It is a little weird how we manage to continuously re-discover that American conservatism is a hotbed of bigotry.

The man has principles!

How does she find the time to murder dogs and supervise jackbooted thugs?!

"Extremism in the defense of pedophilia is no vice," said Speaker Johnson, probably.

What's with all this vice signalling from MAGA? What is the point of communicating to everyone "I am a stupid piece of shit"?

Is disappearing a country's citizens an act of war?

This framing is a really nice example of knee-jerk centrism!

Dissent within a group is probably compatible with a group will w.r.t. the matter on which dissent exists. For example, some legislators may well dissent from the majority. But, even so, it is plausible that if majority rules, then the legislature intends that such-and-such be the law.

Did you know that God hates lies?

This must be the central planning I've been hearing so much about lately!

In a slightly better world, I would be surprised that libertarians are such huge fans of tyranny.

Also: do these guys all control "unruly" neighbors with threats of deadly force?

If your neighbor tells you he will shoot you if you don't comply with his wishes, then the Bush doctrine applies, no?

They think their own faculty are incompetent.

Remember when Prager claimed that wives are obligated to allow their husbands to fuck them - whether they're in the mood or not?

This is what he wants your daughters to think - that they mustn't say 'no' to their masters.

One wonders why he didn't choose to end all rape in Texas previously.

Is it a kick in the head like ep. 1 of Takopi's Original Sin?

Do would-be Democratic voters have an aversion to "negative" campaigning and a preference for politicians who are eager for bipartisan compromise?

Alexandra Plakias has published on this, as well.

Fuck their feelings

Eyeballing the US inflation over time charts, it looks like inflation was ticking up over historical trends under Trump prior to COVID.

Who wouldn't like a dog murderer?

wow

There's probably some very interesting methodological or philosophical discussion of this somewhere! I wonder what the search engines have to say...

Yeah. It is another one of those cases in which the subjects of social scientific efforts need to guess the investigators' goals in order to help provide useful data. Like: on surveys, I often have to ignore the literal meaning of questions and guess what the question is intended to probe, instead.

Congress?! You mean exactly the Republicans in Congress, right?

Yes! I have a Spanish ancestor about four generations ago. By the census' definition of "hispanic", this makes me hispanic - since I have Spanish origins. But: it would be a gross violation of the common meaning of the term to say I am hispanic. On official forms, should I follow the official def.?

Hear hear...

Though: that "one final note" is either stupid or dishonest. Colleges never stopped providing students with the opportunity to debate Aristotle, or the like. Philosophy departments, for example, routinely offer courses featuring Aristotle.

"Caves" suggests that the NYTs is opposed to his agenda.

Notice the use of "confirmed." Something can't be confirmed without being true. Nobody has ever confirmed that 2 + 2 = 5, for example. So: the NYT's view is that the Mamdani's victory is, in fact, a "spiritual Kristallnacht" and that Mamdani "would threaten Jewish safety," if elected.

Kirk just prefers that creeps have power.