Crimsoncloak Esquire

Vicious bigots like him don't care. The truth doesn't matter. Whether they're making up reasons to hate immigrants, Jews, or queer people, it all starts with hate and everything is in support of that.

I get your ugly attempt at a parallel here, and the Boers weren't a diaspora population forced to flee back and forth from South Africa across centuries. Thanks for your gross bigotry.

Sure, but "Zionism is white supremacist colonialism all about killing every Palestinian" isn't criticizing Israel. It's hating the Jewish people, generations of us, who have fought to return to our homeland and survive the brutalities done to us. Lots and lots of people can't seem to manage this.

Several of my former friends, people that I organized with in real life for years in NYC to support leftist causes and candidates, made it very clear that they believed basically every hateful lie about Jews that one could imagine and wanted to see Israel utterly annihilated.

to provide all of it. To be the sole source of emotional comfort for them. This is, of course, untenable for anyone.

They also tend not to have close male friends, either. No really close. They're taught that any kind of vulnerability, any emotional honesty outside of angry bullying, is weakness. They never learn any kind of healthy emotional relationships with anyone, and so expect a romantic partner...

It is insane how much supposedly neutral outlets uncritically accept right wing framing, despite them being utter nonsense.

The whole idea seems risky

I get harassed on here *a lot* more than I ever did on twitter.

I don't think he really wants to be a senator anymore

Coming out in favor of kings was not the objection I was expecting here

Prosperity Gospel finds the same fertile soil in Christianity that the divine right of kings does. Christianity has always been like this.

"loving your neighbor, welcoming the stranger, turning the other cheek*, forgiveness, and mercy"

These are literally Jewish values. You're blaming Jews, who actually do those things, for Christians not doing them.

Maybe not *, but our cheeks have seen far more abuse than yours.

I want covid boosters

Yes, and it is *extremely* easy to do that without being a gross racist bigot. And yet, basically every "anti-zionist, not antisemitic" person fails that simple test over and over.

I bet you never say this shit to Evangelical Christians

Oh look, the gentiles are defining us again. This person is identical to apocalyptic Christians who want to use us for their end times fantasies. This one wants to use us for a fantasy where you can scapegoat a marginalized people to create justice. We're never allowed to just live as people.

And as always, no one is shooting Evangelicals over Israel

This is why the original Mortal Kombat was basically perfect. The game is supernatural Enter the Dragon. The movie is supernatural Enter the Dragon. No notes.

Correct, I do not. Rogan's whole appeal is rooted in conservative values. He doesn't know anything and promotes whatever justifies his biases and those of his reactionary audience. He is living proof of the maxim that lies are simple and easy and the truth is complicated. We protect the truth.

That's kinda, sorta, you know... murder...

The last thing we need is elevating more "hot takes" as if they were facts. Podcast bros have done enormous harm to every movement for justice in the last decade.

I've met Chuck Schumer in person and he has absolutely no vision. He has no desires besides being seen as a wise statesman and saying, "now now, let's not get excited". This is the supposed leader of the opposition - a person who doesn't really oppose anything.

Podcast bros like him have been pushing reactionary ideas and conspiracy theories into leftist spaces for the last decade and are absolutely the wrong people to elevate. These are the people who thought RFKjr was some kind of leftist hero. No thank you.

They always quote Niemoller, a nazi who was bummed out when the other nazis turned on him, and never any of the victims of naziism. He was literally the guy who voted for the leopards clutching his pearls when they ate his face.

No one forced anything on anyone. Society progressed past an exclusion of people that used to be considered a given, and a lot of people who still want to exclude people decided to burn the country down instead of being decent people.

So long as the populist left throws out the podcast bros and conspiracy theorists that have been poisoning it for the last five years, yes. I don't recognize the movement anymore from what it was during OWS and early BLM. Anyone who thought RFKjr was some kind of leftist hero needs to be tossed out.

Me and my l'il darkness friend

So were Bush's. And Reagan's. And Nixon's. And actually a lot of Eisenhower's. Racism (and anti-feminism, anti-immigrant xenophobia, and antisemtism) have been the backbone of conservative politics for generations.

Governments that abandon their own people are illegitimate and need to be thrown out the door