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The Democrats hysterical warnings about Russians under our beds, and Donald Trump's weird connection with poor, working class whites, are equally bizarre as long as you are using the archaic and obsolete left-right paradigm of democracy that we've...
by gjohnsit
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on Fri Dec 23, 2016 at 09:04 AM PST
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Every single news media outlet reported last week's massacre in Paris as the "worst in France since WWII". The meme was universal.
Mainstream newspapers, such as Le Figaro in France, the
by gjohnsit
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on Tue Nov 17, 2015 at 03:46 PM PST
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Every once in a while someone says something so incisive that it causes you to look at an issue in an entirely different way.
Rev. Jesse Jackson managed to do that earlier this week. Police kill ...
by gjohnsit
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on Fri Aug 14, 2015 at 08:37 AM PDT
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"Bandit" is a very interesting term. It implies that we aren't actually fighting a war against a legitimate military foe, but are instead just hunting a group of outlaws. Thus the rules of war don'...
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on Sat Aug 01, 2015 at 08:42 PM PDT
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Athens at the dawn of the 6th Century B.C. was an unremarkable city. The arts, science, and philosophy that would make it great were still centuries away.
The only notable thing about Athens of ...
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on Sun Jul 05, 2015 at 06:33 AM PDT
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The only thing worse than forgetting history is misremembering it.
Getting your history wrong can cause important mistakes.
For instance, people wonder why Germany is so insistent on austerity ...
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on Tue Mar 10, 2015 at 12:54 PM PDT
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- I’m more pissed off about this election than I was a month ago. What we’ve learned recently about what Russia did —not to mention what Mitch McConnell wouldn’t allow our ...385 comments 143 Recs
- Why we’re losing white votes… Part 1: White Privilege White privilege is the idea that if you are a straight, white male then you’ve had certain advantages others do not. It is often implied that therefore it easy your entire life and you need to...130 comments 30 Recs
- Sarah Jones is the social media editor at The New Republic. She responded to Kos’s post on coal miners yesterday. Bob Johnson has done a great job responding. Sarah Jones does as good or better in her post and tweets. She gets it. My...1001 comments 258 Recs
- I’m embarrassed for you, kos. The more I think about the title of your latest work and the mean-spirited words that follow it, the more I wonder who we are and what we stand for. Is your diary intended to make us all feel better because we’re...1498 comments 643 Recs
- Update: So I’m out of the penalty box, and wanted to put in one last word. Thanks to all of you who read and responded to what I wrote. To those who clearly didn’t read or didn’t consider my points, thank you for illustrating my thesis. Too many...1758 comments 572 Recs
- The past month, trying to explain why I think Der Furor won the election, I have referred people a number of times to Matt Stoller’s article in The Atlantic, How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul. I just searched for Stoller’s name on DailyKos,...525 comments 266 Recs
- First, no. I’m going to be blunt: Democratic Party performance for labor and the middle class has been deplorable. Those of us all upset over the divide in the party need to realize that you created us. Yes, that divide is a direct...198 comments 93 Recs
- Kos is angry at everyone and doesn’t know why we lost the election. Here’s the root of the problem — starting with two quotes from Kos’s rant: I’m angry at Bernie Sanders and his supporters, for making “incrementalism” a dirty word,...1010 comments 569 Recs
- Kos- Here's a Comprehensive Look at How Your March 15th Gag Order ended up being a Complete DisasterMarkos, I’m hoping this reaches you. Your Gag Order of March 15th, which forced a great deal of people off of this site, some permanently, ultimately left us with no one to pull the fire alarm when urgently important problems began showing up for...1664 comments 870 Recs
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