Granted Loomis links to a member and not the DSA, but any Democrat is universes better than a Republican. Even if Jones doesn’t support a $15 wage and Medicare-For-All, the only way to get them involves a Democratic Senate. Why sacrifice the goals for purity of politicians?
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A couple posts re-blogging Lawyers, Guns, & Money coming up!
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Oh, poor, put-upon, Dave. Women, of all creatures, judging men. Perhaps, in finding the path to equality, those who have been oppressed have something to teach those of us who have benefited from their oppression. The Vox article he links to is great, too bad he can’t appreciate it.
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I can’t find the permalink to Winer’s post, so here it is in all it’s glory: The new art form, and media critics, women judging the quality of male apologies. Why don’t we all just apologize for existing and be done with it. – Scripting News
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I can’t believe I’ve had to add a “Nazis” tag to my blog. Ugh.
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And on top of that, they don’t have online cancelation! The automated phone system couldn’t find my account since it was too old. I had to be transferred between two (very nice) agents and spend ~10 minutes to actually do it. Goodbye & good riddance @NYTimes.
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So we had the NYTimes’ fawning Nazi article. That inadequate response to the feedback. The absurd number of times they interviewed the other Nazi. Lack of profiles of actually marginalized folk. Lack of anyone to the left of Krugman.
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It is safe to say – and I’m willing to go out on quite a limb here – that a person who straight-up admits that they would rather vote for a serial pedophile than a Democrat is not a person worth talking to, nor one whose opinions will be affected by discourse.” – Gin & Tacos
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“In one particularly egregious example, Mr. Cuomo’s administration forced the M.T.A. to send $5 million to bail out three state-run ski resorts that were struggling after a warm winter.” I don’t know if there’s anything Cuomo could do that would surprise me.
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“They are really good engineers, really indispensable. And then they start to pull 9-5 days.” -Business Insider Back on August 6, Julie Bort wrote an article on software engineers who drop out of the super intense life style while remaining on payroll—resting and vesting. On one hand, this is infuriating: here are people making six or seven figures for barely doing any work. How unfair is that in a world in which many, many people are scrapping by on two or three jobs? Yet, the important part of this article (which Blot doesn’t address) is the completely unhealthy relationship Americans have to work. Blot starts the article with an anecdote about a Facebook engineer deciding to rest and vest after waking up one morning and vomiting over the idea of going to work. And we’re supposed to be critical or envious of this person? For all the backsliding that is happening in this society, unions fought for sane working hours, recognizing that one cannot live one’s life if one is always on the job. Yet today we glorify that life style. How courageous, how admirable is the coder who spends 14 hours a day at work. They are truly the…
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