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1. 12 months ago on Ted Rall

   Ted, you should pick a platform that doesn’t deplatform comments it disapproves of for pecksnifferian preciousness. How did we get to the current nadir in politics and culture? Everyone was too delicate.

   It’s been fun.

2. about 1 year ago on Ted Rall

   All I’m saying is that everyone’s doing the whole flag-on-social-media thing. I don’t see millions of Europe’s young men and women volunteering to go and fight for Ukraine. Everyone simply wants this to go away. And if Russia conquers Ukraine or Russia is driven off, both outcomes are “it went away.”

3. about 1 year ago on Ted Rall

   The idiot Jim Cramer pointed out once that the lifespan on a stupid action by a corporation is about 18 months. Burger Joint A gets caught selling rat meat? In 18 months, no one will remember.

   Putin understands that even if he lines up every Ukrainian manjack and cuts off their enormous schwanstuckers, in 18 months, no one in Europe, turning the water to really, really hot, will remember or even care. Just so long as their personal comfort isn’t interrupted.

4. about 1 year ago on Ted Rall

   Well … if Chewbacca lives on Endor …

5. over 1 year ago on Ted Rall

   But there’s a problem there, Ted. The idea — the rational, coherent, sane idea — that What Is Essential Must Be Regulated covers a surprisingly large ambit. From a purely survivalist sense, the Essential is Food and Shelter. A little more nuance, and now you’ve got Roads, Libraries, Post Offices, the Internet, a Good Cup of Coffee, etc. The truth our system won’t touch? A lot of things that “individualists” cling to? They suck at doing as individuals. We, absolutely, shouldn’t have for-profit organizations running the Internet, daycare centers, hospitals, and so on. And we all know what that is. Filthy, filthy, democratic socialism. Sure, you can have affordable healthcare, but think of the starving CEOs. Won’t SOMEONE think of the CEOs?

6. over 1 year ago on Ted Rall

   DASch, a great point. But it’s something ALL the people in charge already know: there’s no way to give everyone in the global south anything even remotely like the American lifestyle. How many of the “emerging” countries in the 1960s actually did so? There isn’t enough “stuff” to go around.

7. over 1 year ago on Ted Rall

   Stopping the burning of carbon leads to massive numbers of human deaths? That’s kind of the point. We have too many people on this planet. Perhaps we should have let COVID run wild. Perhaps we should simply stop anything beyond basic-level intervention until the population stabilizes at 2 billion. The greenhouse gases are killing the whole planet. We should let the population adjust back down. For you, for me, for everyone.

8. over 1 year ago on Ted Rall

   They’ve stopped the extremists? So stagnant wages is my imagination? The disappearance of Roe v. Wade is a success? All the homeless people who can’t get access to sufficient food, shelter and mental counseling in this, the bestest, richest, numberone-est country ever in the whole wide universe? I realize our gun laws are totally controlled by the moderates, as are college tuition fees and the Pentagon budget …

9. over 1 year ago on Ted Rall

   The notion that the democrats will stop the Republicans from … well, from anything is the wildest sort of optimism. Ted Bundy on his way to the electric chair hoping for a power failure was less of an optimist. The democrats are so hopelessly centrist that anything they negotiate for, ab initio, is a concession to the Republicans. And the idea that our two major parties have “competition” from any of the smaller is risible in the extreme.