Yeah, I'd be a lot more concerned about NSA backdoors. The Chinese government is much less likely to have a beef with me.

I think the assertion is that Trump isn't involved in anything important. They leave that to the grown-ups.

Stupid is relative. In many cases, elected officials could be replaced by a random number generator with better results, because random noise is less harmful than active corruption or relentless pursuit of a ridiculous ideological agenda.

Why is foreigner money used deceptively different substantially different than American money used deceptively?

Domestic oligarchs are no less of a threat to our democracy, and that's where you get the real resistance, because it's a distinction without a difference.

Yeah, we know how effective it can be. Clinton was around the margin of error against Trump before anything major that could be considered Russian interference, and the final elections were within the margin of error. If these methods are effective, they are only effective when the rest of the system is already shitting the bed.

A company that's been fucking the people for decades, and whose business is 100% dependent upon eminent domain doesn't get to bitch about not getting contracts.

Maybe because NOBODY who doesn't suck dicks for ISPs is against net neutrality. The other ACs wonky explanation is unnecessary. Trump didn't win, Clinton lost. And that's pretty much par for the course for the GOP's victory. Nobody likes anything they do, the Dems are just fucking morons about politics. They keep trying to play nice with the GOP, which only turns off their base and lets the GOP tout how they "whupped those damned liberuls." Nobody likes them or any of their policies, they just hate a handful of elite liberals more.

If a meteor wiped out the majority of the Dems, and they had to be replaced with regular schmucks instead of idiots who spend their lives talking to rich donors, they'd be significantly to the left of the current Democratic party, and they'd dominate the whole fucking country. Because the GOP doesn't win, the Dems lose.

What the fuck are you talking about? "completely uncontroversial business regulations" is not the hill to die on over government overreach when direct murder and theft by agents of the state is common, and all of our communications are intercepted by power-hungry spies. Oh, and those same ISPs are bending over backwards to cooperate with them.

Ideally, violence shouldn't be used, but keeping it on the table is an important way to balance power.

Humans are still just as much not bulletproof as they were in 1776.

You say that like it wouldn't be a godsend. If I could kick those assholes out of my state and let muni broadband take over, I could have more for less, and maybe some half-decent support.

Yeah, I'd count Texans under assholes, and a lot of the people concerned about borders act a lot like terrorists.

Why? It's not a hoax. It is happening and it's natural. The level of AGW is the issue and whether or not we need to tax gas at $200+/gallon (per the IPCC).

Because my point was that even if burning oil has NO environmental harms, my follow up argument says that we should act in the exact same way for other reasons.

Nice condescending statement that indicates what an asshole you are.

You're no fun. I am playfully reversing the reality for comical effect. The reality I speak of is that economies based on extracting natural resources are usually grossly undemocratic because the value is in the resources instead of the labor, leading to them to be authoritarians, which are universally assholes.

Now, the people who oppose efforts to burn oil will blame anything on God's will, but they don't seem to put together the above correlation between assholes and oil as part of a divine plan, even though there's more evidence of that than anything they believe.

So, regardless of whether or not there are environmental concerns with burning oil, it's in the interests of people who don't like tyranny and terrorism to destroy the global market for fossil fuels.

No, because they generally use solid metrics. But let's say that climate change is indeed a hoax. God clearly doesn't want us to burn oil, or he wouldn't have buried it almost entirely under assholes and terrorists.

Again, the last time would be 2008, when the global economy crashed, but if you think Reagan was a good president, you're too damn stupid to continue talking to.