I suspect a lot of this is people sloppily tapping something out on their BlackBerry/iPhone, but the point does still stand.

Goes on to say that well fitted suits are "for cucks" and that "your pants are supposed to ride halfway up your calves when you sit down, that's just normal."

Whoa, whoa, whoa, gay subtext? In a play? This is the first I'm hearing of such a thing.

It's not pessimism to recognize a pattern of behavior

I'll actually make the argument that just packing a pedophile off to go prey on someone else's community isn't particularly humane either

Holy fuck, I finally actually read a few of them and I know understand why the ruling class thinks a chat bot that will write a coherent and comprehensible email for you is a technology worth investing half the economy in.

It was for a very long time and many a creative industry existed at least partially to source girls for this purpose: the theater and dance in the 19th century, modeling, movies, and music in the 20th century. A lot of that continues up to today, but it's starting to change and it's making them mad.

Or gleefully embraced both.

Brilliant observations from the man whose high IQ ass crashed the US economy twice.

Ah, but rich people with parlors absolutely love to be shown tricks in them

There was: coordinating smear and harassment campaigns against Palestinians.

It's the model of business that most capitalists lyingly pretend is synonymous with free enterprise itself. They briefly believed when the legal and regulatory environment forced them to behave like it, but now they just hide behind it as they ruthlessly strip mine their customers for every cent.

God, these tedious "duh, what can they do they don't have the votes" takes that pass for analysis are so annoying. They treat politics like it's a simple numbers game, not what it actually is: a highly complex and contingent game of persuasion, pressure, and rhetoric.

Well, he was given his chance to do that this week and decided "no, my way is better"

They find it confusing because it's designed to be confusing and the people that provide it make little effort to explain it.

Why does she need to be president? She's on the glide path to being the new Nancy Pelosi at this point and I've not yet seen compelling evidence that she'd be better and more effective as president than as Speaker of the House.

Don't be naive.

Can and do