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And to be clear, if this is or was "just" commitment to the bit, that's also bad. When his response to "you seem to be doing a lot of Nazi shit, are you a Nazi?" is "heh heh heh … am I?" the actual answer doesn't really matter

So it's possible that he *was* a dumbass edgelord but his response to being called a Nazi for, y'know, innocent dumbass edgelordery has been to defiantly lean into it

No one could accuse you of secretly loving Platner, that's true

I suppose technically "it's bad that he did this without asking first" doesn't *necessarily* mean "… because we would have said no," but it's extremely strained to read it as "if he had we we would have said yes"

Pretty sure Meidas Touch does too

I don't think "antisemitic" is an insult in this context

(That's not to say it's correct, though with no context about this person I'm inclined to believe it is. But I think a good-faith but erroneous assessment is different from an insult)

I don't see how it lends itself to that. What might someone who intends not to be antisemitic think "Talmudic" adds to the description?

All those people want Newsom to be the nominee because their reason for not voting for the Dem is locked in already. When it's someone else they'll have to come up with something.

And it's worse now because we'll say "there, it's not Newsom, you got what you said you wanted"

At this point my most charitable read of Platner is that he doesn't think Nazis are bad, does not object to being perceived as a Nazi, and does not think being perceived as a Nazi is or should be a political liability

I'm glad they explained it's a regulatory thing, I was afraid they thought human life has inherent value

Left themselves wide open for that one

Right, and again, "Godfather," though obviously that wasn't by or about MOC *or* MOT

(I didn't see the response to "The Big Sick" but I can probably guess)

There's some self-flattery here, coming from a Jewish man married to an attractive but definitely not tall or blond gentile white ethnic woman

In the mid-1970s Diane Keaton was in two movies I can think of off the top of my head as the quintessentially American love interest/success object of excluded white ethnic men

(That's not the greatest phrasing, but in a way that reflects the underlying issue anyway)

The Roth/Allen version (Roth especially) is I think holding up the WASP-conventionally-attractive, tall blonde cheerleader type as an indication of having Made It in white America

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

I suspect he was involved in the selection (if not creation), so I'm provisionally willing to give them a pass on that

And [redacted2] is on a list of people who do or support findom, which is only true if at least one of "do," "support," or "findom" is understood so broadly as to make the list highly prone to false positives, particularly as to posts

(I'm not 100% sure that one is a blocklist, but still)

(I didn't do this particular exercise with myself because I don't think I have a good perspective)

Like, it takes a willful misreading of everything [redacted] has said about politics to think he's MAGA or a Berner

I looked up [redacted] on ClearSky, and there are a couple of catchall bigot blocklists, and I don't think he's posted anything that indicates bigotry, but y'know, maybe I didn't recognize it. But he's also on at least two that are things he has repeatedly and directly stated opposition to

Fallacy of division didn't occur to me, but I'm sure that's a factor

(He works for NYT, NYT is institutionally transphobic, ergo he is personally a transphobe. It's not as blatantly fallacious as I'm making it out to be but it's still a huge leap)

I indisputably deserve to be on the not porn list, for which I'm sure everyone is thankful

It took me a disappointingly long time to unlock the "on two blocklists that claim mutually exclusive criteria" achievement

I love how there's now a substantial section of the left who's justification for being anti-anti-Platner is "Well sure he's a Nazi, but what am I supposed to do, vote for a woman? She isn't even hot! Anyway this push poll from the NRSC says he already won, so what are you gonna do?"

(Also, I'm generally pro-freedom and bristle at the idea of trying to tell people what choices they aren't allowed to make, whereas making them bear the costs of those choices I'm fine with.)

I get the sentiment, but if there are a lot of edge cases, or if it's something like "99% of people who do ___ can just not do it, the remaining 1% absolutely has to, and it's not always easy to tell from the outside," (Pigovian) taxation provides useful flexibility

Because gendering isn't universal (as @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social also notes in his thread), and, e.g., Jewish masculinity, while just as much a Role, reads as weak to Anglos

There are a bunch of posts between that one and this that I didn't post, or even write, but this ties into stereotypes of Jewish men (and probably other ethnicities too, but Jewish is what I am) as weak