look, i just don't think we are required, as a society, to tolerate the presence of these people among us, actually. there's no principle of liberal tolerance that these guys are entitled to

we, as a society, have evolved beyond the need for the washington wizards

the basic problem with marx as filtered through the american consciousness is that americans are fatally poisoned by jeffersonianism so everything gets read through the lens of whether it makes it easier or harder to be a yeoman smallholder

farmers are a reactionary class who should be driven off the land and into the cities

hey quick question what percentage of the population is employed in farming now vs 100 years ago?

is this good

cycling glorious, undefeated, all other lifeforms eat shit

it's me, i'm the people who assert it. not because i believe it but just because it seems like a fun thing to say

i am always saying this

wow you don't say

they used to call this bachelor chow, everything old is new again

i'm always saying this: liberal democracy is not obligated to tolerate people whose political project involves destroying liberal democracy

bibi is just descriptively correct and the next dem needs to just sever all ties with israel. defense, trade, all of it. even thinking on utterly cynical grounds: israeli political leadership and overall politics is overtly opposed to the american left-of-center project

while it is certainly true that merely being published in the times does not indicate the newspaper's own support for that position, it is nevertheless also true that the times leadership absolutely does support all those things in the image

i do genuinely wonder when, or perhaps whether, liberal american jews will finally realize that outside of ethnicity and occasionally religion we have basically nothing in common with israeli society

everyone knows holden bloodfeast but it's important to remember that tv talking heads are actually the people who are horniest for endless war

an intractable problem with american foreign policy that both encompasses and stretches well beyond donald trump is that almost literally everyone in the top echelons of gov't believes that america can kill anyone for no reason other than that it wants to do so and can and that this is good actually

they cannot be a "shield" because there is no legal reason or justification to attack anything inside Iran in the first place

oh did you hear that democrats are in the minority? that they can't do anything? that they're smol beans and anyway it's the weekend? anyway this is why leadership's mealy-mouthed bullshit is Good and Savvy

the reporting on this insane, illegal war is so fucking slavish to the administration

republicans be like "under the shah Iranian women had rights, which to be clear we also oppose and are doing our best to destroy both domestically and intentionally"

here's a thought: what if you took this insufferable above-it-all process smarm and shoved it up your ass

mr trump sir please I beg you give me a chance to vote for war useless fucking loser, I would eat my ballot before ever voting for him again

got put in twitter jail for mouthing off to fetterman so please direct some thought energy towards his brain in the hopes of doing scanner shit asap

extremism in defense of liberty is no vice

"unrelated" says who?

this didn't catch on unlike "everyone is 12" theory but I postulated long ago that everyone is actually agnes skinner from the bagboy strike episode, demanding both all the groceries in one bag and also that the bag not be heavy

inter alia the "consequentialist" case for billionaires is supposed to be that they're some sort of amazing capital allocators but there's just no evidence that this is true, they allocate capital on the basis of their own weird idiosyncracies and prejudices

any democratic leaders want to say anything about how this is bad?

I think we need to take seriously the possibility that merely speaking English causes bad politics because the language itself is intellectually debilitating

this might be an unpopular take but i actually don't believe that liberal societies are obligated to tolerate people like this in their midst. you can believe these things but there's no reason that a liberal polity should let you spread them far and wide

but i had it on excellent authority that if you donated more than $200 to political campaigns you were effectively a megadonor who was disastrously driving the party leftward. how this can be

nice, hook it right up to my veins

tbh if you don't loathe the Dem leadership with every fiber of your being then you're not really serious about politics or winning or anything else that matters

one of the most consistent pathologies of the right is that they are simply unable to conceive of the possibility that someone else has a different set of values that they hold dear, and are willing to act on those beliefs

it's because chuck schumer likes ice and what it does, he just wishes it would do it more discreetly

we gotta put this guy on a raft and push it out into the ocean

"i am too stupid to be allowed to serve in elected office" is an interesting gambit, looking forward to seeing how it works out for tom

get in the fucking hairshirt and shut the fuck up

it's interesting to imagine what it must be like to be adam serwer and having these people be your colleagues

conservatism is incompatible with civilization. right wingers are neither intellectually nor psychologically fit for it

where does frank wilhoit go to get his nobel prize for ending the entire field of political science in a single internet comment on a barely-read academic blog?

they're too rich to care about anything other than ruling over the population as feudal lords which is why individual people simply cannot be allowed to accumulate this kind of wealth

i've been saying this

the explicit goal of all of republican policymaking is to cause mass death

yes. they are cowards and idiots

they want the deportation regime. they just don't like how in-your-face it is, but they're fundamentally in favor of a domestic terror unit that harasses non-white people

i am always saying this

notwithstanding the fact that there's more juice to be squeezed from attacking trump on immigration there's the minor point of having an actual fucking moral compass and denouncing things that are wrong on the grounds that they're wrong

uncritical support for comrade stancil in his war against ice and also against that dumb piece of shit who is genuinely on the most repugnant posters on this website, a complete toady for do-nothing establishment dems