i find it pretty remarkable how we blatantly have what is essentially an incredibly well-coordinated fascist-ultranationalist internationale whilst every theoretically internationalist opposition is seemingly isolated within its own national political context
I remember watching Polis throw our public workers and our people into the woodchipper during the pandemic and hearing everyone praise him for being strong on the economy. It made me feel like I was losing my mind.
Your boo is correct here. Just like a hiking trail where you reasonably think you're far away from anyone is public, it's not about the isolation but the access. That said, doesn't that add to the thrill a bit?
Trump tapped him specifically because Vance is a sniveling whelp with no juice. His whole appeal to Trump was his inability to threaten him. The moment he loses his protection from Trump, the rest of the party will come at him with knives out.
There's an alternate dimension where he got cast as Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat and never took up his life of crime
Ooooh elaborate on this idea please
I think the Army historical records are more reliable than a neoconfederate blog post that references a US military oath from 1729, some 60 years before the founding... Lee was free to resign his commission. That didn't relieve him of his oath of allegiance, which by supporting the CSA he violated.
Looked it up for good measure, they absolutely did. Maybe you're thinking about a change in the official language in 1861, but the oath goes back to the founding of the nation. history.army.mil/Research/Ref...
Here's a good lecture from Elizabeth Brown Pryor, one of the greatest Lee scholars of the past few decades. I will take her word and her documentation of Lee's writings over the assurances of a Bluesky anon. youtu.be/65DP8paiK5A?...
Every West Pointer swears an oath to defend the United States Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Lee's own writings acknowledge this oath and his anxiety over breaking it. Oath breaker is the correct term.
Like sure, tear down every statue and slash every portrait of the wretched oathbreaker, but overstating his impact on the war feeds into his mythos in a way he never earned and that kinda serves the interests of racist evangelists.
Not really? US combat fatalities in WWII were almost double those in the ACW, and while the Virginian front had the most extensive fighting of the war, it was a fraction of all combat. Lee was a traitor, but he's also not that important. www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
I think you had it right when you initially said it was a rumor that was circulating and that we shouldn't make hasty assumptions either way. I understand why you thought additional reporting was sufficient to confirm, but it was probably still too early. No judgement, just a learning opportunity.
Bonus points if the portrait is slashed as it is left to hang.
I'm not totally against a West Point superintendents portrait in West Point's library, but with the important caveat that a placard conspicuously state that Lee betrayed his oath to the United States and his legacy is stained by the blood of thousands of US soldiers. A cautionary tale to the cadets.
Why is the Bulwark magnifying right-wing agitprop by fixating on anodyne statements and misrepresentations of speeches literally no persuadable voter is paying attention to? This is clout-chasing, not serious analysis. You want message discipline? Focus on the fascism.
Oh yeah, I'm not disputing that, I'm saying these people are deranged from online brain rot and need a hobby besides creating bizarre imaginary solutions.
It's also "if a little white child's dying wish was to say the N word would that be okay?" levels of bizarre hypothetical that reflects only the poser's desires.
Like, setting aside the sweatiness of it all, the value proposition of Trumpcoin is that you're bribing the President. Like, how do you think it's going to perform compared to your coin, Gavin?
Is what you're saying actually in tension with points 1 through 4? The author uses a journalistic lens for the criticisms, but the prescriptions are not particularly journalism-forward.
He's setting himself up to be the frontrunner in Fall 2027 and crash in the polls by February 2028. Everyone wins imo
Abolition is a worthy long-term goal, and it's also not something that can be accomplished unilaterally. Those that sow the wind must reap the whirlwind, lest they benefit from the system they previously undermined.
I'm rooting for him!
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon stays winning.
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Man, these sheltered centrists really need to step outside of their safe spaces...
This is worse, at least they used to have a cool dog in them
Next time she goes to Martha's Vineyard, she should just stay there for good.
Apparently London has both a “Mayor of London” (does normal mayor stuff) and a “Lord Mayor of London” (does civic events in costumes) and like, not to hand it to England, but I think I’ve figured out what we can do with Eric Adams
I think a more charitable interpretation is that they are so fickle that you cannot build a workable strategy around appealing to them. If you alienate your base trying to court them, odds are good they won't even acknowledge your efforts.
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I'm willing to give Warren more grace than most on this, mostly because, unlike military thugs patrolling our streets, control of the Fed is directly tied to papering over damages from tariffs.
If you want to equivocate columnists that draw from a deep body of scholarship to make historically-informed analysis like Bouie and airheaded pundits screaming on the teevee about optics, that's your right I guess. Not sure what you accomplish besides showing that you're a Very Smart Boy, though.
we need to connect the robots who call offering loans to the robots who text asking for campaign money
So is the median voter
How many times do Democrats have to try and fail to pass bipartisan legislation for you people to understand there is no compromise to be had with fascists? This party festers with the stench of ineffectual weakness, and no caucus more so than the New Democrats.
These people must be handled like we handled Julius Streicher. Threats of genocide are not a bargaining position toward a compromise but a declaration of war. If their mission is to destroy a free and fair society, their entitlement to its protections is forefeit.
This is the big takeaway for me. I (1100 on chess.com) really struggle with memorizing the patterns, so I usually just get caught and punished in opening if I try. Other people thrive by having their Fried Liver recipe down pat. The best approach is the one that works for you.
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My favorite example is when then-Lieutenant Ulysses Grant rehearsed the role of Desdemona in an army production of Othello. Pinnacle of "more of a man than you'll ever be; more of a woman than you'll ever deserve"
Radical Republicanism must be the order of the day, even more so than Constitutional principles. They have abandoned the Constitution, let the Constitution provide them no quarter. Depose, disenfranchise, imprison, whatever means necessary to restore our country from tyrants and traitors.
a legitimate defense of "personal liberty" would be calling for Maryland's state police to use force to protect Kilmar Abrego Garcia from deportation. a legitimate defense of "free markets" would call Trump's theft of 10% of Intel the robbery it is.
This is MF Doom
I do appreciate the textures this guy can achieve with layered strikes of the typewriter, but I lol'd
Full up I believe that any SM who volunteers for this duty, or any commissioned officers who help bring it about, should be dishonorably discharged at 12:01PM Jan 20 2029.
Rule of law and respect for the Constitution are dead. When this administration is ousted, return to constitutional norms demands the people who have decreed your rights are forfeit *must* have their rights forfeited in return. They have sown the wind, let them reap the whirlwind.
Why? A mix of provolone and cheddar, sodium citrate for meltiness, and smoke flavor sounds pretty good tbh.
Centrist scolds, like the media at large, get their biggest payday when Trump wins. Savvy pundits milk the shit out of political crisis. They would rather attack the left wing of their own party than the actual opposition because one threatens their revenue stream while the other bolsters it.
By the way, there’s a fourth page I cut for length, but on it you can see that the best-testing and one of the worst-testing messages are nearly identical. In other words YOUR METHODOLOGY IS TRASH.
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any halfway decent journalist should ask Newsom "why is 19 too young to receive lifesaving medical treatment but not too young to date you"
The other reason is that groups like Third Way are political consultants whose profit motive is not winning elections but flattering the donor class with pithy and simplistic proposals. They don't need to actually fix the problem, and indeed, their funding would dry up if they ever did.
Warren was conspicuously not the Democratic nominee, but thank you for explaining why billionaires deserve not a 2% tax on wealth excesding $50M, but to have their obscene wealth summarily confiscated in entirety. Your kind would rather do fascist apologetics than contribute to society.
It's also a weird comparison to make given that Gemini prompts basically amount to Google searches rather than any "revolutionary" AI function. Compared to traditional search algorithms, which do a better job getting you the requested information, LLMs use 10x the energy kanoppi.co/search-engin...
Nobody *invested in this weird fight* goes there. It is a kitschy haven for the median American that no political commentator would be caught dead inside. I for one like it! They have cute little maple/cane syrup bottles to serve with your pancakes.
They are Nazis and should be treated accordingly, but to let conservatism off the hook here when its proponents enabled these people at every turn is a recipe for disaster. Those values were lipstick on the fascist pig and should be treated as such in perpetuity.
Donald the Dove babeyyy
It's fascinating to think about what informed that hostility to evolutionary theory, though. Bryan lived through the advent of Social Darwinism and its justification of rampant abuses of underclassmen in our country. He was wrong about the science, but not wrong about the societal context.
And yet There Can Only Be One Amydog
It sounds like you would really like Tactical Breach Wizards
Has this man never listened to a country music radio station in his life? Maybe I'm just not a cosmopolitan elitist like Brooks, but where I grew up, the environment *was* saturated in Christian Nationalist sermonizing.
People who throw portions of our base to the wolves to strike a tough pose do not inspire hope for that base. Triangulation is a disease that hollows out the traits of leadership with a morally vacuous obsession with focus groups. You want hope? Look to the leaders who show moral courage.
“John Roberts knows exactly what he is doing, and he knows exactly the message he is sending to America.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Pundits are allergic to challenging their priors. If Republicans in the minority were able to leverage racial resentment to get polling advantages on crime and immigration, that advantage must be set in stone forever, never to be questioned again.
Lucifer come get your boy
The one thing that always pops up in the comments of any sort of GLP-1 news, is some idiot who thinks they have the secret to weight loss success, and it's usually the most ableist and ill-informed take you've ever heard
“There are a few ways you could go about controlling a pair of smart glasses with apps, but Meta’s approach is allegedly a ‘neural wristband,’ which is a wearable that reads the electrical signals in your arm for finger- and hand-based inputs. This is where the weirdness comes in.”
Nationalize Meta
It's counterintuitive to be biased towards trump, so i think you are right in your reasoning but wrong with your assessment.
For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views. Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously" No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
I think you would be surprised how badly these people handle basic followup questions to their pithy statements. If you want to see what persistent questions can get people to do to discredit themselves for you, look at Isaac Chotiner's work.
The sums are vast, but not in the context of America's size and economy. Just like the circus in LA, Any fascist fantasy of jack booted suppression of American cities will be dashed upon first contact with reality. That does not, however, relieve us of the responsibility to impose consequences.
Facebook is probably up there with oil and tobacco companies in terms of net harm to human society
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
The best time to treat this guy as a non-entity was when he wrote gentile fanfiction about the Shoah. The second best time is now.
If this guy had more respect for the humanities, maybe he'd be able to come up with a less hokey metaphor that "a few fleas on a noble hound"
I would love to ask him to straightforwardly explain how this rationale is meaningfully different from any other segregationist policy imposed by a government.
The Atlantic should be embarrassed for publishing this hack's lies and misdirection. If this outlet cares more about ideological pandering than basic facts, it has no reason to exist.
lol buddy this says AI = 0
Taking people seriously does not mean pandering to them. The loudest voices about trans participation in sports are right-wing freaks that have demonstrably shifted the goalposts every time leaders acquiesced to them. Taking them seriously requires you to recognize the bad faith!
This feels gross and inappropriate for a lot of reasons, but more to the point, don't you have more informative interviews to do than with the procedurally-generated husk of a dead teenager?
You see, collegiate sentences are long and illegible. The longer and illegibler, the collegiater!
The details indicate this is basically a re-jiggering of the 2018 package found in court to be fraudulent, so this isn't performance-based per se. Still absolutely wild he was allowed to stay CEO, let alone receive such wild incentives. apnews.com/article/tesl...
The dynamic choice structure is what makes it interesting, though. You might as well say D&D is a bad game because it's entertaining enough to watch Dimension 20.
Now, the mechanics aren't particularly *fun*, but this is a poverty and addiction simulator as much as it is a detective game. If the design biased toward fun, it would not be the great game and art that it is.
Oooooh hard disagree with this. The depths of meaning from the skill checks, both as identity signifies and as narrative devices that are equally interesting and meaningful in success and fail States, make for some of the strongest ludonarrative in the industry.
I don't think it's either. He is fundamentally a pay lawyer - individual ethics are secondary to advancing the client's interests. His client is the Republican Party that installed him on the bench. Therefore, Republican interests are his interests. Personal feelings on the matter are irrelevant.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest this guy has attitudes toward women that Kamala Harris would not be able to assuage with a million listservs bsky.app/profile/benw...
Her staff and resources *have* been directed against this administration. So what you're admitting here that your critique amounts to misogynistic clout-chasing rather than anything of substance. Such wisdom, such bravery.
Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do
Democrats love to cry "distraction" when the zeitgeist fails to address their ideal talking points. That talk does not make their talking points more relevant, but it does surrender the initiative. We do not have the luxury of fighting on ground of our precise choosing.
I don't particularly care about the circumstances of a child predator's death half a decade ago, but if lurid speculation of a murderous coverup is what median voter Joe Fuckstick needs to keep the President's participation in these crimes in the national consciousness, then that's fine by me.
This is MAHA rhetoric, and I will not tolerate it. Do not insult the people I love who have lost their lives to cancer by suggesting they somehow brought it on themselves with impurity of diet or spirit, and do not denigrate the people who have been saved by modern medicine as somehow undeserving.
Sure there are some autoimmune defenses, but I don't think you can look at the near-miraculous increases in survival rate for cancer over the last 50 years and reasonably say the methods of curing it are "all wrong".
Cancer research is fun because it basically boils down to "how can I deliver extremely toxic poisons with enough cellular precision to heal somebody?"
Deeply gross and weird behavior, but also just incomprehensible, what is this alleged intellectual powerhouse even trying to say?
