But if you don't HAVE a line that you will actually commit to and hold, then what are you doing? What is even the point of politics beyond a corrupt desire to reward your friends and punish your enemies?

Platner crossed one of mine. I will not support candidates are or plausibly might be neo-nazis. I don't want them in my government, and if they are in my government I don't want to be in a political party that welcomes them. If that's not your line, OK. We have different priorities.

Yeah, because the obvious solution to an administration filled with Nazis is to elect more Nazis. 🤦‍♂️ Kids, this is why you should be paying attention in class, instead of under the bleachers huffing paint with your friends. Don’t turn out like this guy.

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“They have an amoral, self-centered, abrasive, unapologetic lout who gives them permission to be their worst selves, why can’t WE have that???” Because we’re supposed to be the fuckin’ good guys. Next question.

No, I will not shut up about Graham Platner, thank you.

Wait fuck I’m actually sorry, this was entirely my bad I confused you with a different account going by (adjective) kitty. Take full accountability for this mixup my apologies for casting aspersions

Mommy's boy failson war criminal = regular people, apparently.

Maybe don't do this shit, people. If you're going to accuse someone of saying something heinous, have the self respect and conviction to explain your reasoning.

Huh, where have we seen this kind of impotent thuggery before.....

PSA: All the "progressives" blaming Genevive Macdonald for speaking about Platner's awfulness, rather than Platner for being awful, are 100% like maga ranting "hang all the leakers who discussed trump's crimes" instead of condemning trump's crimes,

Genuinely, I also feel bad for Platner's wife. Because having chosen to run, he decided to re-victimize his wife, because while he is an almost breathtakingly stupid man (albeit somehow not as stupid as he wants people to think), he for damned sure knew this stuff would come out.

“[T]his image is being exploited by elites who want to move the Democrats away from being a party of multiracial pluralism to one that serves the interest of the only Americans who are supposed to count.” That’s a bingo!

"Why didn't the wife... " Let me stop you right there and suggest you shut the fuck up.

You're backing a nazi, you don't get to whine that he sucks

Platner has never disavowed it; he has only claimed (in ways that belie any kind of actual belief) that it was a mistake and we're all fucking "retarded" for asking about it.

Disregard for a moment that in some fashion, politics is a popularity contest for literally everyone. A leftist crying about this is absurdly funny given 1) their entire political project for the last 10 years has been to destroy popular women; and 2) boy are they fuckin' mad about it.

FOX News brain strikes again.

This also could help for the (I think inevitable, but I could be wrong!) obvious play Republicans are gonna pull in trying to make Platner the national face of the Democrats.

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And I'm allowed to not pretend you have any humanity since you chose both "worse genocide" and "more genocide" with a whole fucking side helping of "fuck everyone." You ghoulish bitch.

Here’s Becerra, testifying before Congress under oath, defending trans people and their access to gender-affirming care. But Steyer didn’t pay Erin to tell the truth.

As a Red Wings fan who grew up in the nineties and was at the March 26, 1997 Hockeytown brawl, finding out Claude Lemieux passed has definitely brought up some mixed feelings

i can't believe you'd disagree with me on this website when you know that i, like the statistically average american, am shitting myself and on fire right now

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Notably -- and unsurprisingly -- nowhere in the video Erin put in her article does Becerra actually say what she claims he says.

Or we could go back to their original sobriquet: Trans-Eliminationist Radical Feminist. It'd certainly be more honest and in line with their actual desires.

Hmm nice, now tell this to all of your fellow leftists glazing Tucker Carlson and MTG or we know you're full of shit.

The people who now embrace MTG will never get over the fact that Kamala Harris got **THE FUCKING CHENEYS** to bend the knee for absolutely no policy concessions.

You'll never guess what it is Luna thinks we need "a LOT more of" in society.

Antisemites get really mad when you refuse to believe they actually give a shit about Palestinians.

Anyone who unironically cries about "Blue MAGA" is a Donald Trump supporter. I don't make the rules. I just observe them.

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Some of us-- even though we desired to be parents, decided we were better off not being parents because of options/lifestyles/breaking trauma cycles. And that is ok.

Yes precisely. This is why I keep underlining to professional byline-havers that the actual fascists *does not care* about second order notions of free debate or open-mindedness; because they are simply trying to take advantage of those notions to secure credibility and power.

very few people who become substantially overweight can "just lose weight" long term prior to GLP1s. now, they can. the studies back this up in both directions. the entire calculus changed. it used to be the doctor talking about your weight was basically just being a dick, now they're not.

yes, and before GLP1s it was pretty pointless to bring up weight loss because diet and exercise truly are pretty difficult to maintain for people who are metabolically unbalanced, so it did basically constitute harassment/unhelpful ego damage now we have meds that change that

"it used to be the doctor talking about your weight was basically just being a dick, now they're not" this is actually such a fucking game changer. because it used to be browbeating "you need better morals" bs, but now there's actually a "yeah, this is a problem, let's sort it out" path

I love when someone tries to pretend to care SO MUCH about trans people, only to instantly turn around and prove they're just using us as a cudgel with the kind of speed that would cause actionable whiplash.

Hi, liberal trans person here. If you plan to donate to Molly Shah or one of the bot accounts she "verifies" as being somehow real, please do me the massive favor of instead sending your money to me since you want to pretend that this is about trans rights and not the fact that Molly's a con artist

There's nothing remotely unsubstantiated that being lighter weight is healthier than being fat, and I say this as someone who is very much not thin and who could really do with some weight loss. That doesn't mean I'm morally bad or otherwise should be treated poorly; but come the fuck on.

X is fun for you because you aren't one of its owner's targets.

That thread reminds me of people I knew in college who would argue in favor of recreationally taking ketamine or cocaine as a "though enhancer" or against taking ADHD meds because they felt they inhibited creativity. It's just rationalizing disordered behavior because it's *fun* to engage in.

You want your shitty opinions to spread, so you leave QTs on. You don't want actual engagement, defined as the sort of back and forth you're pretending to care about, because you want to exist in your safe bubble. So you turn replies off.

Yes, I would like to be ensconced among people who don't want me to die. Fucking shocker, buddy.

I know nobody who needs to hear this is going to listen to me but like: I 100% promise you that a massive amount of your information environment as a highly online trans person is being defined by people who either don't know what they're talking about, or don't have good intentions!

I honestly didn't much care about the CA governor race, but the way this billionaire fuck is lying through his teeth about shit while being supported by the "all billionaires are policy failures" crowd.... I have Becerra electorally kicks your teeth in, Tom.

It's especially absurd to have Kat Abu on to talk about why Harris lost. I think it was AOC who said we shouldn't take advice on how to win from people who've never won anything.

It's also quite telling how so many of them reacted to the idea of a random trans person working for a defense contractor, and yet turn around and support that same man.

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