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Pretty sure Trump’s only ideology is staying in power and thereby avoiding/delaying criminal prosecution. If racism helps him win a second term he is willing to go there, but more than anything about Trump, it just shows where we still are as a country.

There is no poll rigging going on. You seriously go down the rabbit hole on almost everything you post.

Neoconservatism is the most disastrous political movement in the last 50 years. It revitalized imperialism, gave us the second war on Iraq, promoted torture, lionized Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin. But I guess blind hatred of Trump is enough to embrace incompetent hacks and raging neocons like...

Sounds awesome. Anything that gives neoconservatives, neoliberals and crypto-fascists heartache is worth exploring.

As others have said the NBA can only fine members of the Association (e.g., owners and players) under threat of banning or terminating membership and contracts. The NBA has no authority to fine fans, their only power is to ban us from arenas and/or invalidate tickets. Police have the power of...

The idea that progressive taxes or a concern over inequality are exclusively liberal ideas is false. Adam Smith, the great conservative icon, favored a form of progressive taxation and an economic system that, when properly formulated, would not allow for the huge inequality in wealth and income...

Fox News is the highest rated cable news source with about 2.5 million prime time nightly viewers. In comparison, network news programs still average far more viewers. CBS, NBC and ABC each have between 6 and 9 million viewers to their nightly prime time news. Fox News influence far outweighs...

Way too many people are uncomfortable talking about or even thinking about racism. It’s an incredible and willful ignorance given our nation’s history. Great writers are out there, more than able to educate and inform on what it means to live as a black man in America. “The Beautiful Struggle”...

MMT is not made up by Fox News, although their reaction may be hysterical, can’t say for sure as I never watch cable news. MMT is Modern Monetary Theory, a position currently being promoted by some leftist economists like Stephanie Kelton and James K. Galbraith (son of mid-20th century’s most...

I still try to hold on to some conservative values. In college, I was heavily influenced by conservative icons like Edmund Burke, Michael Oakeshott and Raymond Aron, but over the last ten years especially, their ideas and influence has been trashed by the reactionary right. No question that...

Bill Gates wants a tax on wealth much like Thomas Piketty has recommended, rather than just an increase in income tax rates. "In terms of revenue collection, you wouldn’t want to just focus on the ordinary income rate, because people who are wealthy have a rounding error of ordinary income. . ...

Not sure why you feel so isolated. There’s actually a pretty good mix of opinion on Jazzfanz. I could easily come up with 20 to 30 posters who are not anywhere close to “liberal to the core” and would have a more difficult time coming up with an equal number that are. Maybe you just conflate...

The crisis is that facts no longer matter and truth is in danger of being relativized out of existence. The pseudo-posters will continue to jam their fingers in their ears, but for those interested in an expansion on what the OP is getting at, here is a very good article, now over a year old...

Yeah, Alfalfa likes to kid around. Solid poster, even if American. Almost up there with alt13.

No. Although I do try to speak Spanish on occasion. Also, a big fan of both Spanish and French culture. Aussie culture is hit or miss.

Some of the best posters here are not American. For example, a few of my favorites are from France and Spain. Hit or miss for the Australians.

Intersectionality started as a way for black women to relate to white feminists. Now, it’s evolved into a way to study and better understand how our beautiful mosaic of human cultures and subcultures relate to society as a whole. It's all good until discrimination and oppression enter the...

I think you’re being sarcastic in a way that didn’t click in with me, but White Nationalists, most of whom only claim to be Christian, have a long history of anti-Catholicism.

Are the Exum homers the worst group of posters in JazzFanz history? I didn’t play much attention to the Carlos Arroyo homers so an honest question.

Magnus easily wins the rapid chess 3-0, in a best of four tiebreaker, and retains his world championship. Fabiano is not the best intuitive player, his strength is the depth and accuracy of his calculations and in classical chess he has the necessary time. In faster time controls, where in-depth...