I can’t be the only one who wonders if I’ve gone insane and been hallucinating shit the past year or so.

I am admittedly very lapsed in my Catholicism, but my understanding was that confessed sins were not to be discussed in the national press.

donald ,,,, i agree

the president talks about how he could have kissed the very strong construction worker, who was very handsome. the construction worker came up to the president and said, "i want to kiss you so badly." the president lightly chuckles and claims he said no thank you.

the president fantasizes about the time he almost got to kiss "a very powerful strong man"

Trump threatens us with a good time: "They'd like to pack the court. They want to put on 21 people. Pack the Supreme Court. Maybe they should do it. Maybe we would be better off if they did it."

what he means is that Dan Bliss has a Jewish last name, which means, in the eye of a Nazi, that he’s a pedophile. It’s a dog whistle. Not a particularly subtle one either. Not certain why it went over your head

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

"do you think 6'5 australian harvard ranked number two terachad androgenic will avenge clavicular appalling framemog to pure romanian genetic mega framemog ASU frat leader or will he be jestermaxxed again into a severe cortisol spike demoting his PSL to sub three"

guys what if he packs the court

And again: I've watched leftist (un-scotsman-ably so) Twitter circles I was once marginally part of let this creep in because the loudest voices said that "Jewish feelings" don't matter now and jokes that are "mean to Israelis" need to be normalized Guess what, they all post like groypers now

There is no point in asking groypers not to protocols-post. Decolonial academics, ahem, on the other hand, *ought* to understand that sharing groyper content is a problem, but a significant number did not and do not care

I'm sorry but I didn't corrode my brain not to be able to opine on this with knowledge: on this the distinction is *completely meaningless*. In antisemitic conversations on Twitter you can go smoothly from anarchist to Marxist to demsoc to centrist to groyper to natsoc (in any order) without knowing

the vast majority of mainstream reporting on trans issues is driven by twitter-addicted freaks who have a personal vendetta against my entire demographic and think kiwifarms users just have reasonable concerns about the state of free speech on the internet

My main interaction w/ Ben was when he repeatedly used a chart but cut off the footnotes that explained how the numbers he was pointing to were, in all likelihood, just double-counting. His response? Deleting specific posts where I had replied to him. He’s an activist pretending to do journalism.

Benjamin Ryan openly admits that his reporting on trans issues is animated by personal bias against someone who was mean to him online. Ben is not capable of reporting on this issue objectively, and yet the New York Times and other outlets repeatedly let him do just that.

Taught a class on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion today, and every one of my students said they've seen content on TikTok that comes directly from it, without knowing before today what the source was.

Gaaaah I just realized another one of them is Canadian, lives in Ottawa At this point Ottawa + Communist seems to be as indicative of wanting to exterminate Jews worldwide as membership in the Nazi party

Interesting position rn where Iran could wipe most of the US operational air force within about 20 minutes with a preemptive barrage of <100 missiles w/submunition warheads. All those aircraft are just parked in Jordan, Saudi, and Qatar. They won't, though.

meanwhile on the other site some dude with 47k followers is so mad about I & @jamellebouie.net saying gender affirming surgery for minors isn't a thing - particularly my misuse of literally - that he has been @'ing me about it for over 24hr (also he's gotten like 26 likes because lol, dead website)

my wife needs a new PC because the one I built 7 years ago broke and I’m currently checking my mailbox every day to check if my tax refund has come in so I can grab one of the last prebuilts in stock at Microcenter like I’m fighting for a spot on the embassy helicopter in Saigon. I love technology

"I am special, I am immune to The Algorithm, it will not change me" you are not special and it will make you worse you should leave

wow who could have seen this coming I’m sure it’s not related to the fact that social services don’t exist anymore and every interstate highway is littered with potholes

we have no idea where the truth social posts are coming from and who posts them

If Biden had forgotten which country one of his ambassadors was assigned to it would have dominated the news for a month

Am I the only person in the world who actually understands what the legal status of Taiwan is? I didn’t think it was that hard tbh it’s pretty standard “overthrown dynasty establishes rump state on the frontier” type stuff it’s happened like 4 times before

I stopped caring about island chains and sixth generation fighters and whatnot when I realized this was the most anyone on either side of the Pacific had considered such things.

the enormously funny fact is that if Taiwan drops their claim to the owning the mainland, this would be seen as an affront to the PRC

The official US policy over Taiwan is about as comprehensible as the Schleswig-Holstein Question was. To misquote Palmerston, only three people have ever understood it, Richard Nixon, who is dead, a Chinese professor, who has gone mad, and I, who have forgotten.

I think what’s happening is that leftists became so much better at producing art than right wingers that that just kind of gave up and decided to spend all their time yelling about it on the internet instead

a… a what? a what???

leave it to Jeffrey Toobin to be like 2 years behind the curve AND ignore major scholarship on the matter

tbh i think a lot of this comes down to the hollowing out of state capacity in global nations neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical

i jokingly refer to my politics as "red abundance" primarily because i'm a social democrat who primarily thinks we should be building things people want to be part of a grander narrative, i feel

Recall the majority opinion in Plyler the justices pointedly said they wanted to avoid creating and underclass of people who wouldn't have a public education due to a legal status beyond their control. And now HF wants to go back to that. Fog horning racism.

"no border control" they would send men to hunt you down & return you to your lord, & would mutilate you for your insolence. You would be arrested by local authorities for traveling on any lord's domain without their imprimatur of one of his peers.

this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way

FLCL

Whenever I think of live service gaming and balancing, I think of this comic

I love journalistic sexism

FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.

I remember a while back PhilosophyTube had a video about indigenous practices and said "unlike Abrahamic religions, indigenous faiths are [listed like twenty things that are true of Judaism]"

The promise was that by privatizing Judaism in a Protestant sense, Jews could become equal citizens and integrated into the polity. The fact that this failed to reduce racialized anti-Jewish bigotry is a big part of what led many Jews to define themselves as a national group and turn to nationalism.

Again, it is worth noting that it is THE TRANSPHOBES who are locked into gender stereotypes, and all their criticism of trans people for doing that is PROJECTION.

This is a good thread, but as a Jewish Studies scholar, one of the major points I try to make to my students is that Jewish peoplehood contains elements of religion, ethnicity, and nationality, without totally fitting into any of these boxes.

all of those were done by different countries. one of them was Sumer

god this drives me mad in the UK; hearing transphobic arguments from older liberals *that are identical to the 1990s conversation they were on the right side of*.