I could definitely believe that, yeah

Exactly.

Also, they really need to work better on crafting their messaging. "Against the Constitution" makes you sound like you're staging a coup. "We need a Constitution 2.0" appeals to Americans' enthusiasm for novelty and innovation

Feel like democratic socialists need to get back to that constitutional agitation thing that they were doing from 2017 to 2019 which demands to abolish the electoral college, abolish the senate, and so on. Aziz Rana's scholarship on this country's legal mechanisms should be required reading.

Thank you! I'm quite proud of that one

I do love that it's looking like queer love and self-acceptance will save the world

My mind is struggling to wrap itself around the nexus of marginalization and privilege required to give rise to such a person.

You have to understand, Raichik doesn't really think about those things--or much of anything at all, really. Rather, she just drifts through life, flitting from outrage to outrage, like a boddhisatva of incompetence.

Actually, depending on which company fails first, there may not be a bailout coming this time--OpenMind has said they're basically going to need an infusion of *half a trillion dollars* to keep going, and that would be year after year until they somehow figure out how to be profitable.

I dunno man, I think you're giving Disney too much credit.

Yeah, I'm currently waiting for Will and Robin to come out to each other so we get some nice wlw/mlm solidarity

I'm fairly certain they do not, in fact, focus-test-group sporting events, or otherwise the structure of most sports would be very, very different.

You're entirely correct, but laying off workers--especially right before an annual report to your shareholders--makes your quarterly earnings look *really* good, which is all these fools actually care about. Ed Zitron calls it the 'rot economy'

Yeah, I'm figuring it's at least worth making a doctor's appointment if it doesn't go away within a week or so.

(Hell of a time for my postdoc to end, and with it, my health insurance, though)

It's weird, because what he's suggesting is basically social democracy (if not out-and-out socialism), but since it's Altman, there's no way he actually means that and not, as you point out, feudalism.