Keep on laying those golden eggs, goose.

A difference in moral philosophy. The ability to help, absent some other relationship, does not create the obligation to help.

If the USA sabotages itself this way, at least I won’t have to learn Chinese because the AI will be able to translate for me.

The court hasn’t been expanded since the Civil War so I’m not sure what pattern you have in mind when you say:

We always ended up waiting until long after it became necessary for the next expansion.

Yes - if the Democrats do it, I don’t think that the next time Republicans are in power they’ll just accept the Democrats’ Supreme Court.

Not literally revolving justices, but rather adding enough new justices each time to establish a majority.

You might as well just have a rule that says each new President can appoint a fresh set of judges, because that would be the practical effect of such a change. I suppose that to many people, the idea of a Republican court during Republican presidential administrations and a Democratic court during Democratic presidential administrations is more appealing than the current court, but I’m not at the point yet where I would favor undermining the independence of the judicial branch even if that would lead to better short-term outcomes.

Any space can be a parking space if you just believe.

It makes the candidate weaker than he would otherwise be if everything else was equal, but you’re right that a candidate opposed by special interests can overall be stronger than a candidate not opposed by them. My point is just that you can’t judge a candidate’s strength or weakness as something independent of those attack ads.

Being the sort of candidate who motivates special interests to spend a fortune trying to stop you from getting elected makes you a weaker candidate, if all else is equal, where “weaker” here is referring to electability rather than ideology or the preferences of a Platonic ideal public.

Benson is the governor-elect.

El-Sayed with 2,497,852 and Benson with 2,591,316 as of right now. I haven’t added up all the other candidates but according to the votes to percentage ratios, about the same number of people voted in each contest.

2,497,852 / 52.52 = 47,560

2,591,316 / 54.54 = 47,512

demolished the conventional wisdom that Democrats need to run cautious, corporate-friendly centrists to win in purple and red states

Hah, no. We’ll have the year of the Linux desktop before that ever happens. Leftist candidates won because the Democrats were so strongly favored that even weak candidates won, but the leftists did worse than a generic Democrat would have done.

El-Sayed, for example, won Michigan 52.5 to 45.5 as of the current count. Meanwhile the Democratic candidate for governor Jocelyn Benson won 54.5 to 43.7. There were enough people voting for her but not for him to swing a normal election to the Republicans.

No one in the world who would do any of those things has ever worried that he was being creepy in a non-sexual situation. Meanwhile the whole point of the worry that you’re being creepy in a non-sexual situation is that stuff you would comfortably say to another man might sound weird to a woman.

The woman wanted to go to a pet store to see the animals, she asked to hold a ferret, and the ferret bit her. For some reason I still don’t understand, I immediately bought that ferret, although I had never even seen a ferret before that day. (He was a cool dude, but he did think nipping people was funny.)

Both can be true at the same time.

Oh, was the looting in self-defense?

An oddly positive portrayal of the sort of protest culture that I think residents of most other countries are glad not to share. Even French people aren’t happy with it - the main political consequence of the protests so far has been increased support for Le Pen by people who want forceful government action against the protestors.

Married + home

A house is easy - how much money do I need for a husband/wife?

The fact that this is the best thing about getting older, and therefore that nothing about getting older is better than this, paints a rather bleak picture of aging.