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So Weinstein might die today or in the very near future. A heart attack apparently. Impressive to have a heart related death when you do not have a heart. On one level he is at last somewhat pitiable though You could argue Weinstein was ahead of his time. Or rather got exposed as a degenerate...

You're not reading the argument. LBJ being corrupt or not wasn't the point. Just that he is not commonly perceived has the posterboy of presidential corruption due to barely being perceived at all.

wait a far right streamer has actually gone and killed someone? That’s wild even for them.

I am not actually because he is not popularly defined as such. It is Nixon who went in the history books as a crook. Ask the common Joe on the street and corruption will not be the first thing on their mind. I doubt the common Joe even has any feelings for better or worse as he is not an iconic...

we have a rare moment of JD Vance being kinda right though not in the way he might like. Recently he said Watergate was not that big and that these days the US has a Watergate every week. He is right that retroactively Watergate really was small potatoes compared to the Trump administration...

Probably because the argument of such ''third way leftists'' is never that they fully agree social democracy should go back to its roots rather than endlessly cover for the mutations of neoliberalism but that they just think the social democrats are a wee bit anti jew, and that they will endorse...

But given he wore his son as a bullet proof vest for a while he does seem to worry about it

They never make clear why money being spend on the citizens is such a horror. For Republicans that makes sense but Democrats should want that rather than get mad about it

To be fair that was rather the norm even under confucian rule. Lots of palace conflicts ended with ''clan extermination to the third degree''

Given its so huge and sources are hard to find I am not as well versed in Chinese history as I would like. A little three kingdoms and Jin here, a little Tang there and some 19-20th century in the corner. Still from my limited knowledge on Confucianism : They often come off as overly moralizing...

Its still so funny Trump ruined the reflection pool. It shows that no issue is small enough for Trump to ruin. It does not matter if its something as giant as geopolitics or as small as a pool, the moment Trump gives it his personal attention its going to face rot and ruin. But it also shows...

Seems people are getting arrested to pretend Trump didn't ruin the reflection pool either through incompetence or corruption https://newrepublic.com/post/212126/arrests-trump-reflecting-pool-renovation-disaster

Indeed because their voters have the memory of a goldfish. After everyone more or less conceded Brexit failed they now want the guy who conned them into voting for Brexit? Its weird that people go ''Okay I know he tricked us into disaster last time but THIS time its gonna be different'' Not at...

If said communists have deep ties with, are financed or are caught with their pants down directly handing information to China then one can certainly consider it trying to impose Chinese influence over America. Especially if said communists also want policies that would cripple the US against...

Funny. Whenever people want to implement policies in America that are commonplace in Europe the American far right, right and even part of the center insists its socialism. But when far right demagogues come in power here we do not consider them overtly different from Trump. Only their own...