Ed Burmila

This generation of Democrats is obsessed with getting a round of applause for admitting that their critics were right (without actually saying that, ever!) ten or twenty years too late.

I’m glad Mr. Holder has seen the light, now that the damage is done because he didn’t see it when he had power.

the Gross Domestic Product? You mean kraft singles?

Nihilism is when you resign yourself to following the same failed strategy over and over, despite proven negative results, because you don't have the political imagination to see any other alternative.

That piece drops in 2031

I’m amazed they published one of these without working in a “nobody could have foreseen this”

These people were at the wheel for eight years and rather than realizing what they were dealing with, they plastered that smug look on their faces, told us all we were crazy, and insisted that “the fever will break” among their GOP friends and colleagues.

So, thanks for waking up 10 years later.

This generation of Democrats is obsessed with getting a round of applause for admitting that their critics were right (without actually saying that, ever!) ten or twenty years too late.

I’m glad Mr. Holder has seen the light, now that the damage is done because he didn’t see it when he had power.

A lot of people start out thinking of fascism as a spectator sport - a thing you watch happen to other people - and it’s only a matter of time until they find out they’re on the playing field too.

Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.

Imagine a life of such security and comfort that your version of a personal crisis is "The people at the farmers market don't like me," especially when the end of the sentence is "because I defended and possibly procured services from the world's most famous pederast."

Yeah if your motivation as an attorney is to represent someone because everyone is entitled to representation, you generally don't keep talking about that client or have anything to do with them subsequently!

Do you roll the whole thing up like a burrito and then down it in one bite, Kobayashi style?

They want to be brave like people going on a package tour want "adventure." They want the sense of being in danger coupled with the knowledge that they're in no real danger at all.

Dersh wants to tell the Brave Truths *and be lauded for it*.

Annette Becker. Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides. Departing from more conventional questions in Holocaust and genocide studies such as who knew what and when, Annette Becker, in her riveting and adroit boo

The very first report (Karski) to reach the west was characterized as "atrocity propaganda."They wrote that. In the newspaper.

academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

Witold's Report - Wikipedia

Exact same response every major media outlet in the west gave this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold%...

Imagine a life of such security and comfort that your version of a personal crisis is "The people at the farmers market don't like me," especially when the end of the sentence is "because I defended and possibly procured services from the world's most famous pederast."

I do miss the dynamics of early social media / blogosphere when people could just say a thing they're thinking rather than this expectation that every skeet must be carefully researched and objective.

That said, a big part of the dynamic was also people reading it and telling you "This is nonsense"

They all fundamentally think other people should not be allowed to dislike them simply because the things they believe our abhorrent. They cannot understand that thinking, saying, and believing awful things is a reliable indicator that someone is an awful person.

At its core, the MAGA movement is a bunch of old people whose ultimate goal is to find a way to make the government force other people to like them.

Give it a year or two and someone will introduce a bill to make it a felony for adult kids not to respond to their parents texts.

We need a dragula for the left. Someone to dig through the ditches, burn through the witches,and promote engagement with young people who are broadly alienated from partisan politics.

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It’s very well designed to get you when you’re 14 and nobody can stand you (the natural condition of being 14)

The bycatch is a lot of adult men who are emotionally 14.

I think I just ignored it (I am too old to be the target) until I realized my nephew was 12 and knew who Andrew Tate is.

Arthur Rudolph - Wikipedia

One of the paperclip guys was such a rabid nazi that the other paperclip guys were like "Rudolph is too much of a Nazi" so of course the US took him anyway and then waited 30 years and asked him nicely to self-deport en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_...

Jesus

Find a better line in the history of cinema, I dare you

By 1950 the US threw in the towel on de-nazification and by 1953 even the Class A Really Super Nazi types who got "20 year" prison sentences were back in circulation. I'm not sure that's the analogy to lean on.

Lotta motherfuckers getting Putnam Pilled and I don't mind it at all

Beethoven had critics too

I'll go a couple steps further: if this doesn't end with some kind of Truth & Reconciliation process where people like Noem end up in prison, it's inevitable that we'll be doing it all over again before long.