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temp post: john kasich is an uncivilized and bigoted right-wing extremist that the democrats should not be reaching out to, as a temporary...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/moderate-john-kasich-is-actually-terrifying-226249/

temp post: john kasich is a vicious bigot and a right-wing extremist. i suppose that, as they allowed john kasich to speak at their conven...

i'm actually going to hold off on attacking him on this, a little. his predecessor, stephen harper, was often accused of using this ta...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/11/john-kasich-ohio-moderate-voting-record-republican-president-campaign

or, ask this old guy that you probably don't know anything about.

they voted for trump to stop cruz. he was the lesser evil.

they just let a radical pro-lifer speak at their convention! what is their stance on this?

the reason that trump won is that republicans rejected the kind of hard, hard right extremism being pushed by overbearing conservatives like...

i mean... we forget things easily, don't we? we seem to think everybody was trying to stop trump in 2016. in fact, the data sugges...

i'm neither a democrat nor an american. but, i could not be in a party that gives a platform to somebody like john kasich. i would t...

this person just spoke at the dnc. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/21/ohio-gov-john-kasich-signs-one-nations-most-r...

these people don't have good politics and they should not be welcomed as allies.

i don't want to be on the same side as any of these people, at all. these are a bunch of corporate suits and nazi thugs. if i walked...

when i saw spiral beach a handful of times in the mid 00s in ottawa - at the now defunct zaphod's, at the bluesfest opening for the whit...

they were legit talented. it's a shame. really.

canadian bands that you've never heard of flood? ok, you talked me into it. i saw the ssris (who self-identified as massive cardiacs...

....and the fact that a large percentage of what i listen to is in fact from this country is obscured by the reality that you've never ...

but, i mean, it should be clear that i'm not very interested in mainstream music, or mainstream culture at all. most readers would be ...

this is viewed by many art music critics as one of the or the single greatest record of all time: this was at one point listed as the...

why don't i listen to more canadian music? well, i do listen to a fair amount of canadian music, but it's fairly underground. my f...

i'm here every night... ...until they let me back out to play.

i'm just waiting for biden to claim he really voted against iraq, but the senate got hacked.

we seem to be developing a kind of cultural cop-out in blaming things on hackers, and we should maybe stop to get a handle on it. don'...

of course, i don't know that they're all lying about it. but, i sure do think they all are!

there really seems to be a lot of people that claim that it was "hackers" that signed up, and not them. maybe i should have sign...

but, don't worry, bc and alberta. ontario won't leave you behind. here we come!

what politicians need to do when they hear things from economists is ask a simple question: do you have any actual data? if you're a...

but, i kind of like the irony of the whole thing. if the liberals want to be the new progressives, let's hope the same thing happens t...

economics is at the point of development that physics was at before newton - it's a lot of badly formed ideas, it's full of contradi...

the philips curve is the classic argument against mainstream economics as a science. it came from the right, but the argument isn't ideo...

like, you still hear mainstream economics talk about the phillips curve. this was proven wrong with empirical data almost 50 years ago, an...

mainstream economics is based on assuming various correlations and then projecting those correlations into the future. but, that's not h...

here's a question. is it possible that freeland could go down in history as a bigger loser than kim campbell? and, might the liberals ...

listen. jagmeet... you can win seats if she does this. she will lose a general election. and, you should not wait - because the calculus w...

let's hope she overdoes it and destroys herself, triggering an election that she loses...

i was hoping for pretty much the exact opposite... there's a very good chance that she's going to bring in the kind of crushing, v...

ew. gross. i wouldn't expect much of an improvement - she might actually end up being worse, as she's just about as right-wing as ...

if you don't want to get sick, stay inside. don't try to enforce your authority on me, you fascist pig.

should this be the ndp's new campaign song?

fools. there's an election soon, right?

the government in bc needs to back off and deal with reality, instead of trying to assert delusional fantasies with the threat of violence.

wave it around adrian. just clean up your own mess, when you're done. british columbians don't want to clean up your mess, after y...

adrian's the big man now, apparently, out to enforce his iron will on any who dissent. after all, what's his name? adrian dicks....

adrian.... adrian......! hey, guess what, adrian? fuck off .

i'd like to see stricter penalties for this government, for failing to follow the science and giving into magical thinking, instead. i...

it seems like ms. ardern has been patently wrong for months, herself. she should have let the virus spread, rather than have the masculine...

something that happened in the nineteenth century is that european pseudo-intellectuals went out looking towards the "oriental" wo...

this is probably meant to be buddhist, but is kind of more in the zeno/parmenides space. and, what we know about buddhism today is that it...

i'm still convinced that this is what nozick was actually  talking about.

utilitarian spreader is not a bad term, even if you're referencing nozick more than bentham. i'd actually like to hear bentham...

i actually think this is bowie's best record, by a good margin. 1995. garson/eno/gabrels.

well, ok. maybe, the stoics would accept the change, overall - even if parmenides wouldn't, and zeno would have come to his defense. p...

cynical spreaders . hrmmn. cynicism and stoicism are ideas that i sort of like, and sort of don't. i'll admit to having a te...

well, then. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/12/jamie-lee-curtis-warns-of-trump-fans-stealing-mail/

he's got ballots too, apparently. they're everywhere, donny. everywhere .

this was immediately obvious, as fallout. biden is a known quantity, but harris is largely undefined, and it's going to be very hard f...

and, are they going to run michelle obama? she doesn't have the ambitions that hillary had from day one. like, the punchline was that ...

this is just bizarre and weird. https://www.vox.com/2020/8/17/21373196/john-kasich-dnc-speech-transcript

this is the first part of an apparent three cd set to be released slowly over the next several months. there does seem to be a movement to...

i know the opposition will point to this as evidence that the government is in collapse, but this is reallly a potential first step in salva...

if the government were to base every decision strictly on questions of efficiency, we'd end up in a fascist state very quickly. why bo...

but, at the end of the day? i want politicians to clearly broadcast to me that they're going to spend lots and lots and lots of money,...

they've done studies on the general population and learned that the only people on the entire fucking planet that give a fuck about econ...

"but, rich people will just hide their money" again - the purpose of the government is not to play the role of police officer he...

Raising the corporate income tax rate would reduce economic growth,  no it wouldn't. and lead to a smaller capital stock , ok, but...

and are corporate taxes "bad"? i don't really care about maximizing accumulation. that's not a big part of my calculatio...

"but, we need to demonize rich people to get elected!" well, kyrsten sinema is winning and elizabeth warren isn't, so maybe ...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/randy-wray-taxes-mmt-approach.html

i'll flip that around, though - i would argue that you really shouldn't be paying taxes if you're making less than something lik...

it's the same thing with extending those tax cuts... from a modern monetary theory standpoint, tax revenue doesn't actually matter...

i'll remind you that i was completely cold turkey from mid-2018 to mid-2019. it was ten months.... in those ten months, there was no d...

i really need to get to work...i've been sitting here doing nothing for hours, for days.... i need to get back into a flow, is what i ...

cockburn's a smart analyst, and very knowledgeable about the region. let's hope he's right. somebody has to have the guns; t...

i haven't been reading a lot of counterpunch recently, but keep an eye on this site. i think i said basically exactly this five minute...

like in canada, the whole point of the politics of the left is to try to get the balance of power, so you can influence the sitting governme...

"but it's impure to compromise on your values!" ugh. grow up...

do you think the republicans are going to call the senator that opposes everything they've ever done? will the democrats call mitch mc...

it's a good case study in how stupid the democrats consistently are, and somebody who's smart enough to see it, clearly, and move ar...

and, what about these trump nominees? i'll admit that i wasn't paying particularly close attention to much of the process around n...

On 1 May 2018 the IAEA reiterated its 2015 report, saying it had found no credible evidence of nuclear weapons activity in Iran after 2009. ...

would i have voted against the iran deal? i wouldn't have voted  for  it. it was essentially a face-saving mechanism for obama, to hid...

interestingly, sinema is the youngest democrat in the senate, and won a seat that hasn't been won by democrats in decades. i've wa...

if i was her, i'd take the kids out of the country and claim refugee status somewhere. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecula...

we have failed, as a species, to reverse climate change. while carbon reduction should still be on the table, now we will need to find a w...

i certainly would have looked at that bill and said "this is bullshit, i can't vote for this". whether the next step is push...

how would i have reacted to the stupid fake "green new deal" vote? i remember this coming up and scratching my head. sinema vote...

do i agree with kyrsten sinema on the issues? i live very far away, but she's been around for a while, and she seems kind of refreshin...

it could very well be the case that whomever wins arizona & wisconsin, together, wins the presidency in 2024, too.

i think that the only other open atheist in the senate is kyrsten sinema, right? all girl, all atheist ticket in 2024? https://friendlya...

i'd suspect that chances are that if i ever ended up in the surreal and unlikely position of raising a religious child to adulthood, the...

and, would i disown a child for being religious? yes. in the end, when they're old enough to fend for themselves. there would just...

do i think that a potential partner would be a little more willing to take the kid to church on request? what would i think about that? fr...

in the end, if your child decides to pick religion over atheism, then you might have to let them go. that's life.

ultimately, i think that if my kids decided that they wanted to go to church, i would take that as a kind of a red flag that i'm doing s...

so, what do you do, then, if your six year old kid comes to you and tells you they want to go to church? i'd have a talk with them abo...

"don't you fucking tell me how to raise my kid". fuck you. i'm going to stand up for your kids' rights, not your a...

this person knows the truth. https://forbiddencomma.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/aristotle-wrong-about-everything/

unfortunately, the main critic of the socratic idea of abolishing heteropatriarchy was aristotle, who was pretty much wrong about everything...

it's this old platonic position to support the abolition of the family, although it's intricately tied into feminism as well, in it...

i have absolutely no patience for adults that think they have the right to tell children how or what to think. that's a crime; charge ...

i would like to see stronger law enforcement around the issue, and more parents charged with child abuse for enforcing their views on their ...

see, this is a travesty, but it indicates the difficulties in fully eradicating religion. this person's parents did everything right i...

yeah, before the shit hit the fan, they were talking about the centrepiece of the budget being environmentally focused. you can imagine i...

South Korea counted its fourth straight day of triple-digit increases in new coronavirus cases Monday as the government urged people to stay...

it was the absolute first thing that crossed my mind, back in...it was june. wow. "this is just like dubya with the mission accomplis...

hey, i've been waiting to post that for weeks. feels good to do it :).

this was 2003. this was 2020.

they should have the elections in new zealand immediately, if only to make jacinda ardern look like the buffoon she truly is. fools. it...

that's absurd. you can send your kids to school, or you can home school them yourselves. the government has no legal obligation to pro...

they stopped broadcasting again, and my guess is that they're trying to censor the following paragraph: while i won't condemn the ...

i'm wide awake, which is good, and i need to get the humidity in here up to flush out some of the smell until it comes up enough outside...

i don't  want to spend the next 100 years fending off muslim attacks on basic human rights. it's not the future i have in mind...

i mean, we'll beat them. islam will be defeated - i'm confident of that. but, do we have to? really? in the 21st century?

we won the fight against christianity. we defeated them. we won. it's over... i don't want to retrace history, i don't w...

is secularizing muslims a type of colonialism? no, it's a backwards argument, because islam is a system of colonialism and dominance, ...

so, have i actually been sitting here for hours and ranting about nothing? i spent another day cleaning, trying to get my head around what...

freedom of association means the freedom to leave a group, too. we don't seem to put enough importance on that.

it will be a wonderful day when i open my apartment window and look outside and see a mix of men and women enjoying a few beers in lawn chai...

and, you can cram your bourgeois liberal nonsense about "religious freedom" up your ass.

what i want, and what all free-thinking people should want, and what left-leaning political movements should be striving for, is finding way...

apostasy for all. that's where i am, and i'm happy to tell it straight to your gaping jaw.

so, it's less that i want to round the muslims up and kick them out, and more that i want to support strategies to secularize them and t...

the biggest critique i have of multiculturalism in how it's practiced is that it tends to correlate religion with ethnicity. when i talk...

i'm  not really opposed to multiculturalism, although i'd rather embrace a concept of post -culturalism. but, muslims sure are opp...

the difference between you and i is that i'm clear-eyed and clear-headed enough to identify who my enemies are, and you're not - you...

and, yes. fear is the right word. hitchens got that point right. sometimes, fear is justified - and you'd simply be daft to ignore...

and, frankly, if you think you're going to save science by invoking christianity, you need to give your head a pretty serious shake. f...

so, no - i'm not going to set christianity against islam and take a side. gross. rather, i'm going to set christianity equal to is...

moderate muslims and moderate christians are essentially indistinguishable from each other. so, if i'm violently opposed to moderate chr...

you can put a hijab on a pig, but it's still a pig.

yeah, so when i talk about the ongoing collapse of western society into a dark age, i don't know how anybody could interpret that as an ...

what do indigenous spaniards look like anyways? history is full of a lot of biases; arab sources push the primacy of arabs in the region, ...

i once heard chomsky describe angela davis as "reasonable", and she subsequently avoided much of the criticism he'd level at a...

this is your face of colonialsm. deal with it.

christopher columbus was brown.

we need to start thinking about the christianization of europe as the unwanted, violent colonization of an indigenous people by a foreign cu...

it is even actually more true to say that greek philosophy forms a basis for christian thinking than to suggest that christianity is in some...

there really is no other candidate for an actual christian emperor in europe, besides charlemagne. and, jesus never said to conquer in his...

in a real and meaningful sense, what conservatives like o'reilly and peterson (and i guess fake nazis like spencer) are doing when they ...

it existed. we fought hard against it, and we won. but it was a couple of centuries at most, and it's legacy was not at all enduring...

(note: this entry seems altered, and my memory is only able to reconstruct my initial thoughts partially. i can't prove it, but key sect...