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- They say the next ones will be sent by a non-hegemonic American administration that depleted all of his country's soft power

- Really makes you feel like you're part of history!

this is basically how gen-x ended up the way we have [derogatory]

Just like the object of torture is torture, the object of bombing is bombing.

‘There is no difference between the parties’ is frankly one of the more blinkering articles of faith a lot of people hold. If you believed it, you couldn’t really believe Trump was gonna do what he was obviously gonna do

I'm good with the pro-Palestine messaging, and the keffiyeh Hello Kitty is cute. It's the HAMAS license plate and the "Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine" bit that make me worry these may be the sort of campists who want mass killing of civilians and ethnic cleansing, just in the other direction.

the death of secret societies has increased antisemitism by redirecting ambient social distrust towards Jews

substituting 'American Democrat politicians' for 'Gavin Newsom, literally only Gavin Newsom no other human democrat or not has said those words' and locking replies is, how do they say, giving away the game

i have the video saved, but i don't have it hosted anywhere

they're not going to do this and don't need it, but as the white house's politics advisor, i am going to loudly insist that they keep repeating it

I think there was supposed to be a comma after "Chabad-Lubavitch".

"antisemitism" still has meaning to people who actually care about bigotry on principle. What it's lost because of the over- and mis-use is a lot of its strength as a taboo to people who only cared about it because they were afraid of social disapproval.

Either she's bullshitting, or I'd really hate to see what her reporting was like before.

motivated by the exact same forces that are making American cities less distinct from one another but far less observed and remarked upon because the media propaganda campaign to portray rural areas as bastions of authenticity in order to promote reactionary politics

I will never believe we're cooked. But I do think that a lot of leftists who consume a ton of social media need to ask how and why they end up repeating lightly laundered far-right discourse.

8/8 The fact that Platner is obviously a guy who has a Nazi-adjacent past--tattoos, Blackwater, history of racism--and is now running as a leftist is a BONUS for these guys. To them, it's not a red flag, it's proof of concept. They can't tell you that, though, because they know how that sounds.

The only thing I can really think of for why Ryan Grim is so desperate for Graham Platner is, I believe, the same reason why there was a massive orgiastic rush of anger about critiquing Joe Rogan when he said one nice thing about Bernie. They want there to be a right-wing-white-male to left pipeline

An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.

The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage

i don't care about any arguments against this. right now the sum total of my political advocacy is: crush the Republicans and make them pay. i don't care what comes after because until we do that nothing better is possible.

this is not incidental!

to be a liberal/pluralist of any kind requires accepting that other people will see things differently than you do and that you have no sanctified monopoly on the One Truth.

this is what illiberals hate about liberalism. it’s the starting point for many.

I think it's um rather interesting how desperate people are to believe that America can't possibly be invading a country that its conservatives have talked about invading every single year for the past forty six years except if a nefarious foreign force bribed it to.

Fun fact- the overwhelming majority of people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror were French peasants who were killed *en masse* as a result of political power-plays between factions of the Revolutionary Government.

To appreciate trans existence you have to face the horrifying reality that trans adults were not cis kids.

i think they understand the bang-bang kind of war as a form of culture war, actually:

A. they incoherently stagger from thing to thing - Venez. to Iran now, maybe Cuba
B. the main focus is national regeneration through violence
C. victory is when people post about how based the military is now

Panel from Hark! A Vagrant featuring an officer saying "Losing? That's a bad strategy, son, plus it's gruesome. Winning is what I do, stick to that." He's pointing to a display on an easel that just says WIN in huge letters.

You're the one responding to a question about anything he's actually done by pointing to what he's said. (But not the things he said online a few years ago, only the things he said since he started running for office.) So, yes.

This is uncharitable but consistent with a major consideration that preoccupies me: that investment in Platner is really about investment in the 'aspirationally normal masculine man' aesthetic he exudes as a substitute for substantive politics or policy.

"Does anything matter to you in a Senate candidate other than vibes?"

"You don't understand, the vibes are really good!"

Internet leftists be like "Centrists are terrible because they hate leftists more than they hate fascists! Also, I hate centrists more than I hate fascists."