No, you don’t understand. The Totenkopf was OK because he also hates Israel. Just don’t think about that too hard for too long.

“Listen, Platner and I may have our differences, but we agree about the one most important issue of all—hating the Jews!”

I’m going to say ONE thing about Platner, then move on. A lot of lefties decided that antisemitism isn’t real, that it’s invented by zionists. So even when they discovered a LITERAL NAZI SYMBOL ETCHED SEMI-PERMANENTLY ON THEIR CANDIDATE’S BODY, they couldn’t see what was right in front of them./

And that’s twice as true for a female bartender.

Yep, and likewise like the horny-for-the-IDF crowd. (Definitely a thing, just not so much on Bluesky.) Different team colors, different preferred vessels through which to vicariously live out their macho fantasies, no real principles beyond that.

They’re blockheads for sure but they’re not even necessarily that leftist. Some of them are, but the most consistent thing about Platner stans is the misogyny. They’re guys who think that the Democrats were ruined by too many angry women (yuck), when the rightful leaders are angry men (based).

or women across the board have been screaming about how dude has all the markers of a fucking creep since day 1, which, as usual, went ignored even as evidence piled up

Why don’t more people know about Turkish salgam? Why can’t you get it more places? It’s the perfect drink for us weirdos who like to drink sauerkraut or pickle brine out of the jar and I know you guys are out there.

The Puritans would call this judgement from an angry God and, you know, they’d have a point.

Trump is a poor persons idea or what a rich person is And Platner is a DC highly educated bloggers idea of what a working class white person is

I fear the dirtbags are winning because institutionalist/Schumerite Dems often appear to be too scared of Trump to fight him, too easily convinced to bear-hug Netanyahu and fund police and avoid confrontations involving ICE. The dirtbags are registering with voters as the only pols willing to fight.

I guess I should say something smart about this if I’m going to say anything at all but all I’ve been able to think for years when I see Carville is “How does this mofo look more like one of the aliens from ‘Signs’ every time I see him??”

This part’s killing me! JD Vance is on the steak-and-kraut-every-day diet *for Lent!* Wow, dude, how trad of you. 🤣

It’s so annoying that the MAHA crowd has made it so that *beef tallow* is the rendered animal fat that it’s now easy to obtain everywhere, when it’s actually the one with the fewest useful culinary applications. There were better choices! These people truly can’t do anything useful.

This is like calling “That’s so gay” Millennial slang. I mean, yeah, I guess so. And…the reason for that was because homophobia was rampant, normalized, and only beginning to be seriously challenged.

Yes, Elliot Page should be actively asking for these experiences, which famously always go very well for cis men and about which they have nothing but positive feelings.

a lot of people are very bitter and angry about the Holocaust, not that it happened, but that they were forced to learn about it and told to sympathize with Jews, they will do anything to destroy that feeling

“Platner is a Regular Guy that Regular Guys would have a beer with!” Correct. He’s specifically the guy they’re warning their sisters to stay away from and watching to make sure he doesn’t have *too* many beers because he’s fun buzzed but a real asshole drunk and then shit gets weird and not fun.

Graham Platner is a dilettante adventurer reaping the benefits of both a privileged upbringing and his (unearned) image as an average working class man. I wrote about how these converge to grant him impunity www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn...

But seriously. I’m kinda like this about the Weston Price Foundation but google them. Massie, RFKJr., Andrew Wakefield, every kook and charlatan who has worked to destroy public health and promote health pseudoscience is involved with them. And they’re a huge influence in the tradwife movement.

I’d consider the system pretty broken if childhood vaccination rates were even lower than they are now, some basic vaccines were impossible to obtain, and there were no restrictions on the sale of unpasteurized milk. And that’s what would be happening if every Republican were like Massie.

We are going to see antisemetism as the glue of some effective red-brown coalitions going into 2028. You are seeing the beginnings of it with Platner's footsie with right wing antisemites combined with the conspiratorial way he talks about AIPAC money controlling the government.

People try to break down the Midwest into states and evaluate them accordingly but I maintain that the better way to think of it is to divide it into just two regions: Lake Midwest and Corn Midwest. Lake Midwest generally rules. Corn Midwest generally sucks. There are few exceptions.

Everybody is rightly pointing out that he joined *after* the war had already begun, as a rich kid with many other options. But not enough people are pointing out that he also had been involved in anti-war protest the previous year.

Most parents of a kid with actual ARFID aren’t going to persist in these recs to the point of starving them. They will instead conclude that they don’t work for them. If anyone’s actually persisting to the point of serious harm, there are things going on there that a label on a book won’t fix.

a thing I have learned this week is that it’s difficult to write about parenting because everyone looks at what you wrote and sees their own parents. lots of misplaced anger. I’m not your mom!

My hot take about this discourse is a) it’s good that we’re more aware of things like ARFID and extreme food sensitivities in some kids now and b) extreme cases should not be weaponized to imply that sensible advice about encouraging a balanced diet for kids is worthless, let alone abusive.

If everybody knew my name because of a show I made that I named after famous genocidaires, I’d simply shut the fuck up about anything related to this topic.

I go to trans and queer events. I introduce myself sometimes with my family name. This is a trigger for people, because they fear Zionists. And by that, I mean they fear Jews as theoretically disloyal since we are assumed to be Zionists until clarified. Does Lain have access to clout?

I’m going to plotz if I hear this clown fawningly referred to as an “oysterman” one more time. He is the owner of a small business that sells a luxury product. That’s not “working-class” just because he wears boots. Christ, take a cold shower, people. This is embarrassing.

In general, it’s easy to say that Jews control all the major institutions it you’ve just decided that any institutions that Jews are not and cannot be involved with are definitionally not major. And this is exactly what a lot of people have done.

You guys I just saw a woman on Feeld whose ad said she was a zinester from Poland and had a “no Zionists” tagline and I wanted to match just to tell her that her people are a big reason so many Zionists exist

A lot of bad faith actors cynically pretend to care about sexism and misogyny when it allows them to push transphobia against transwomen. This does not mean that sexism and misogyny are not real problems worth fighting on their own terms. This is a post about antisemitism.

It happened, the thing my mom has been warning me about for months. I spilled a glass of water and my toddler cheerfully exclaimed “Oh shit!” Guys, what am I going to do? Like, sure I could push out a 99th percentile birth weight baby by myself but STOP SWEARING? What am I, Hercules? 😳

Says it all that the writer he flamed wrote the most gentle, balanced piece about the whole thing, and obviously holds Lindy in high esteem. She can’t be dismissed like all of the gleeful takes by people with obvious agendas against feminism, “wokeness”, Lindy herself etc. A hit dog will holler.

“Waaaah but Zionist orgs claim to speak for all Jews, what am I supposed to dooooo???” I dunno, Travis, maybe not allow institutions that you apparently oppose to frame basic reality for you? Are you an anti-Zionist or only when Zionists don’t support your pre-existing biases?

And then they don’t believe you anyway.

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My definition of fragility differs from Kalman-Lamb's. To me, fragility is needing so desperately to please your peers that you would encourage your own degradation and the degradation of your people to gain your peers' approval. Palestinian liberation and Jewish dignity need not be in conflict.

On man, I feel this quote in my bones. What woman hasn’t been this friend before?

thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, for speaking out against vile antisemitism masquerading as anti-zionism, particularly when doing so is both unpopular and unrewarding.

Wr are doing protests and we are getting shot, actually. Pampered softies… 🙄

The comments are full of Americans being like “Okay, what do you want us to do that we aren’t doing?” And these pampered softies being like “Er…protest more? And, um, boycotts or something!” 🙄

My toddler has started saying “Oh goodness!” except she still has trouble with the first consonant and the vowel so she actually says “Oh Dudeness!,” which is better.

Yeah, I agree, this always seemed totally plausible to me. Which of course doesn’t make it actually *true* but I never got what about it seemed like “conspiracy theory” except that, for some reason, it became a disreputable speculation among all but conspiracy theorists. Which is kinda circular.

We’re are out hitting the ground to get signatures; I’m trying to answer all your great questions, but my responses won’t be as timely as I would like. In lieu of that, please visit my website for more info and enjoy this photo of me when I woke up this morning. Shirt by: @foreveryone.bsky.social

This post really is a great example of how a certain, loud portion of the online left has made “Nazi” a completely meaningless word. Which sucks, because, um, we unfortunately actually do really need that word.

I think it's um rather interesting how desperate people are to believe that America can't possibly be invading a country that its conservatives have talked about invading every single year for the past forty six years except if a nefarious foreign force bribed it to.

He’s not even an “oysterman” or whatever image he wants to conjure with that language. He’s not some folksy, weathered working man braving the seas in the boat his grandfather’s built to make a living. He owns a small business that sells a luxury product.

“Working class people often do not graduate college and shiftless New England prep school failsons also often do not graduate college, I cannot tell the difference between these two things.”