one of scott adams best posts

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

Those social media smear campaigns against women, especially queer women, laid the path to people celebrating the murder of a queer woman by a man in a uniform who called her a “fucking bitch” afterward. They unlocked the entitlement and rage to cheer gender-based violence from the online sidelines.

This. We can break the videos down frame-by-frame, but as long as they show a woman who rejected the authority of a fascist state, fascists will say she deserved it—and so, in their view, does anyone who isn't actively assisting the fascist state in body or, importantly, belief.

I keep thinking about how a young woman DoorDash driver was charged and hauled into court for recording and posting evidence of her customer sexually harassing her, while nothing is happening to the droves of men using Grok to sexually harass women and children. The institutions are pro-perpetrator.

the ICE officer calling a woman he just murdered a “fucking bitch” is visceral, but imo the most material new information in the latest video is that she very clearly turns the wheel away from the officer right before it happens

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

Abusing women--shooting them, sexually degrading them, defiling their corpses--is a major unrecognized force drawing men into participation in MAGA politics. Remember Marimar Martinez, shot 5x last Fall in Chicago for trying to drive away from DHS? Guys who voted for a rapist want to shoot women.

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

feels bad being governed and policed by the stupidest people to ever live, every single one of whom believes that the moment they step into the limits of any city with mass transit they will be hunted for sport

“And it goes like: You’re a terrorist! And you’re a terrorist! Everybody, everyone can be a terrorist!” Die Shiny, “Bottom Feeders” youtu.be/zZ9sv_ts7tA?...

Sigh. The NPR national news brief at the top of the hour mentioned the shooting and simply cited the DHS statement.

I truly don't think mainstream journalists in the U.S are prepared to cover state violence

MPD said they turned the investigation over to the FBI. Why in the sam fuck would you do that?

A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead

It’s DARVO. ICE is the aggressor in every city they enter. Any claim of “self-defense” is a lie. The reason they rush to say those words first is because they don’t want the people they’re terrorizing to be able to use them.

So, a Minneapolis hotel said they didn't welcome ICE agents to their property. A couple days later, ICE agents shoot and kill someone in Minneapolis.

For my newsletter this morning, I called for a ban on Grok after X, the child porn app formerly known as Twitter, started removing the clothes of women and girls in photos posted on the site. www.burnsnotice.com/grok-the-chi...

Donald Trump is doing extrajudicial war the right way. by Ezra Klein

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

@warren.senate.gov just co-sponsored KOSA again 🤦🏽‍♀️ You CANNOT claim to be an ally to the LGTBQ community and support this awful bill. Your office blatantly ignored our Boston coalitions pleas, so let’s see how you feel about those phones being melted. CALL HER!

KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through. CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM —no KOSA —do not repeal Section 230 —no online digital ID laws —no age verification laws CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet

It's weird how noting a guy's publicly awful comments on rape and rape victims gets you labeled "shrill." As if we reserve that adjective for one particular type of individual! But who???

If I didn’t know what DARVO was I think I’d actually be losing my mind right now 🫠

I’ll never possess the level of gall or presumptuousness it would take to tell a stranger what they “have to” do. Like no, they don’t actually! Perhaps they should, but even that isn’t a stranger’s business. Unsolicited advice is bad enough from family, all the more insufferable from strangers.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

Hey, you in the LGB but not T crowd Feel good? Feel proud?

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Remember when these guys ran a completely fabricated story about trans kids sourced to a single bigot who worked at St Louis Children’s Hospital and it got so much traction that they ended a bunch of programs for trans kids because of all the bomb threats

do you think theres no eviction yet because julie's been busy prepping for the rapture #bb27

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

They are literally canceling culture

genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people

The whole thing with Charlie Kirk really does confirm what I’ve long suspected about right wing assholes: They want it to be illegal not to like them. It’s the same reasoning as incels but for everyone’s attitudes towards them, not just women.

My dad used to get mad at me for saying mean (read: true and accurate) things about Morning Joe and Chuck Todd. Now he gets mad at me for saying mean (again: true and accurate) things about lib newsfluencers instead, citing subscriber numbers in defense as if those count as credentials. 🫠

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

in the US conservative mindset cishet conservative white men are top of the hierarchy and thus it is bad to shoot them, but also they are allowed to shoot people, so if one kills another it's just a wash. cancels out. thoughts and prayers, nothing to see here

*watching innocent people rapidly acquire the cursed knowledge that has driven me to madness* oh no

insane that people are getting in trouble for just quoting Charlie Kirk point blank. many of these people are not even expressing support for what happened to him, just quoting him & questioning double standards in how we respond to violence. we live in a far-right culture

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

it's just a matter of what type of "political violence" you can ignore or justify and what is visible to you

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isn’t a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators