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The bar for "doing politics the right way" can't be as low as "despite being murdered, he was not himself a murderer." Kirk was not a "robust supporter of free speech," he cut his teeth compiling lists of college professors to be fired, harassed, or worse. He was a fascist through and through

And again: Kirk was very much *not operating within the framework Egger describes* - he was targeting people with opposing ideas for harassment. He did not support free speech, and he knew he *could not* because the content of his speech would lose in an actual liberal framework of persuasion.

The discourse over Kirk’s career is really hammering home how little the media and so many Dems understand the concept of lying or bad faith arguments.

An entire life dedicated to poisoning the well under the guise of ‘an exchange of ideas’ and nobody is capable of calling it out for what it was.

Anyone saying Kirk "practiced politics the right way" thinks being pro shooting, pro stoning gay people, pro trans genocide, pro Palestinian genocide, anti abortion rights, pro public execution and keeping a list of marginalized professors for his fans to harass was "the right way"....

Yesterday, we saw multiple shootings, including the wildly unexpected assassination of a high profile figure in pop culture politics in the US. In this video, I talk about what happened and how I… On the topic of Charlie Kirk's Assassination

I made a video with a bunch of my thoughts regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination and the state of pop culture politics in the US for anyone who wants to see what I gotta say about all that

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We have to stop this refusal to live in reality bullshit, using the mans own words to show what type of person he was isnt cosigning murder.

They are going to claim we (left/liberals/Democrats/non-white non-supremacists) said whatever is most convenient for them to say we said, no matter what we say. So all the appeasement is pretty much in vain.

If liberals like Ezra are saying that someone who called for Gay people to be stoned, trans people to be lynched, Black people to accept police violence and women to obey did politics "the right way", that is in some respects more alarming that the bloviation of the far right. Bend that knee, Ezra.

This is extremely cool. GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free.
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The fact that right now I can take my Visa card and buy something from Barely Legal Boobies Dot Com or whatever, but I can't take that same Visa card and buy an erotic visual novel on itch because Visa themselves told the platform to censor adult content is just outrageous, and they need to be told.

There is no acceptable sacrificial lamb to appease purity culture. Whatever weird little pervert you are personally icked by should not be collateral damage in a discussion where, essentially, banks are vying to be the arbiters of morality so they can decide whose dirty evil money they get to pocket

As a maker of exceptionally sexless art, I just wanna say publicly that any attempt at censorship of the arts is to be resisted. NSFW art is always an easy target, but it’s also always only the first step in a chain, not to mention the artistic value of this stuff in its own right.

this is a good illustration of what “compromise” on trans rights looks like. there’s no “everyone gets rights but we take it easy on the pronouns.” if you head down that road you will end up denying that trans people are real.

Why are they they fighting Zohran harder than they’re fighting Trump

I don't know if it's because people have bought into the hype or if it's because they don't know how LLMs work, but, like... I'm gonna need people to stop treating AI like it's people. It's software. It's just really good predictive text. It says what it thinks you want to hear.

I'm getting real tired of not being able to trust that a video game doesn't have AI crap in it:

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A screenshot of an article. Headline: What is a Gamma Male? The Meaning, 54 Signs & What Makes Him Complex DR. CAROL MORGAN LOVEPANKY Nut graf: A gamma male is the emotionally intelligent, quietly complex guy who feels deep and loves deeper. Here's how to spot one, and what makes them so unique.

Same folks who insist there are only two genders have 50 subclasses for men...

I truly believe we will look back at this attitude as *the* sickness of our political era.

It is an extremely basic fact, and has been for decades, that the vast majority of political violence in the US is committed by the right! You cannot solve a problem if you refuse to identify it.

Why is there a curfew if the protests were peaceful and powerful? Why deploy cops at all?

Bad actors? Look how easy it is for the supposed progressives to use the propaganda of the right. Get the fuck outta here.

There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR
Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars.
<Later>
Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

FIrst off, none of these fascists are going to resign on their own nor will they be asked to, so seems like the oppostion party should be impeaching people and not voting with R's on their bullshit.
Secondly, you voted to thank ICE this week!
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booker ready to do anything other than vote no on republican legislation

ICE: It is DEEPLY OFFENSIVE and HURTFUL to compare us to the gestapo.

Also ICE: Ach, brothers of the soil, please inform on the hidden vermin in our midst.

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

While the #LAPD were hosting a press conference talking about keeping the public safe, the news chopper captured live video of them beating an unarmed man every time he tried to stand up:

Another tremendous example of the knee-jerk use of the passive voice in journalism.
If your lede isn't along the lines of "An Australian journalist was shot with a rubber bullet by a police officer while covering the Los Angeles protests", you're doing the LAPD press department's work for them.

the most valuable ally that trump and his ghouls have had and continue to have is not SCOTUS, not MAGA voters, not the GOP, but milquetoast cowards like Nichols

the columbia raid, and ucla letting zionists throw grenades at students, really rattled me because it was democrats letting rich kids get curb stomped with impunity, all over trumped-up claims of anti-semitism. no surprise stephen miller now thinks he can invade california to "secure the border"