BeijingPalmer

It is… rather astounding at this point. As I’ve said elsewhere, is it morally right? No. But is it good policy? No. Does it make keeping your other promises easier? No. But is it a vote winner in its own right? Demonstrably not.

Labour’s watchword: well it may not be popular but at least we’re doing the wrong thing

We should in fact maintain strict vigilance about "is it that you're against the bad stuff Israel is doing, or is it that you're a fucking antisemite???"

The Platner candidacy, at this point, seems pretty expressly premised on "no we shouldn't"

Five minutes after losing a by-election when voters defected en masse because of their pandering to the right: what if we were *more* racist

I saw this earlier and it's shocking - truly shocking that someone can come on free view tv and express these in your face racist views

GB NEWS should be taken off the air until they get their house in order.

okay I've added another group, "people who think tucker carlson is outflanking democrats to the left by talking about oligarchic financiers":

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this is a venn diagram of "people who thought the east palestine train derailment was a turning point in american politics" and "people who think graham platner is exactly what democrats need"

Everything is a scam that kills people now.

do you remember that puzzle in Gabriel Knight where you have to make a fake mustache to imitate someone, but then the person you're imitating doesn't have a mustache so you have to draw a mustache on their picture?

that's the level of logic we're dealing with here

one of the funny truths you learn if you write in the cross-genre romance space is that people who don't like the sex will hallucinate massive amounts of it in your book, and people who wanted more sex will be able to estimate an exact sex word count within like 75 words.

They'll both be mad tho.

*because he gets cursed to crawl on his belly, the interpretation that snakes must have previously been upright, etc, is also an old one.

Eve has sex with the serpent and then sex with Adam and the serpent's seed produces one line of humanity and Adam's anothers. You actually find it in some Jewish legends (though in that version the bad seed produces Cain, etc.) Also the serpent is a sexy snake-man at the time*.

oh, Arthur Hertzberg told me that in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s he used to get asked - usually late at night - about the Elders of Zion and how the Japanese could get membership moderately often.

there is a good book to be done on this.

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the problem is that David Icke both sincerely believes in the lizard people *and* thinks that a lot of Jews work for the lizard people.

he's not an antisemite pretending to be a crazy person, he's a crazy person who is also an antisemite.

Former Harvard president Summers’ soft landing after Epstein revelations is case study of economics’ trouble with misbehaving men Despite repeated calls for the university to revoke his tenure, the economist held onto his teaching and academic appointments until he chose to retire.

Important on Summers, Epstein, economics, Harvard and soft landings for big shot men. theconversation.com/former-harva...

I always thought the Pod Save America guys were mediocrities who - like a lot of mediocrities - clung to Obama's coattails, but now I think they're fucking idiots.

I know a guy working on this campaign and frankly I will never respect him again.

There is a shitload of blame to go around for this debacle, but Maine's labor movement (for recruiting Platner) and Chuck (for recruiting Methuselah the Union Buster) can share the gold medal.

Yes, the state of Maine is apparently super cool with Neo-Nazi adjacent chuds. Great. That sucks.

That may be true. And also as a Jew who is worried for my own safety and the safety of my family by the aggressive mainstreaming of violent antisemitic conspiracism across the political spectrum, this is an insanely callous response.

That doesn’t actually constitute a moral excuse for his pattern of behavior.

Since this is a response to me, I’ll respond back: I don’t think I can sink Platner that way. I think he’s definitely going to be the Democratic nominee and likely the next Senator. And that means both parties no longer have taboos against candidates who associate with Nazis, and that scares me!

“In this house we respect intersectional feminism” *Reacher beats a man unconscious with a second dude”

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...

...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

Donald Trump’s Worst Deal The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

Now is a good time to recall that the Trump hotel in Azerbaijan was built in a partnership with one of the most notorious post-Soviet Mafia leaders and Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Yeah, that Revolutionary Guard.

As they say, you can tell a lot about a man by the company he keeps.

I know this is emotionally difficult for various left-liberal male podcasters who have developed embarrassing crushes on Platner (PSA, KYE, etc) but start watching REACHER or something

The two options at this point are (1) that Platner is a straight up Nazi, (2) he is the dumbest motherfucker in the state of Maine, the second is arguably better in some abstract sense but both are disqualifying

however he gave the Pod Save America boys a hard-on so we should ignore all this