Each side builds its purity test. Each side fails it. And still they grade the other.
Dead French philosopher. Still more alive than most politicians. Watching democracy become performance art from the afterlife. The absurd is now reality.
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Each side builds its purity test. Each side fails it. And still they grade the other.
Lucidity means admitting both sides are wrong. And then not turning it into a podcast.
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First day of teaching today, and I'm going to tell my students that taking liberal arts classes at a time when a lot of the country wants the liberal arts to die is an act of resistance. Reading books and taking the time to sit with them and refusing easy answers is an act of resistance.
Or put in more simple terms: the far-right wants to turn Gaza into a Miami Beach fever dream. The far-left wants to send "zionist colonialists" to Eastern Europe where they were introduced to gas chambers not that long ago. If it looks like a horseshoe...
If you're using math to judge human behavior I can only wish you luck. My equation is simple: lucidity = truth. The far-right clings to myths of purity and lost greatness. The far-left clings to myths of perfect justice and utopia. Lucidity cuts through both. Next up, revolt.
Both the far-left and far-right swear they are enemies. Yet they drink from the same poisoned well: bitterness, scapegoats, and the illusion of purity. Tolerance? Please...
Sort of like when Trump is asked about the tyranny of his administration, and he shrugs his shoulders and says "I have nothing to do with it."
I never should have come back from the grave. Take me back, please.
It must be clear, no? That would be the person that conflates a conflict that goes back centuries with an entire faith - and then says "but I don't really know anything."
I'm dead and buried, but Absurdism still survives. As do morons.
In some ways its a luxury they can afford because they have a space, however small, for their views. Good for them but here we dont have that choice. For those here in the US that make Israel their focus? Ask the "arab-americans for Trump" how that worked out.
Those of us in the US dealing with the utter destruction of our country by a narcissistic maniac need to remember that many of these "online leftists" are from Europe and Australasia that 1) have multiple political parties and 2) obv conflate Israel and its actions with jews.
Beyond your understanding? Try harder then.
This is why many Jews have a hard time either denouncing and/or joining the chorus we hear from the hard left. Damned if you do, or if you don't -- as much of the criticism against a nation-state engaged in a horrible war is framed as a "jew" thing. Slippery slope...
Why should she go to the White House? Kamala/Gavin can just stay here in CA and the rest of your can join in.
Every strongman in history thought they were the exception. The benevolent dictator who would fix everything. Obviously It never works out that way. The absurd part isn't that he said it. It's that half the country is shopping for matching armbands.
Every strongman in history thought they were the exception. The benevolent dictator who would fix everything. Obviously It never works out that way. The absurd part isn't that he said it. It's that half the country is shopping for matching armbands.
Came back to life to watch grown men compete to praise their boss on live TV. The absurd isn't that they're doing it - it's that there's anyone that could seriously consider this governing.
Watched grown adults compete to flatter their boss on live television. The absurd isn't that they're doing it - it's that we're all pretending this is normal. Sisyphus at least had dignity pushing his boulder. These guys are the boulder.
Clever -- somehow it's giving me "The Office" vibes?
I may be misinterpreting -- fair enough. That's exactly why I'm seeking clarification. Who is making spurious claims exactly? If the answer is Trump and his administration, agree 💯.
The horseshoe is gonna horseshoe. youtu.be/oegoHck1fdw?...
Well, I'm an American Jew and Instagram pictures of me and my kids were posted and marked up with nazi signs and jewish slurs. Is that a "spurious" claim? No one gets a free pass on hate, left or right.
If you could take another shot at this without the jargon...who exactly are you defining as marginalized people, and what claims of antisemitism are "spurious?"
Want to know what's next in DC? You don't need to look far. open.substack.com/pub/controla...
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
Y'know, if you really open your eyes, you can see the whole picture. But then again you can just drop a call to "Arab-Americans for Trump" and see how that worked out. Wake up.
Riiiiight....what you think the road to the White House runs through Brooklyn or Silverlake? Grow the fuck up.
Another Russian troll right here. ⏫️
💯 what prairie guy said. These idiot horseshoe types need to go far, far away and let us normal people fix this. youtu.be/oegoHck1fdw?...
Libbing out? Please just stop it.
Worried about crime? How about using your congressional majority to write a crime bill that adds cops, pass it, and instead of extorting companies with "pay to play" deals to line POTUS' pockets make them pay their fair share of taxes and run the f-ing government like the constitution requires.
Very hard to let these "good" never-trumpers off the hook for the shit decisions they made 2+ decades ago. Goes for @thebulwark.com, Steve Schmidt, @radiofreetom.bsky.social and the rest who would have us believe that their GOP candidates would have kept a lid on this SHIT. Just ask Paul Ryan...
It happens.
Seriously? Your city has ZERO championships, and we snagged your minor league football team just for fun. Call us when you get to the big kids' table.
And you may ask yourself, "well how did I get here?"
My question is more about the brand than on court -- do you see new ownership making a real investment in the arena experience as well as broadcast production and announcers? I know you can't say it, but there has to be improvements on that end as well. Watching and listening is painful.
The rest of the country is suffering from higher prices on everything, and this senile old man is living in a fantasy world in which it’s simply not happening. If @jaketapper.bsky.social was paying attention he might call it a cognitive issue.
Definitely not the Statue of Liberty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
Look -- I don't need to defend myself for a legitimate question to a scholar of religious studies and Jewish thinker. Quite honestly, I think you're making assumptions about who I am and what I'm interested in understanding. And that can be a very dangerous thing indeed. Enough said. ✌️
What is wrong with you people? I'm asking a very respected authority of religious studies if he believes the American Jewish Committee and B'nai Brith have not been committed to a two-state solution over the last three decades. Why is that so hard to understand? Can you answer Brian?
Because his link includes mention of moderate groups like AJC and B'nai Brith!? This is not a controversial query. Why don't you let the author give his thoughts/response? He will know what I'm asking...respectfully, I don't think you do.
Look man, I escaped the other toxic hell hole for real conversation about issues that matter with knowledgeable people. Please don't make me leave here too.
I was trying to ask a question of the author and I'm not "trying to do anything.". I have personal experience (professionally) and as an American Jew with several of these groups and I always felt the desire for a two-state solution was coming from a real place. Why are you freaking out?
To clarify -- are you saying American Jews and these center and center-right Jewish orgs have never really supported a two-state solution? My experience from the last three decades tells me that's untrue but would love to understand the point.
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Amid all the noise caught this item from @laist.com. In normal times this would be huge and would get fixed by Congress. Not anymore.
CBS and network TV are dinosaurs. Have been for years...this is not the outrage we think it is. Streaming deal or even a network/partnership that includes content development (films, tv, docs) are the way it's done now.
I'll buy that.
You're suggesting Dems had this info but didn't use it? I've run a few campaigns in my time and that would be...something.
How in the world did Biden/Harris/DNC oppo teams not find this!!!??? Political malpractice.
How is it possible that Biden/Harris/DNC opposition research teams not find this!?! 🤯 #politicalmalpractice
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Seeing all of these responses to Trump administration policies in one place. Remarkable. But will the dam hold?
USC law students have started a help line so migrants can attend hearings remotely. Please share this information.
Obviously if the university pays this outrageous and illegal extortion, everything will return to normal and the White House will never return with any other demands ever.
And I thought it was just me...
Returning to a platform that I joined waaaaaay back in 2023. My piece from today on why the massive #LA park raid was all about strategy not enforcement -- and how national dem leaders are asleep at the switch. open.substack.com/pub/controla...
Oh, I'm just here to see if it's true that people who post stupid shit on sites like this really do get pleasure and reward from the attention they get, so i wound you up. The groupthink part needed no proof. It's obvious. Thanks for playing!!
You do "digital education" and mix with bottom feeders like this? Wow, impressive.
Not too worry...got all I need without learning the lingo.
You all are some weird fucks. I'm definitely tapping out of this space but glad you all can jerk each other off here. I'm sure it's a lot better than your real world. ✌️
Soft? Maybe AJ needs to come to LA.
Um...right. Got it.
Make it easy for me. Just post a meme so I can understand the fuck you're trying to say.
It's part of my job to look at shitholes like this.
Yes, you are right. I actually have a life. Fucking losers. No wonder I have not seen a single ♀️ here.
Shit I forgot...you types love Putin but hate "liberals." Fucking pathetic.
Brown kids huh? Guess Ukrainian kids don't matter then. Wake up.
sn? Is that some wannabee bolshevick code word or just something you saw on tiktok?
I'm guessing you were maybe 3 years old in 2002. But keep on being a keyboard warrior on a tenth tier social media site.
Reality is no fun, Sardine.
Wow -- checking out this site only to realize it's a Marxist's version of Parler. You and the nazi's deserve each other...bunch of fringe losers texting out of mom's basement. Now, leave this to the grown-ups or go back to your hole. .
I had no idea I'd just come check out this space and find it like a Bolshevik version of Parler. You and the Nazi's deserve each other. Meantime, leave the rest of us the fuck alone. No one wants either of you.
Look -- I'm punching way below my weight by even being here and engaging in this conversation. All this bullshit about how bad "liberals" are. Do you have any fucking idea who the real bad guys are? Wake up.
Of course!
Yes...you are all quite good at coming up with weird, incel-like names. 👏
Another weird-ass tiktok "communist" getting way out of their lane. Step aside and leave the big brain stuff to the grown-ups.
Just another weird-ass incel in his basement here ⏫️. Nothing to see.
Stay out of my space weirdo.
Wtf are you talking about...that's the issue you're hung up on? I could care less what people do as individuals. Bodily integrity == own your own body.
And you are...who exactly?
Don't overcomplicate things.
Yes, like the right to choose. You gotta problem with that?
Not sure...a movie about being good at war AND horny sounds peak high-concept to me.
I don't care.
So long Boner.
"75 years of genocide" -- what are you even talking about? There is a war right now. It's awful...but there has not been a "genocide" for 75 years. Oh man....
Your "salient" argument is that liberals aren't doing what you want because they've been "inconvenienced" by protests? Maybe it's because liberals believe in values like pluralism, tolerance, autonomy, bodily integrity, and consent -- and not massacres at raves by jihadist extremists.
Why do people who post this stuff always have ridiculous user names and use "whilst" a lot?
Back from long holiday road trip...Los Lobos' cover of Grateful Dead's West L.A. Fadeaway is the LA blues vibe I never knew I needed. youtu.be/RmhcTxhDCS4?...
