R.M. McGrath

I think he made a mistake. A really dumb mistake.

As someone who made mistakes in my past, I would like to think we can do better.

Granted, mine wasn't a Nazi tattoo.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Platner's flawed, sure, but he's the best option we have out of the three major candidates.

That the Dems have invested so much to oppose him only convinces me further of that.

No? Lots of people didn't know the Totenkopf skull was a Nazi symbol. It's a reasonable assumption that a drunk Marine saw it and just thought it was a 'cool-looking skull'.

People here that have known him for years have said he's not an antisemite or Nazi.

The "unfolding situation".

"Hey, guys, let's go kick this hornet's nest...."

if they were courageous they would quit. there's nothing brave about killing kids at the whim of an irrational old pedophile

The Nazi tattoo which he said he got when he was drunk and didn't realize was a Nazi tattoo.

Goddammit.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"

Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

He also had a stroke in between those times and reportedly has cognitive issues since then.

Fetterman was always staunchly pro-Israel (and that's what these Iran attacks are about). Why do so many people think Platner is just another Fetterman?

On what are you basing this on? Platner has already spoken against the attacks on Iran.

To be clear, these attacks were done for the benefit of Israel. Fetterman was, and always has been, a strong advocate for Israel.

Platner is not. It's frankly weird that people think he's a Fetterman clone.

They bombed a girls' school.

He looks like Super Dave Osborne, FFS.

I mean, it's not like his father murdered people with a helicopter when Max was a kid or anything...

(To be clear, I'm just making a joke. Nothing excuses predatory, creepy, rapey behavior.)

I'm waiting for something crazy to happen at the Oreo factory just so I can slip into the online article's comments and quip "Panic! At Nabisco".

Mamdani's sway over Trump shows that DJT has no values. He will bend towards anyone that flatters him and is nice to him.

I think that's a terrible tactic for most Democrats to use because fuck autocrats that expect you to flatter, but it's incredibly effective for Mamdani.

We went through a pandemic just a few years ago where thousands died and just sort of went on with our lives. No collective mourning.

There were reefer trucks parked and running at hospitals for bodies because the morgues were full. It was a real sort of moment of cultural insanity.

a man in a police uniform is standing next to another man in a crowd . ALT: a man in a police uniform is standing next to another man in a crowd .

He looks like Danny Cooksey in T2.

WHY DID YOU STAND AND CLAP FOR TRUMP'S BELLIGERENCE TOWARDS IRAN IN THE STATE OF THE UNION??? Shame on you. You were supposed to be one of the better ones.

seems obvs to me that mamdani gets far because of his charm. why do "male self improvement" types always focus on things like looksmaxxing instead of personalitymaxxing or charmmaxxing?

Christ...now I'm glad I never got into them.

I have no doubt that she is telling the truth here, but the way she puts "like every other decent person" as if she hasn't praised Henry fucking Kissinger and sat in the same room with him on multiple occasions. She is not a decent person.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

The Trump administration has a Nazi problem | Mehdi Hasan Think I’m exaggerating? Consider the copious amounts of evidence

"So here’s a simple rule for Trump and his friends: if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop hiring Nazis, quoting Nazis and posting Nazi imagery."

From my piece from last month.

I think that means we save children trapped in caves by his logic...

‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release While promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

But, but... U2 just released a song celebrating Renee Good, surely that must be enough for us to forget that Bono was mentioned prominently in the Panama Papers.

He'd be a Senator. He would still have to run for re-election.

If he breaks bad and reveals himself to be a secret fascist, he just wouldn't be re-elected.

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

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