Jeff Fecke

Weird, because Jeffries endorsed Mamdani over Cuomo.

Fair enough.

As noted, I did not realize OP's race. It wasn't intentional, it was careless. And I don't want to spend too much time arguing against its intentionality as I don't want to minimize the harm the carelessness caused.

Yup, I've noted that. Was careless but it sucked, and I've apologized for it.

How would you have phrased it?

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Probably true.

the Constitution explicitly states that the Framers were forming a "more perfect Union."

implicit in that wording is that they did not form a perfect Union.

it is, rather, for each succeeding generation of Americans to pursue the unending task of perfecting it, just a little bit more.

Yes. It's the internet.

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I disagree with the assertion that Democrats are secretly pro-war in this case, but I would phrased that basically any other way had I realized that. I absolutely apologize to @notalawyer.bsky.social and anyone else that I offended. My error was careless but that does not make it less harmful.

Hey, quick note. I flippantly QTed this article with a riff on the old "some say Mickey Kaus blows goats" line from the aughts. When I posted that, I did not realize Peter was Iranian. Obviously, the racist stereotypes about the middle east make that line land quite a bit differently.

This is an old internet meme. I Guess We Should Talk About Mickey Kaus Blowing Goats Now share.google/XUrUmNiA1544...

I was using this old Mickey Kaus formulation. share.google/XUrUmNiA1544...

Didn't know he was Iranian, have deleted.

At any rate, I am deleting the post because while I generally leave up inartful posts because I believe you should own your mistakes, my belief in not being racist supersedes that.

Yeah, I didn't read the whole thing because I saw the "heavily implied" quote and noped out.

Every person in this society will do something racist, and while this was inadvertent, that doesn't excuse it. I apologize for that, and again, would have gone a different way to make that point.

There is a harmful, false, and racist assertion that middle easterners engage in sexual activities with livestock.

Sure. Just like my fact free assertion and Peter's fact free assertion you can also make fact free assertions.

And I did not know Peter's ethnicity, and apologize for inadvertently playing into harmful stereotypes. I was invoking the Rule of Goats, but would have gone for something else.

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The level of motivated reasoning required for some pundits to convince themselves that Netanyahu, Adelson, et al. did not actually understand their own interests when they strongly favored Trump to win is beyond my comprehension

The CIA also interfered in my attempts to woo Jennifer Connelly and become a professional baseball player.

Fine, we'll do compact molten salt reactors for those.

I don't want to switch to Linux but I may not have a choice.

Hey @ddayen.bsky.social is Matt’s racism just a personality quirk or do you agree with him and are too chickenshit to say it