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“King wasn’t always perfectly aligned with white liberals in his coalition” gets turned to “MLK hated libs more than racists” is another big one too. Similar to how “Pharmaceutical industry often engages in rent-seeking” becomes RFK Jr. anti-vax bullshit. It’s in everything and everywhere.

You see this all the time online, some originally well-based bounded criticism or point gets magnified and stripped of all that context, “some Nazis admired Jim Crow” gets turned into “the 1930s US was literally as bad Nazi Germany”, it’s so fucking dumb and it happens all the time

It’s just example # 486 of “reasonable nuanced critique of liberalism gets flattened to meaninglessness through a game of telephone”. Cogent critiques of aspects of respectability politics get turned into “it makes you a brave revolutionary to be the biggest asshole possible to everyone”

ADAM AMIN: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
ADAM AMIN: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
ADAM AMIN: oh god yes
AJ PIERZYNSKI: shoulda bunted

That game aged me 30 years

Game goes deep in extras, Cal Raleigh is position player pitching in 21st inning, Riley Greene strikes out on 45mph eephus

judge me by my enemies

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Just to make sure we're all on the same page- the Democrats *are*, in fact, pushing for the prosecution of anybody who assists Trump and Vought in their illegal RIFs:

Holy cow. This screenshot is like saying “because I have an idea it must be possible.” The plumber analogy is instructive but wrong. It’s more like if she had a plumber over and asked her to make her laundry do itself. It’s not something a plumber can do. It’s not something anyone can do.

behold, the unholy lovechild of Murc's law and smolbeanism

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Need to focus on strict licensing rather than a blanket ban for this reason, imo

i do not think people get how bad feral pigs are

this is about an acre of ecological damage

this is not including the damage they do to other animals in the ecosystem

This is basically magical thinking. It is the thought process of a small, frightened child who just wants mommy to make the pain stop and is getting angry that she can't.
The issue is that this is a grown adult, not a small child, and also when the Democrats do things it's never good enough.

Genuinely kind of funny how many people argued that criticizing US corporations playing ball with the PRC's censorship requirements to get access to that market was sinophobia when that turned out to be the blueprint for how they'd react to authoritarianism here

it's just. guys it's REALLY funny to me that people believe that if THEIR parasocial leftboi fave declares first they should Just Win By Default, but that all of THEIR contested primaries against well-positioned challengers w/ track records or incumbents are Bold and Forward Thinking

It is literally what this is. Abused people salivating at the thought of getting to be the abuser.

Doing a Stephen King readthrough, and hot take: The Tommyknockers is great. Not like, one of his absolute best, but it's delightfully batshit and a very effective cosmic horror story. Only knock against it (no pun intended) is that it's just a biiit too long.

Like, at a certain point your arguments for pain and misery to all go from the pain being instrumental to terminal, and your insistence that only mass immiseration stops Americans from being fascist holds the instantly repugnant conclusion that the immiseration can't *stop*.

Increasingly hard to ignore the fact that a significant number of people on this site think that the US should be some penitent/martyr-state kept in a permanent immiseration by the priest-theorist class for its corrupt original sin.

It's who he's doing the interview with, not what he's saying

can people get a fucking grip already

🤔

Have heard good things about the Stephen King books about Holly, do they depict an autistic character well?

Trauner always overperforms in elections. Respect the hell out of him.

being caught abusing a dog on tape is now an 'islamophobic blood libel', truly wonderful levels of derangement from the nepo baby millionaire fans.

There's nothing at all wrong with being Palestinian, and using "Palestinian" in this way is deeply racist against Palestinians, but it is also antisemitic, because it defines Jewishness as something that can be granted and removed for political reasons.

I mean, in his defense, his primary negotiating partner got assassinated.