Athie Gnome

All the pundits and news outlets that bought into these schmucks’ transparent nonsense about antisemitism at the Ivies should reflect for a few minutes on how badly and easily they were played.

Yep.

It's another version of the same puzzle. Why can Trump embrace the Tea Party and QAnon but Dems can't say that genocide is bad? Idk.

They aren't really talking about candidates, but rather about social movements. They think the BLM, Gaza, Me Too, and LGBTQ movements harmed the party.

I'm sure it's good and valid that sports leagues in the U.S. have partnered in depth with gambling operations, and it's probably just growing pains that a major U.S. league is currently seeing its integrity called into question because of infiltration by the literal mafia.

These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa” If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.

"According to the government’s case, the defendants’ all-black clothing, handheld radios, and use of encrypted messaging apps serve as evidence, not of their being security-conscious protesters in a period of escalating political repression but, rather, of being members of a 'militant enterprise'."

I think this ought to be pretty uncontroversial. People comfortable connecting themselves with Naziism can certainly grow and change, but they don't need to be senators. Leadership isn't for everyone, right?

Also it doesn’t matter.

Nazi tattoo = NOT THE CANDIDATE FOR US SENATE

WTF Murphy.

This account is pro-Nazi Buddhism content. Weird stuff, we're seeing some things these days. Thanks, Platner, I guess.

LLMs are optimized in part to increase user engagement. I think that's the whole story here.

Interesting that Jacobin regards antifascism as "wokeness." I do not understand the apparently magnetic appeal of Nazi dudes for some segments of society. We need deep change in our path as a community.

End up with a new Fetterman. Definitely not a good path.

In my experience, it's very easy to misunderstand things on social media, especially if they come from a different perspective than one is used to. It's low-context communication, which has issues. But, yeah, maybe a lot of us should stop and reflect before committing ourselves to wrath...

In a functional world, the $2 billion quid pro quo pardon of crypto criminal CZ would lead to presidential impeachment and removal all by itself.

People want to talk about whether Graham's "transformation" and "apology" can be accepted. A key point is that he didn't come forward with his recent homophobic past of his own account. He had hidden this and didn't take accountability until forced to do so. This doesn't give authenticity.

Listen, if you have a terrible idea, it's correct to have the integrity to pair it with terrible execution.

I always thought, "Well, of course, they had to execute John Brown." But yesterday—AND I'M SORRY I FORGOT WHO—someone noted we didn't execute Robert E. Lee, and I'm really embarrassed that I never made that connection before.

I’m not going to rant about this. We’ve seen enough

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

Will the end of the bubble bankrupt the fossil fuel folks or will they just use their political connections for a bailout

If a rabbi is thrown out of a study hall but lands such that one of his feet is within 50 cubits of the study hall and the other is farther, do I get to keep the rabbi?

It feels quick and easy at the end, but this was actually a sort of slow erosion of norms, trust, and investment in representation that dates back at least to Nixon.

Institutions need to be a broad, collective project or they just mean nothing. You can't look at them like an economics problem; if people are all approaching institutions in a spirit of self-interest, it's all already over. A functioning society needs community.

In my experience, with public figures, strategy is often at least as important a guide as either belief or opinions. So I look at coalitions and incentives.

I don't think it matters what he believes. All these folks grift. The actions and words are where the danger is.

Smart relative to? Trump, Ye, Baked Alaska, Richard Spencer, David Duke? I think so. And perverted and terrible.

People need to be taking Fuentes more seriously. The guy is the smartest, most competent leader the American far right has had in a long time (Trump definitely included). The danger level here is as high as it gets.

People who support Gavin Newsom are risking the end of the Democratic Party, just like Starmer is doing to Labour.

The current Secretary of Defense did serve in the military. He guarded people in Guantanamo, acted as a civil affairs officer, and taught a class at a school.

No wonder he's an expert in hard-core macho war-fighting. Because he avoided it, like any reasonable person.

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine