Dan

yeah, there's just a bunch of overlapping claims

“Israelis are merely culture vultures who don’t have any traditions or customs of their own” do you freaks fucking hear yourselves?

Some people on here hear “Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism” and conclude, “All antisemitism is actually anti-Zionism.”

I don't understand how "people yelling at me in the comments" can be misconstrued for "thought police" except by way of a bizarre generalization such as "anyone who tells me my opinion is bad is the thought police"

Or the fourth!

And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read.

This is the worst kind of pathetic clout-chasing. Take this shit back to Xitter, @sallyjenx.bsky.social. Everybody else, block this absolute doofus and live your lives free of nonsense shit-stirring from bad faith actors .

I expected this from the Greens, but it's disappointing to see in the NDP.

Doesn't every dog do this?

they aren’t allegations, he’s fucking said this

Right, but that's "vibes-mediated inflation" not no inflation. We need Stancilism-without-Stancil.

"vibes voters get vibes from traditional and social media" - sure, ok
"media made the Biden economy seem very bad" - sure, ok
"inflation isn't what people were mad about, just vibes" - now hold on there..

No inflation was actually high and once prices are up and interest rates are up people simply do not appreciate prices rising less steep.

At first i thought the majority on the court was just a bunch of hardcore gop partisans with brains pickled in right wing propaganda but after seeing them do these softball book tour interviews with right wing outlets I'm convinced they're just neutral arbiters doing their best.

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Bukharian (Judeo-Tajik dialect) - Wikipedia

Yeah, gotta get Judeo-Tajik in there

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

"you should do good and not evil" is not delivered with a particularly high degree of subtlety in Watchmen. like the writing is very good, and layered, but I don't see how you misread it this badly

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he then stands like this with his back to where Manhattan was, being dwarfed by his own shadow, and he is frowning

adrian veidt is asking if he did the right thing and being told "no"

doctor manhattan is literally an omniscient god and he is not hinting about Rorschach's manuscript. he is informing Veidt of the vast scale of the universe and that, from a god's-eye view, the things he has done are forever frozen in the moment when they happened and cannot be undone

This is such a deeply weird way to speak

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war: The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work. Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure. In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation. Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

Classic abuser language: "look what you made me do"—and the consequence is wildly disconnected from the invented transgression.

Their RIFs of choice have *nothing* to do with the shutdown, nor with D asks/demands.

And the choice isn't between federal *employees* or the military.

He's just a liar.

and this is in turn tied to what they think america is supposed to be: a rigidly hierarchical and patriarchal society dominated by a religious and business elite

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

"If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." -- Justice Kavanaugh

I remember this cover!