I wish headphones were cheap enough for me to passive-aggressively hand them out to people on the subway who aren't using them.

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Me and the pin

It feels like mainstream media has spent the last 10 years taking the official stance that when blatant liars tell blatant lies, you just gotta believe them cause what else can you do! 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I've heard many stories of people doubling down on their belief in a rapture or similar event when it fails to materialize. Are there any stories about people coming to their senses and deradicalizing? Is the doubling down more common, or do we just hear about it more often bc it's so remarkable?

(me getting raptured) I hope they have homestuck in heaven (the process reverses and I’m left here on earth instead)

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The subtext of this whole Tylenol thing is "if the mother doesn't suffer enough pain, she must be punished," right?

I don't know why there's already a White Stripes song about this, but there is.

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

Stop trying to argue with the logic of the right. The right purposefully employs inconsistent logic to specifically in order to make people show it is above consistency. It is purely about dominance. And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.

Trying to sleep is like trying to swim to the bottom of a pool while wearing a life vest. I can go under briefly, but I get pulled right back up.

I see why people would assume this, because the reality—it's just an outdated system that creates a lot of work for a lot of people with little to no benefit—doesn't seem to make sense.

lol this is like a Creative Writing 101 prompt about two characters from the same hometown with different motivations

"Charlie Kirk did politics the right way" and "we all have to live together" are mutually exclusive beliefs.

A LANTERNFLY WAS IN MY HOUSE AND TOUCHED MY HUSBAND

I think even more than this is that they know that if Democrats nominally take power in the future - it will be DEMOCRATS who will let them off the hook and start bleating on about bipartisanship as they kick their own voters in the teeth. What is there for the GOP to fear? NOTHING.

💯 this is how it was and this is why I'm not afraid now. I watched people protest to their dying day.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

The republican debaters' job isn't to make a good argument or to win a debate, it's to make sure that an average republican who believes dumb shit doesn't feel bad about believing dumb shit.

Protect but not bind, bind but not protect!

This is what I said about Kirk-style conservative "debate" culture a few months ago, and I still believe it.

Imagine being a Democratic politician and being so ineffectual and non-threatening to fascism that the government goes after Jimmy Kimmel before you.

Strangers who respond to your personal problems with "I have a problem too—there's a freaking Cheeto in the White House!" are smarter and less gullible than Ezra Klein.

You gotta give them credit, declaring "comedy is now legal" then outlawing comedy is a pretty funny bit

i hope nobody still accepts the bullshit "to appeal to more voters" framing. rich people are spending money to push the politics they favor, it has absolutely nothing to do with electability

I remember the horror I felt in 2020 when I realized conservatives were so committed to rejecting reality that they could die of COVID and still not believe it was real. Having the same feeling about Ezra Klein right now.

How is this supposed to work for me when the proposition being put forward is that Black people lack the intellectual capacity for public life and not enough of us are in prison?

All I can say is, no matter what they do, they can never make me hate my neighbor.

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

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For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

Chris Van Hollen flew to El Salvador to get one of his constituents out of a gulag! What has Hakeem Jeffries done for his constituents?

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reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Saying people should be stoned to death is not "civil" just because you don't personally stone them to death.

I'm honestly surprised by the degree to which everyone in the media establishment has completely invented a fake Charlie Kirk in their heads. They truly have to ignore everything he ever said and see him as just "a white guy in the media, like me!"

Genuine question: Did Selma Blair and Kirsten Chenoweth actually watch the content he put out, or did they just assume he "used logic to have dialogue" based on media whitewashing? (Not familiar with either celeb's politics, just wondering how many ppl are being unwittingly gulled into this belief)

Whatever this means, the globe is united against it.

Conservatives aren't hypocrites about free speech, they're liars. They've always believed they should be able to advocate violence with impunity but it should be illegal to say, "I'm trans." What's wild is they convinced liberals it's genuinely nobler to tolerate Nazis than to protect their victims.

This is such an apt comparison! If you wouldn't mourn for David Duke, why would you expect people to mourn for Charlie Kirk?

Republicans: The liberal elites destroying our country should be hanged for treason. The liberal elites: Omg, are you a Republican? I'm such a huge fan of your guys' work! Can I get an autograph?

"Practicing politics the right way": Lie. Advocate violence. Destroy the lives of the subhuman scum you hate. Unless, of course, you're not a white supremacist. Then you should forgive and hold your tongue. Be the bigger person! You wouldn't want to be uncivil, would you?

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

Of course Gavin Newsom wants to "continue his work"! He literally had him on his podcast!

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.