White ppl in general but White men in particular want to be racist, homophobic and sexist with no social stigma. They aim to put the genie back in the bottle.That’s not exclusive to the RW or LW. They’ve had enough of this equality and civil rights. Understand that and this all makes sense.

in a way there is something liberating about seeing all these men who masqueraded as allies say with their whole chests that they don't care about the abuse of women as long as it's one of their guys who does it

A really crucial source of these sexist & anti-feminist sentiments by left/liberal pundits is their insecurity that their soft-handed lives of white collar work mean that they're not real men. They think they can reconcile with masculinity through an aspiration to a kind of brutish, hostile sexism.

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along. katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...

The Nazi tattoo is merely a metaphor for a larger pattern of dishonesty. Platner is a white middle-class journalist's idea of an authentic all-American son of the working class. To actual sons of the working class, he's a fraud. www.editorialboard.com/why-graham-p...

When I first moved to Washington state, they had caucuses, which I had never even heard of at the time…after participating in my first (and only)one, I thought it was an insane way to choose a candidate.The loudest people would talk over, and browbeat less aggressive people.

tonight:

Just because Trump brought RFK Jr. aboard to firm up the kook vote doesn't mean health writers have to keep looking for some kernel of truth in there somewhere.

FACTS 👇🏾

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

Books like this will not get men reading literary fiction again. If these kinds of novels worked, Jonathan Franzen would have led to some kind of male readership renaissance. (And I am not a Franzen hater. The Corrections was brilliant.) Litfic wasn't scooped by women. It was scooped by video games.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️

Look, there are two issues. 1) The timing and explanations didn’t add up. 2) The bigger one isn’t Platner, it’s how so many people dismissed the concerns of core Dem supporters, resorting to gaslighting and ad hominem. The msg was: Winning blue collar white men is more important than losing you.

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

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I wanna know when all the bros are gonna denounce their guru Chomsky?

I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.

Especially upsetting because the guy has been *protected* and will probably survive even this. Plus the correspondence *shows* in plainest language how abuse of women and casual eugenics is the currency of power, access, influence. And yet we're not supposed to study race and gender any more.

Easy: Yelling at Black and Jewish senators or representatives who opposed the compromise. Hard: Working in your blue state for a public option alternative for health insurance. Realizing The People aren't going to rise up for total nationalization.

Trump wants poor people to die because he’s a sadistic psychopath. The more his enemies (women, Democrats, non-whites, whites who look at him funny, everyone else) suffer, the more he gets off on it.

Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

I posted a while ago that women tend to think of the office as “place to do work” and a certain kind of man thinks of it as “happy fun play place.” Recall how many bosses wanted to RTO during COVID because they don’t like being home with their family.

Employment lawyer here: the number of male employers who genuinely believe they should be able to sleep with their female employees and pay working mothers less than working fathers is most of them. They genuinely believe that it is an injustice against them that they might face repercussions.

Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”

“neoliberal” serves the same purpose for many on the left that “woke” does for many on the right, a misappropriated term used as a catchall for things-I-don’t-like

I guess any time a post gets popular enough you’ll start having people reply with, “not all xxx.” And beloved(s), it’s called speaking to a general trend, I do not need to caveat about the complexity of the human condition with every microblog post I make, please be so serious.

Special shout out to her for using the phrase "great white hope" to describe Platner, bc those who know the history of that phrase can see just how well it applies to the mindset of older Democratic electeds.

Let him "do the work" as a city councilman or a state rep. He's not owed a Senate seat. You know -fuck that. Let him send postcards for a woman running for office. Or knock on doors for someone else. Just because he's rich and white and male doesn't mean he gets to LEAD.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

A poster on a message board I frequent has a saying that sticks with me. "There is no horseshoe. There is a broad sentiment among white America that is at best uncomfortable with the idea of minorities holding any political power, and those people exist across the political spectrum."

i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

generally speaking, people should be eating way more candy than they do. next time you find yourself reaching for fresh produce at the grocery store, consider a bag of candy instead

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

NDAs? Dude. Pack it in already.

Exactly.

If you went on a first date with *this* dude & he seemed nice, but you found out about this tattoo (and, the rest of his shitty history) - you would delete his number & move on. Seems simple enough & we should apply this to candidates.

They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.