Recent content by Torin

Our fascist totalitarian overlords have failed to obtain Republican control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This is after great efforts by Elon Musk to win a seat there for a Republican candidate. https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_elections,_2025 Edit: I see @Elixir has given...

I'm trying to be polite here, but you claimed it was happening right now in your last post. That is what I was responding to. What do you make of the massive outpouring of dissent to Trump? I can't so much as fire up my web browser without coming across two or three editorials arguing against a...

There are an enormous number of people expressing liberal political opinions publicly without any repercussions at all. You can argue that Trump is doing some bad stuff, but it would be obvious to everyone if we lived in an actual fascist totalitarian state. If you have to tediously follow the...

If you call the current situation fascist totalitarianism then you will not have a term to use for fascist totalitarianism if and when it actually arrives. If for instance Congress were to enact an enabling law granting Trump unchecked power, or if Trump were to begin imprisoning people for...

The Democrats are out of power, but many of the same avenues are available to you. You can donate money to, for instance, legal organizations opposing actions by Trump that violate the Constitution. You can also write to members of your government and ask them nicely to oppose policies that do...

It is dangerous that so many people on social media are using this murder as an occasion to air their concerns about the American healthcare system. A man was murdered in cold blood in what was probably a professional hit, and the response in left leaning spaces has mostly been muted. A large...

You are a thoughtful poster, so I thought I would pick your brain a bit. My concern about universal health care is that it seems morally wrong. I hasten to say that I do not intend to accuse you, personally, of being immoral, even if you're taking advantage of similar programs. I do not see how...

No, the situation didn't change in any relevant way. If Biden intended to pardon Hunter in the event that The Orange One was elected to the Presidency, he could have conveyed that to the American people. It was obviously a possibility all along that Trump would win. Instead, Biden repeatedly...

To the Democrats' credit, Biden is getting some criticism for this from within his own party:

There is an interesting news article in the WSJ today about RFK (there's a paywall, but I'll summarize): https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/kennedy-trump-vaccines-covid-skeptics-cfdef1bd?mod=hp_lead_pos7 In summary, the article maintains that RFK's ascendancy is in large part a reaction to...

Medical care in America is not reasonably characterized as capitalist, given the large elements of government regulation and interference in that area of our economy. Nevertheless, it is widely associated with capitalism, as we see in this thread. That is one reason people keep giving the okay...

I will happily bash China every day of the week, and twice on Saturdays. The WSJ observes, in good China bashing form, that we are sliding toward a Chinese style fascist economy. The TikTok ban is only one of several recent moves to clamp down on industry by the government. Our politicians are...

In theory, military service could show courage and an ability to carry out a plan under immense pressure. These are desirable traits for someone in high office, whose every move is scrutinized and whose decisions can have an impact on the lives of a lot of people. I'm currently reading a...

How about this? Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (third edition) by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Race-Theory-Third-Introduction/dp/147980276X

You should read a primer on Critical Race Theory written by a scholar if you want an accurate exposition you can rely on. This is a political debate forum, and nobody here is likely to be a scholar of Critical Race Theory, so it's not a great place to ask. Even if everything an internet rando...