Bone

Still love the man, tho

Michael Mother-Effing Dukakis.
Seeing the technocrat nerd lose was an unfortunate early lesson in politics for me.

Bonus primary points to which ever Democrat promises to demolish whatever fucking monstrosity ballroom Trump builds

one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

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ok

Apropos of nothing: It is vitally important to always have a person in your life that will not hesitate to, honestly and kindly, tell you when you are completely full of shit.

Similar feelings reading this as to when Aerosmith starts playing in Armageddon: a tearful salute feels like the only appropriate response.

Maybe he meant to get a tattoo of Nina Totenberg and the guy wasn’t listening.

Black and white photo of a woman inter 20s or 30s, with short hair, looking over one shoulder

Can we just appreciate how stunning young Ursula K Le Guin was

birthright citizenship is about as brass tacks as it gets for believing in America.

Like: 1A, 2A, cops need a warrant, everybody gets a lawyer and birthright citizenship.

everything else is, ya know, a negotiation.

American by birthright are - try to follow me here:

**Birthright Americans.**

The notion that an authentic working class party must embrace Nazi iconography?

That's some of the most insulting shit I've ever fucking heard.

You've deliberately conflated "blue collar" with "nazi scum" so fuck you.

No real leftist would so despise the working class that they'd imagine you can't find working class people by the dozens who never flirted with Naziism.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Maybe we'll get Governor Wu at some point.

I guess where I’m landing is less “oh no he’s a Nazi” and more “I just went through this shit with Fetterman and Sinema and a six year term is too long for me to take on faith that your Nazi tattoo was the accident but what you’re saying now is the truth.”

skinheads against racial prejudice

in high school this was my "phase"

I get it. Platner was exciting and Janet Mills is unbuttered toast, but we need to have some standards here.

At some point the things that people do actually need to be held against them. Getting a Nazi tattoo and choosing to keep it are bad things that should be disqualifying for a politician and we should just be able to say that.

ok the actual lesson is that everyone has to campaign in the nude. like the greeks of old

So fucking disappointed in Graham Platner.

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

The Epstein Memorial Ballroom

The Epstein Memorial Ballroom

About this time last year, the Biden administration dispensed $250 billion to develop 30,000 affordable housing units.

David Bowie in Japan. He's waling up some steps while wearing a long black coat and smoking a cigarette.

David Bowie in Japan. He's standing in front of a train while wearing a long light-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's riding a subway car while wearing a long dark-colored coat.

David Bowie in Japan. He's walking away from a train while wearing a long black coat, gray checked scarf, charcoal trousers, and black shoes.

most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing

i think this is why Charlie Kirk's death shook the right so much. For all their prognosticating about how "ackshually libs are the violent ones", left violence is extremely low, so A. the fact it happened freaked them out, and B. "don't you liberals know We're The Ones With The Guns" is load-bearing

to so many of them, in a similar manner, the realization of them being on the receiving end of the violence, not just being the ones directing and pointing it, was inconceivable; especially to be done by /generic people/ - doubly so that it could be primed by their own rhetoric calls for violence

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

I take no pleasure in this but going to a different city with your dumb buddies and getting badly injured because you antagonized a bunch of strangers and fell down twice chasing the 110lb teenager who stole your sunglasses actually is North Jersey Excellence, of a sort.