursive as a kid = good handwriting

My chicken scratch disagrees!

You're a rent seeker It's an economist insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now.

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

Feels like in the long term these centrist coalitions are pretty bad at blocking the rise of more radical parties and end up just get squeezed on both sides by said more radical parties within an election or two

Pre-ACA, the health insurance system didn't do a bad job; private health insurance did a very good job at something most people think is deeply unfair. Once you remove what is normally the main social benefit of private insurance --pricing risk to make things die-- you are left with health insurance companies with only three other functions: spreading risk, negotiating with providers, and customer service. The problem is, the industry is terrible at two of these. Private health insurance companies openly admit they can't effectively spread risk on their own since some individuals have very high cost health care problems, and these individuals can no longer be priced out. The private health insurance lobby (AHIP) has actively been calling for the government to recreate a government reinsurance program -- government insurance for the insurers that spreads the risk for them. The private health insurance lobby also admits they are terrible at negotiating with hospital and drug makers. For most procedures, they have negotiated rates much higher than what the government did for Medicare. We now have a weird health insurance system where the private insurance companies can't do their main job because we consider it immoral, they are asking the government to step in to perform their second most important function for them, and they admit they are really bad at their third most important job.

Reminds me of this classic post from @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social . We regulated away the one thing insurance was good at because it was immoral, and left it with all the things the government is simply better at.
www.pendinghorizon.com/2017/09/priv...

Would really just be Wisconsin returning to it's roots

The discourse generated by a DSA member becoming WI governor would be extrodinary

Not sure I believe a poll with Barnes behind but would be very funny

"Cutting the income tax will help Californians not need social services"

Does Katie Porter know how governments pay for social programs

Anyone who can be successfully convinced that "functionally abolish the income tax" is a progressive position simply cannot be trusted with executive power.

Worrying that even ostensibly liberal politicians have bought into the Reaganite idea that the government is fundementally incapable of doing big things and that it's better to just give tax money back to the people

Any Democrat who supports this should unceremoniusly thrown into the Potomac

Supporting this is an admission you don't actually believe in a welfare state which should be disqualifying as a Democrat.

Stop with the stupid tax cuts (no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on $75,000) and actually make the government do something

hands off my misinformation and society destruction machine

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

I cannot understand how someone who has literally written books can think that it doesn't matter whether something was written by a human with intention or if was a composite of a bunch of works that were stolen by an AI.

Just a fundementally anti-human mindset

Politics-as-fandom leads people to some very strange conclusions when the subject of the fandom isn't very good at politics

Mods are just DLCs that aren't being appropiately monetized

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

Clearly body cameras will fix this, because ICE has shown itself to be well-behaved when on camera

Schumer needs to go so bad

The man just sucks the momentum out of anything and replaces it with the most spineless risk adverse politics you can imagine

We need a wealth tax so no one can accumulate enough wealth to join an international pedo cabal

Cops are generally bad but ICE thugs don't even pretend to do things within the confines of the law. Just a completely different scale of problem

Why is Dem leadership not on the ground in MN? If the answer is “polls show Trump’s disapproval is only -15 on deportations, but -25 on prices,” thats a Bad Use Of Polling and a complete failure in their capacity as leaders to lead public opinion and fight for democracy and the rule of law

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!"

The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

This isn't a great analogy because overtourism of natural spaces is an actual problem that can damage the environments people want to visit, whereas building more housing in an area is just straightforwardly good.