No, that’s a church in every sense of the word. That is a normal thing for Christian Churches to do.

I’ve met white supremacists who gatekeep whiteness to such a degree that there is no tolerance; you have to be literally 100% a specific type of white. Which is nonsense, but they believe it nonetheless.

Every Republican candidate in your lifetime (and tbf many Democrats) did end democracy. It wasn’t any single particular instant, but at this point we’ve been living under oligarchy for over a decade.

You’re right in general, but those screaming Dems were right too.

If you’re saying that you own the means of your production while working under an employer, then we might have different definitions of these words.

Screwdrivers are a trivial component in the “barrier to entry” to starting a business. Those extra bucks to you can be a very significant “surplus value” for most employees.

Lawyers, accountants, and electricians are often self-employed, which is unusual for the service sector. It’s more common to be a mechanic being exploited by Jiffy-Lube. Even doctors are starting to not own their own practices more frequently.

If unionization didn’t work, then every employer would be fine with them.

If we think the comic is being vague, then maybe a better specific example would be nuclear power?

You know whose fault this is? Trump’s.

There’s a million liberals and leftists who made mistakes. But ultimately, Trump and his supporters are adults and they are the ones most to blame for what they’ve done. Not liking Hillary didn’t force anybody to vote for Trump; that was a choice they made.

The notion that we can simply go test new ideas in a new country seems to be largely promoted by neoliberals, because it implies that liberalism is popular.

I sincerely wish we could have more tests like the Free State Project - now they just want to impose it on everyone.

Which harmless opposing view got Trump banned?

Let’s start with the Taft-Hartley Act, then move on to private property privileges, and then pause to assess.

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If we nominate Bernie it’s not to win you over. It would win over leftists who otherwise wouldn’t vote Democrat.

No offense but I don’t actually believe that you are on the fence about whether or not you’ll vote for Trump.

And fortunately, nobody cares.

FWIW I’ve been that sick

Sounds good to me, I’ve never gotten in trouble for indirectreportination.

This seems consistent, not hypocritical. If someone supports financing Ukraine, then one should want Ukraine to have enough money for recruiting. Conscription is like an inefficient and regressive tax.

I think he was just sick on an unlucky day.

Could be cognitive decline. Judges are supposed to hold their cards close to their chest.

Did anyone ever try “I was given drugs without my knowledge”? That’s happened to me.