Russell Sharp

Think of how retaliation is covered in another context. When Trump starts trade wars, the financial press, for all of its flaws (and there are many), doesn’t say: omg I thought those other countries said they wanted free trade, how could they possibly be responding with retaliatory measures

Wilhoit's Law and Pedocon theory have a lot of overlap tbh

The newish Wayward Fare (next to very good Alta Calidad and under the same ownership I think) is excellent. Have been 3 times now and haven’t been disappointed by anything I’ve tried. Haven’t been to Nuaa Table as much as I used to go but last time I went (like 6 mos ago?) it was still really solid

Yeah, though my one quibble is that contrary to Stevens’s closing line I think Rehnquist totally would have joined the Roberts opinion

Trump already withheld federal disaster relief from California on partisan political grounds but didn’t do this to Texas. No one thinks the Roberts court is going to apply a similar set of principles as those supposedly underlying Shelby County to protect California!

Even taking that analysis at face value…Does anyone actually believe that the Roberts court would apply his supposedly sacred equal-sovereignty/no-discrimination-against-states rule to protect Democrat-heavy states from Trump?

BREAKING: Fascist leader picks enthusiastically fascist operator to lead effort punishing rule-following law enforcement officer for enforcing the law with integrity.

Like, *I* am in favor of compassion and leniency here because that’s my approach to treating criminals generally, especially ones who are young. But importantly, I don’t have a carve out for just this one specific thing!

Republicans support a law and order/lock ’em up! approach when it comes to most crimes, but when it's a young adult having sex with a 13 year old, wouldn’t you know it, they want compassion and leniency for the accused. Maybe this is why many people are saying GOP stands for gang of pedos

“They accuse everybody of doing exactly what they're doing.” Republicans even project about projection!

"oh, no, ugly people don't find it harder to find a partner. they're just single because they're a moral abomination" is a way of flattering one's own sexual preferences as being fundamentally rational, when in fact they are typically pretty shallow, racist, et cetera.

…and guys in their 20s who are having some amount of sex but not, in their own view, enough. For them I have to agree with the OP that the primary goal of the discourse should be whatever it takes for them not end up being red-pilled/manosphere curious/nazified

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a big country and I’m sure there is not literally zero such people. But the target group here strikes me as actually consisting of guys who are like 18 yo virgins who will get laid in due course but are mad for now that their friends had sex at 17…

I agree with the specifics of your last series of posts. I guess where I want to push back is on whether the category of right-curious young straight male incel is a real category to begin with. I’m somewhat skeptical

I genuinely think we should look at the presence of people who cannot have physical intimacy in their lives for whatever reason as a public health issue, but I also don’t think we should focus on young straight guys with such problems at the exclusion of others

Very true but I think one thing that puts a lot of lefty people off is the focus on straight men specifically. Most people living sexless lives are that way because they’re disabled (mentally or physically) or they’re obese or they’re LGBTQ and haven’t found a community where they can be themselves

It’s the same reason poor white dudes are willing to tolerate the Republican Party keeping them impoverished as long as the GOP ensures that they will maintain a social status superior to black people

Of course it does. A lot of right wing dudes would be much happier in a world where single guys rarely or never have sex—but where women are on the whole worse off than they are—than in one where young guys can get laid but they have to respect women’s autonomy

day one of the willis administration

- arrest trump, musk, and miller
- begin demolishing the trump ballroom
- purging every doge-head from the federal govt
- funding all the vital programs they cut

ill have it done before midnight on jan 20

willis 2028

still in shock about Emil Bove. easily one of the most depraved individuals ever to be confirmed to the federal bench, and that's including the nineteenth century. prosecuting his reported crimes has to be a priority when party control of government next changes hands.

Think the Grateful Dead is pretty well regarded among music people even if the fan culture around them can be a wee bit divisive. Eg was listening to an interview with George Clinton a few years back and he was asked to name some acts that he thought best carried on his legacy and he cited them

Maybe something to this, but this was essentially the Robert Putnam Bowling Alone thesis and that was 30 years ago. It’s possible those same trends have continued and everything is worse now, but to the extent the antisocial shift has accelerated, my guess is it probably comes down to smartphones

Better way the five paragraph essay was taught to me that I think about to this day: “Paragraph 1: tell me what you’re gonna tell me; Paragraphs 2-4: tell me; Paragraph 5: tell me what you told me”

The moral high ground stuff is dumb though. Consider what’s going on with tariffs right now. No one but Trump wants trade wars. But when your exports get hit with tariffs you respond in kind to deter trade wars from beginning in the first place. No one talks about “moral high ground” in that context

To address the moral high ground concerns, is there a way for New York and California to do aggressive gerrymanders that have automatic reversion provisions to make the old maps take effect immediately (or for the next election cycle) if Texas chooses to so revert?

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

The actual quotation is nuttier. He literally said he ended his friendship with a notorious human trafficker because he didn’t like how said human trafficker would repeatedly “steal” people from him

Find someone who will never let you down the way projection as an explanation for right wing politics never lets you down

I told the New York Times that "I have the best job in journalism." In retrospect, I must give that claim three Pinocchios.