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« Liberal Outrage: June 2017 | Main | Liberal Outrage: August 2017 » Liberal OutrageI give up Politics is bad enough, but when some female Marvel employees post a picture of themselves drinking milkshakes and the Men's Rights nitwits freak out and start ranting about SJWs, it's time to give up on the human race. By fnord12 | July 31, 2017, 12:13 PM | Comics
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& Liberal Outrage | Link This is indeed bonkers. By fnord12 | July 29, 2017, 9:11 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link This has seemed obvious but it's good to see it spelled out and quantified. We need a major infrastructure spending stimulus bill. Bernie, Hillary, and Trump all campaigned on one, to various degrees. Hillary's was too small, Trump's relied on private corporations too much, and Bernie's was, ofc, just right (honestly, his could have been bigger too). But at this point anything would help. By fnord12 | July 27, 2017, 2:11 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Scientists: 21 N.J. towns to face chronic flooding by 2035. By fnord12 | July 23, 2017, 11:51 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link Between the Thomas Frank editorial Min linked to below and this one by Steven Thrasher, the Guardian is on fire. By fnord12 | July 22, 2017, 11:52 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link I haven't been able to read most of it for the last year because it's turned into the "All Trump, All the Time" outlet. Thomas Frank on how the media continues to fail: I believe that the news media needs to win its war with Trump, and urgently so. But as long as they understand that war as a crusade to reestablish the old rules of legitimacy, they are going to continue to fail. Until the day they get it right, the world will burn while the in-crowd parties obliviously on. I'm not holding my breath for the media to eventually "get it". What's worse is the people who still rely on them for information. Ugh. By min | July 21, 2017, 11:42 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Some nice background from Matt Taibbi. Of course, no amount of rational context is going to defeat this level of ignorance from MSNBC hosts: By fnord12 | July 21, 2017, 11:35 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link Kamala Harris seems to be the 2020 candidate that the rich Clinton backers are getting behind. So here is some background on her: As California Attorney General, she was the champion of an extremely punitive truancy law (which mostly affects black and Latino youths). She supported the death penalty. She laughed at marijuana legalization. She supported using prisoners as slave labor. And yet she was not-so-tough on crime when it came to corporate criminals like Steven Mnuchin, now Trump's Treasury Secretary. As a Senator, she's offered tepid, caveat-laden support for Single Payer ("as a concept, I'm completely in support of single payer, but we've got to work out the details, and the details matter on that."). She mainly seems to have come to prominence for her performance in the Russian Show Trials. By fnord12 | July 19, 2017, 3:28 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Whatever you think of BDS, a bill criminalizing it, with a minimum civil penalty of $250,000, and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison, seems insane. Even more insane is that a lot of Democratic sponsors (not just supporters, mind you, but sponsors) of the bill don't even seem to know what is in it. By fnord12 | July 19, 2017, 3:21 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Atlantic City meets climate change. By fnord12 | July 19, 2017, 3:19 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link I've been saying this since Al Gore's movie ended with telling us to change our lightbulbs. By fnord12 | July 17, 2017, 11:56 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link Maybe this is the pressure point we needed: either let us regulate the fuck out of these 100 companies or you all have to go vegetarian. By fnord12 | July 13, 2017, 9:13 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link Once again, Democratic discipline broke down. The amendment this time was beaten in committee, 13-10. Two Democrats, Patty Murray and Michael Bennet, both of whom accept a lot of pharmaceutical money, voted no. Interestingly, two Republicans from states bordering Canada who voted for almost exactly the same measure earlier in the year - Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine - now voted no as well. This often seems to happen with controversial bills. The math will allow a large-ish number of members to cast a vote in favor of a popular policy disliked by industry, but if there's any danger of it actually passing, there will suddenly be defectors or converts. The political damage is limited to just a few poor souls who have to wear the unpopular vote. This is why you should never trust a politician like Cory Booker who tells you that he supports your issue but couldn't vote for this particular version of it because of some minor (bullshit) flaw. By fnord12 | July 12, 2017, 7:45 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Conservatives: Solar power will never work. Also Conservatives: Solar power is working too well. The linked article is also a good example of why the press sucks. There is absolutely no reason to print the baldfaced bullshit from the utility lobbyists with a straight face. "Unfair to homeowners who do not want or cannot afford their own solar installations" made me snort so hard i nearly lost a nostril. By fnord12 | July 10, 2017, 8:44 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link The good: "New Jersey is at the top of the list for having achieved the greatest reduction in our prison population in the country -- a 35 percent decline since 1999." The bad: "New Jersey has the worst racial disparities within our prison population in the country. " Link. By fnord12 | July 8, 2017, 12:10 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Vox was Centrist Central during the primary, so it's interesting to see them increasingly put out pieces like this. By fnord12 | July 7, 2017, 4:18 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link Dovetailing with Ryan Cooper's article below, Jeff Spross has 4 dumb ideas that the Dems should avoid. By fnord12 | July 6, 2017, 10:41 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link Odious loser and failed Hillary Clinton campaign strategist, Mark Penn: By fnord12 | July 6, 2017, 10:28 AM | Liberal Outrage | Link By fnord12 | July 5, 2017, 12:20 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link By fnord12 | July 5, 2017, 12:10 PM | Liberal Outrage | Link « Liberal Outrage: June 2017 | Main | Liberal Outrage: August 2017 » |
