Pretty much any time I talk to someone who uses the term "biological sex" when referring to trans people, I end up hearing about how I should be forced to use restrooms with men and how people under 25 aren't developed enough to decide whether they should medically transition.

Certainly growth is required if you decide to stay with a system that prioritizes endless increases in value for shareholders. I don't disagree with a robust social safety net.

This is just a polite obfuscation over the claim that protests should be illegal.

This is the single stupidest claim on this list, and it's this sort of idiocy that is causing widespread ecological collapses across the planet.

Sure. I will happily move to end affirmative action and other programs when there stop being massive racial discrepancies in education, poverty, criminal prosecution, etc.

There is a deeply skeptical look on my face.

Self-evident.

I see more slurs on Twitter than I do obsessive language policing.

Obfuscatory language hiding a clear dislike for progressive projects.

I really loathe when people are too afraid to just come out and say what they mean. This is mealy-mouthed drivel.

Democrats outperformed other incumbent parties globally. The trans issue was not what people cared about. Neither was global warming. What dominated people's minds was inflation and the economy. Yglesias is, as ever, a reactionary seeking to push his conservative views now that he sees an opening.