Colin Ferguson

"The Newhouse family will continue being billionaires. Nobody at the top faces consequences when they kill something valuable. They just move on to the next consolidation, the next round of layoffs, the next time they decide that good journalism isn’t worth the headache."

Oh, David, please, don't say that. The cursed monkey's paw will curl another finger and we'll be blessed with more horrible misfortune!

Damn. I was really hoping that Wilson would pull ahead. I hope the closeness of this puts Harrell on notice, at least.

😂

I've got back and neck pain AND a canker sore today.

Hello Appa, and salutations.

I concur.

I also think that the Democrats let that perception stand by not fighting back on the fronts that he was attacking them on. They could have, for example, stood up for trans rights. Instead they got cowardly and said nothing, thinking that by ignoring the issue they'd look "moderate".

I don't think he "tacked to the middle", but I do think that by aggressively lying about his opposition he successfully painted them as "radical" in the minds of low information voters, making him seem the moderate option by comparison. The media sanewashing him helped sell that perception too.

I should watch it again. I tuned in to the live premier, but got pinged with a, "Hey, could you jump on a quick call?" message from work while that happened. So I technically "watched" it but had to miss most of it.

You're honestly one of the only professional pundits who's takes I trust.

Damn, that was SAVAGE.

"He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true. He frightened old Virginia 'tell she trembled through and through. They hanged him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew. His soul goes marching on."
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The opposition would make those ads anyway. They already do. Might as well go all out if they’re just going to paint you with the socialist brush rather than compromising your ideals.

It's wishful thinking. They're projecting onto Trump the values that they wanted to see embodied, nevermind the values that Trump actually espouses and those he lives.

They didn't vote for Trump as he was, they were voting for the version of Trump they built up in their own head.

The short version: Despite layoffs, buying the game still puts money in the pockets of the developers who worked on it. Which is doubly important because they're out of a job. Boycotting the game in solidarity with them by screwing them out of money won't help anyone!

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

I think fundamentally the problem with post liberal thinkers is that they seem to assume that vanquishing liberalism results in their enemies being converted or defeated and not becoming radicalized into enemies who no longer extend the mercies they once did.

I think the connecting thread on the right is a lack of intellectual curiosity. It’s both internal (lack of self reflection) and external (lack of empathy.) I don’t think they lack the capacity to do so, I think they just lack any interest in doing so.

Cripes.

See, this is the kind of thing that validates my decision to follow you. I've got a couple of costumes, one is a set of ODST armor and the other is a Sunrise suit.

I think we're in some kind of alignment.

And if they try they’ll run straight into a legitimacy crisis that’ll kick up a civil war.

“Make a hole!”

*BOOM!*

My feelings about it are very similar.

I once made Jason Jones groan by quoting his own words from that MacWorld premier back at him.

You learn to roll with it.

I work in the video game industry so I can’t really avoid the video game discourse.

I remember one of the Black Library authors saying that the trick to writing good Warhammer 40K fiction is to embrace the fact that it's goofy, but write everyone in the setting as taking that goofiness seriously.

Oh heck yeah, I remember Alice from when we both worked at the same studio!

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

I think there's a small but meaningful distinction to be made between being an edgelord – especially as a younger person – and fully embracing nazi values/beliefs. the former primes people for the latter, but they're not the same thing, and I don't think we should ever excuse nazism as a "phase"