the thesis of this piece is that because bill Guerin thinks he made no mistakes, we have to respect that. that’s not how anything works!

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

"archive.is is a GamerGate thing" no archive.is is the "I want a snapshot of this content at this exact point in time" thing. Also the paywall dodging thing but that's unrelated.

"what if we somehow combined Brexit with the Donbas Crisis?"

I think one of the most persistent social lies we are all taught is that evil, unshackled by the need to be moral, is better at things. This in spite of the fact that every time evil is tried on a societal level, it fails. It makes everything worse, not just what it wants to make worse.

McConell failed, as @jamellebouie.net notes, by his own metrics for the first 6 years of Obamas terms. Not only was Obama not a one term president as McConnell pledged to make him but he also managed to get thru a bunch of big legislation. Turns out theres only so much you can do as minority leader!

so many things in this world are bleak and depressing but my God when you think about HIV/AIDS research I just want to cry it was a death sentence for so long people lost so much whole generations of queer elders were lost now we have basically a vaccine

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“talent is colonialism,” i roar as i furiously install the easy mode completion mod on my copy of touhou 6: the embodiment of scarlet devil

Substituting an imaginary, fake Trump into the story because writing about the real Trump and his actual actions would be very bad for Trump and not help him:

[Deep sigh] the dementia didn't make trump racist, he was always racist. The dementia is fucking with his behavioral filters, which is also why hes gotten way more profane in public lately. Happens all the time!

Biden just had the most labor-friendly administration since FDR and tried to doubled the size of the IRS to go after rich tax cheats

Donald Trump is a racist.

probably good mental hygiene to think about how to avoid that particular pitfall, always but especially especially now

Shaking my head while eating the Wagyu swastika so everyone knows I disagree with the chef's plating

Listen, I actually do understand feeling frustrated because "goddamn it why should I have to be persuasive, I'm objectively correct!!!" But the important part there is that you actually have to be objectively correct

The "Classic Carlos" costume in RE3R is silly. It somehow manages to look like neither Original Carlos, nor Remake Carlos.

If you truly believed that getting rid of the illegals would bring about a shangri-la of social and economic benefits you wouldn't start the project in liberal cities in blue states with resistant governments, you'd start in red states with friendly governments and make an example for others

No one has made a stronger case for why the ultra wealthy need to have a significant amount of their wealth taxed away on a year basis than the ultra wealthy themselves

RFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype

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There’s a direct line from Al Gore “creating the internet” to Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” to Biden’s “nothing will fundamentally change” of popular people deciding to run with a made-up version of what was said rather than, y’know, the actúa reasonable thing that was said.

you can really defend the modern Democratic record without salting every other tweet with "I know Dems suck and are the second-worst possible option, but-" just. stop. just fucking stop. if you have specific salient criticisms of specific persons, make them. stop undermining your own damn argument

this is fucking deranged, embarrassing and disqualifying

Seriously. It’s driving me nuts because I don’t like Newsom, but have lived in California since 2007 & worked in both journalism & LGBTQ politics, & people just doing these internet poisoned low info takes are talking themselves into excuses for not using the power they have

Don't let anyone else make your fight for survival their cause célèbre

“Joining a protest is like joining a gang. You are bound by omertà even if you find out about serious crimes. I am definitely a dedicated activist and not a nihilist.”

“inherently dehumanizing” is begging the question. It is kind of like refusing to discuss evolution for fear it means we are just animals

like guys have you seen how they talk about this on twitter. its not good.

feel bad for Bad Bunny because in context he was clearly very genuinely emotional for winning AOTY and is fighting back tears but this image is already being accompanied with like “when your boss asks you to do your job”

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This is because the reactionary mind believes their idea world is actually the foundational and they shouldn't have to work for it. Once they destroy the Cathedral and liquidate the Degenerate Elites the natural order will reassert itself- and if it doesn't, that means you need to smash more stuff.

When someone did this on our street a few years ago, the city eventually had to send a crew with jackhammers to break the melted plastic off the road, because the bin had fused like lava to the tarmac (not to mention towing away the burnt car parked next to it)

Also follow a lot of libs here and most of them hate gavin newsome so i really think this is a lot of fantasizing for a new reason to not vote amongst lefties into that.

Bill Clinton: "RELEASE FUCKING EVERYTHING YOU COWARDS" Leftist chucklefucks doing fascist work for them: "Bill Clinton's still implicated." I mean if he is, then fucking show your work, but Bill Clinton is the **only** person whose name is in any of this who is full-throated in calling for release

Sin is bullshit and expiation is a racket. You're being sold a secular repackaging of tent revivalist hokum by millionaire failchildren while fascist paramilitaries kidnap your neighbors

Like, I'm going to be really lefty for a moment here- read the COINTELPRO papers and especially the methods used to break up black power movements and AIM cells and it's this exact same shit. Throwing good people out for "opsec" while ignoring Feddy Fedderson b/c he uses the right shibboleths.

"We need to start dumpster fires" is the most cargo-cult shit I've ever seen

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

Apropos of nothing but the NGO industrial complex wholly capturing activism is in fact bad and why the left (broadly speaking) is in the state it is in.

“I don’t have to be disciplined because I’m an activist. You vote, so you have to be responsible for your behavior and it’s my job to hold you responsible.” This kind of shit is endemic and it’s just high school clique bullshit.

you motherfuckers want him more than we do and you're too chickenshit to admit it

i just think "if you adopt the right aesthetics then no one is allowed to question your choice of tactics" is a pretty obviously false principle stated plainly

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

having memories of when people insisted that self-immolation had only ever been the most righteous of political actions and then got mad when I pointed out that it had been used, for instance, by people protesting the lack of caste privilege at Indian universities, or in defense of rapists.

I don’t really think we’re going to test this scenario but I would observe that if your line is “anybody but Newsom” you best be ready to get on a non-Newsom compromise candidate even if they aren’t a perfect alignment for you otherwise

but you understand that republicans winning is worse for literally everything you care about, right so you will, in fact, vote for democrats in the general election even if your candidate loses, because you want things to be better and not worse, right

look, man, i think the intra-lib-left flame wars are very dumb and i have less than zero interest in newsom advancing beyond his current position, but this is what primaries are for, there’s no council of liberals demanding that newsom must be awarded the presidency on their recommendation

I really, REALLY do not like the flourishing "wow, it turns out conspiracy theories are correct!"