Dan Hauge

A premise of this argument seems to be that rarity necessarily entails unimportance: there may be a philosophical disagreement here depending on the specifics of the issue in question.

So much “replacement” grievance boils down to aesthetics as a source of emotional security.

They actually got someone who can do a decent makeup job

MLK, who famously never “brought religion” into his activism.

Yeah, honestly this has started to feel less like “we’ll be in power forever” and more like setting as much on fire as you can on your way out.

Yeah, compulsively watchable is enough, lol.

I can totally get feeling like that's the kind of show this was going to be, and not liking the form of storytelling that it's doing, but for myself I like where it's going. It's partly a mystery/quest story but it's more about what do loneliness and connection look like in this scenario.

Dreher was going on years ago about how The Camp of the Saints had so much vulgar racism but also was right about everything ...

They want an entire Sister Soulja campaign and it just won’t be gripping or relevant to anyone but the Substack centrists.

Yeah I thought he was going to try some bullying theater like he do with Zelenskyy—didn’t see this vibe coming at all.

It’s a political opportunity for Dems but at the end of the day if they win they’ll have the same problem!

Gotta say Bezos got exactly what he wanted from WaPo editorial.

In terms of elections, middle-range voters are no more passionate about anti-wokeness than they were excited about cultural progressivism. The tendency of pundits to ignore clear evidence that Trump won on the economy and insist it was an anti-woke referendum doesn’t help our analysis.

That was basically Bill Maher’s take as well—Democrats need to reject the idea that there’s anything wrong with groping women, and signal that more Cuomos are welcome back in the tent.

Saw the byline and of course

Cue the J.D. Vance defense that "this kid" is just blowing off some steam because of all the DEI

This is good—though now I suspect that statements like these will be used as further pretexts for deploying federal troops (“clearly local law enforcement does not recognize the severity of the threat an so cannot be trusted to protect the people …”

Best of luck ………

For immigrants with legal status the danger of losing that status due to posted opinions is very real. The administration has made it clear that they are indeed 'scouring' social media feeds looking for any reason to either deny visas or revoke status and deport.

He’s gonna bring them all the way out here just to tell them to stop woke and be warfighters isn’t he

Whats interesting to me is the assumption that Shaping the Discourse and influencing institutions is the only legitimate purpose of social media.

Like sometimes people just want to say stuff—to vent, learn something, see how people are reacting to events.

In all of these conversations "serious" generally just means "more willing to hurt other people in the pursuit of our own interest" - it doesn't involve any other level of acumen or strategic thinking.

Not all heroes wear capes

This is one of the most perniciously stupid and callous policies I can think of, and the bar is high.

Finest Worksong

YouTube video by LiveNOW from FOX “We’re all going to die” said Senator Joni Ernst at an Iowa town hall on Medicaid cuts

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Another clear indicator that Stephen Miller runs immigration policy as independently of Trump as he can get away with (there will probably be a reversal on this in a few days after Miller gets the chance to talk him down).

I think we don’t really address how much an appearance or vibe of slowness is the decisive factor in how we treat this issue—it’s not really about age, or health, it’s how Biden speaks in a slower affect (that codes as “feeble”) and Trump doesn’t.

Hell Montreal is south of Seattle 😳

Fair enough. I feel like cable news got the ball rolling but you’re right, it was social media that really brought us to where we are now.