I keep coming back to this post because it is so absurd. John Lewis forgave George Wallace, not Bull Connor, many years later because he came to Lewis and asked for forgiveness. Lewis believed he had real remorse and forgave him. Trump has never apologized and is actively gearing up for war.

Kenny Powers got rocked again

Ross's "conservatives must be above informal judgment, or else" goes hand in hand with Trump's "conservatives must be above the law, or else". If society will not accommodate them in all their unpleasantness, will not "say thank you", they would choose a state of nature & the war of all against all.

Note: Stealth NYT edit. (Thanks to the eagle-eyed reader who saw that!)

Absolutely correct take, in my imo

I love the Winter Olympics let’s all get frostbite and fall down a mountain

They’re roasting Seth Rogen on houseplant Reddit.

Wishing all Nazis a clumsy, panicked death today

Not only don't I think this is a crank theory, I think it's obviously true almost at the sun-rises-in-the-east level.

My sort of crank, not thought through theory is that as MBA brain has proliferated, management of businesses has gotten more and more divorced from the particulars of the businesses they’re managing, and CEOs’ jobs are “business” in the same way Ken’s job is “beach.”

nobody's done more to promote political violence than the GOP, but damn if the dems haven't played a huge role in creating the conditions for mass violence by absolutely choking off any sense that people can create positive change through non-violent, traditional political channels

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

please consider tossing a few dollars to one of my most beloved internet humans

Locked inside a dying shopping mall where the owner walks around in a dirty diaper demanding praise, and all the mall cops are dressed like army men ready to fuck you up for laughing or pointing out how empty and sad it all is

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

i am willing to hear objections that i will reject, but, man, neko case may be the best lyricist of the last 30 years

the normalization and the lying - not his commited base- are what put him over the threshold of power. twice.

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

Old Enough to remember when the destruction of Buddhist monumental architecture in Afghanistan was unequivocal proof of the subhuman barbarity of the regime there.

getting people fired for being insufficiently thirsty about Robert Redford

Oh this is very cool #MathNerds

Civility is when you peacefully back down against the people who want you to be servants or dead so the stock market can keep going up.

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

French guy: Hey man I got a big bowl you want some? French guy's naive interlocutor, also French: A big bowl? A big bowl of what? FG: A big bowl of ten, homie. FGNI,AF: Ten what? FG: NINETEE-HEEN! [French guy starts high-fiving all his friends]

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

"we cannot express our regrets profoundly enough, but it is our hope that you will use these two free passes to return to jurassic park"

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

French guy: Hey man I got a big bowl you want some? French guy's naive interlocutor, also French: A big bowl? A big bowl of what? FG: A big bowl of ten, homie. FGNI,AF: Ten what? FG: NINETEE-HEEN! [French guy starts high-fiving all his friends]

Hey did y'all know that if you set your tablet to automatically back up pics and video to Google Photos, and then you decide to review the footage from the trail cam you keep out back to watch the alley cats, your tablet might try to dump all 256 GB from that SD card to your Google account?

Oh now I'm even more excited to be taking a flight soon.

If Bill Kristol can come out and make public statements like this, shouldn't we expect at least as much from 100% of our elected Democrats? Shouldn't we expect at least as much from Gavin Newsom?

So lemme get this straight. Dude-fluencers are telling young men they shouldn't be hanging out with their friends until they make their first $10M. But *feminism* is getting blamed for the supposed male loneliness epidemic?!

Yes he very civilly said my wife was too stupid to be a pilot and my money controls the world and we both were degenerates who should be killed, he said all that very civilly

tl;dr aside from the obvious bad faith actors who know exactly what they’re doing, I just would really appreciate it if more folks would stop being so Pollyanna about white supremacists

Well this is fucking bleak

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Remember: Civil discourse is when you encourage others to kill members of a marginalized group, violence is when you say you aren't sad that the guy who tried to get people to kill you is dead.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

The Lyft driver just put on some pop emo, which I usually take as a comment on my whiteness, but now she's singing along to it. Turns out that like most things, it's not about me, she's just a true Sibling in Feelings.

Dar Williams singing, "Yeah, she's really blonde": best line in all of music? Surely it's in contention.

During the Spanish Civil War it was common for people to use the war as a convenient excuse to permanently settle grievances or just straight up steal their neighbor's property. Same in Afghanistan. An environment in which someone informs on you because they covet your wife or truck...very very bad

This rang true 8 days ago; it rings even truer today.

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

These events are about baiting and bullying. That's what it is when a thirty-year-old man sets up a "debate me" table so he can scream at a bunch of 18 year olds. It's not "practicing politics in exactly the right way."

““Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them,” said Kirk on his show, later adding that “the philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors in the country.”” 3/

The most striking thing about this era is how badly you're punished, constantly, just for being able to see things as they obviously are. And I'm not even talking about personal or professional consequences, just the constant psychic damage you take from knowing that 1 + 1 doesn't equal fish.

NYT editor: ack! Shut it down!