Recent content by akillesheel

it frustrates me because you could argue that "democracy" as it is currently imagined in the United States does have some real issues - namely, that loud pluralities or minorities can be completely ignored. rather than the productive dialectics imagined, in some form or other, by most of the...

this addendum to one of my favorite series on Youtube, I think, does a good job of tackling this question.

i've said it before and i'll say it again, a family that doesn't welcome outsiders into the fold is going to die out from incest. it's downright stunning to me that Davis didn't make any changes to the staff at all.

the appeal to tradition just does not work here, as has been shown again and again in this thread. "fairness" is a concept that is malleable to the point of meaninglessness all the research has shown that there's no increased risk of injury, nor increased severity of injury, with trans women...

by this token, simply winning at sports is negatively impacting others. one's rights end where another's rights begin, not their comfort.

the problem is that everything that they've ever published that might be worth caring about is behind one of the hardest paywalls i've seen, and nobody i know of pays for them. that just leaves their social media and free tools to judge them by, rather than their journalistic and/or analytical...

doubt it's going to be controversial here to say that IC has folks that do really good journalistic work, from the recruiting side with Rell and Don to the "inside the program" stuff with Ben and Greg - to say nothing of the talent they've had pass through for baseball work. unfortunately...

kids are going to experience things that their parents don't want them to every day, every generation, for the rest of humanity. you learned and did things your parents didn't want you to, your children have learned and done things you didn't want them to, and so on and so forth. it's just part...

i'm sure you'd love for your daughter to be rooming with 20-year old versions of these people

kids being allowed to be ignorant is arguably why we're here in the first place, no? the canard of "parents' rights" needs to be nipped in the bud and hard. education is a public good.

or, y'know, at opting out of having black/non-white students in the classroom?

i think this is basically the only valid take on the situation. far from being made great, everything about the US worth being proud of has been or is being destroyed.

it's at least as likely that Harris lost due to attack ads about trans people as it is that she lost because her campaign gave up on the "weird" attack and the energy she was generating around change from the status quo in favor of hammering toughness on the border and palling around with Liz...

they can win nationally by doing what Zohran did and will now have to do going into the NYC general - expanding and energizing the Dem voter base with a strong, worker-forward, populist campaign, and then forcing the "Blue No Matter Who" crowd to put their money where their mouth has been and...

honestly, color me unconvinced that Dems in NYC are significantly farther to the left than Dems anywhere else. There are more of them than in other places, sure, but that doesn't say anything about that population's place within the left wing. I think Zohran has shown that he could win a...