Believe it or not, men across class boundaries are willing to overlook the bad behavior of other men. And I don’t think we owe Graham Platner the benefit of the doubt just because he wears jeans and farms oysters

This is taking place in NEW England.

A particularly gross evasion in Jacobin's subhed here: the claim beloved of every wife-beater since time immemorial that their misogyny is a walled-part of their "private life," meaning it will not affect their public decisions (LOL) and should be excluded from political scrutiny.

Heck, maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I'm an active, practicing, moderately left-of-center member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. AMA.

Thrilled to see some "Mormons aren't Christians" smoothbrains who are left-of-center and have somehow made it over to this site. I am relatively used to seeing my faith criticized or ridiculed on here; I am not accustomed to Christians whose theological understanding is that comically shallow.

Also, I think an uncomfortable reality of American progressivism is that it traces a lot of its modern lineage through an intensely antagonistic campaign against Hillary Clinton - antagonism which drew in more than a few people whose core objection to her had nothing to do with policy

Hegseth working overtime to create an LDS-Catholic lib alliance

Eh, AI writing tools can at least put out passable ad copy level writing. Seldom worth reading for pleasure, but serviceable for tasks with a low standard. "AI detectors" are just Magic 8 Balls.

Dressing up as Vikings to signify they’re going to show up in North America, do kinda nothing, and quickly get back on their boats and head back home

What's happening with Platner is why you hop off the bus at "he has a nazi tattoo"

You, surely not a sucker: This guy who lied about his Nazi tattoo is on my side and will vote how I want

Data centers have become the railroads of the digital age. Everybody uses them. Nobody wants one built near them.

A major problem for both Bush 41 and Bush 43 was that they ran on the legacy of Reagan's largely performative small-government rhetoric, got into office, realized all of the "bloat" was load-bearing, and soured their own base by failing to meaningfully reduce the size of the federal government.

This thread is absolutely fascinating. I knew the stories of both the Mountain Meadows Massacre and Parley P. Pratt's murder because he married Eleanor McLean, but I never made the connection between the two.

Paul Ehrlich didn't just advocate for the One-Child Policy, he was horrified by its repeal in 2015, long after it was clear that its chief legacies were mass female infanticide and incalculable human misery.

you guys i'm starting to think plucking a random guy with a nazi tattoo out of nowhere to barf into the senate may not have been the best idea

The House passed a measure directing President Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran or win approval from Congress to continue the war. The 215-208 vote is a remarkable rebuke of Mr. Trump and his handling of the conflict.-NYT

How that quote isn't on the advert I'll never understand.

nick bilton: be sure to put in the newspaper and on broadcast television and across every social media platform that I got mad and that you hurt my delicate feelings

In a sane world, this statement would send the markets into a tailspin. (Well, in a sane world, we wouldn't be here in the first place, but you get the point.)

"marx ending up as the colonel leading the thai elephant division under garibaldi's command of the union army in the american civil war, and in the aftermath the dominican republic and haiti join the united states" is an entirely plausible sequence of events to have occurred in the 19th century

Oh my gosh, he's trying to justify it.

This is one of those times when it’s important to recognize the asymmetry of the warfare here. For people like Weiss and Bilton and their backers, they win if they (1) corrupt CBS News OR (2) destroy CBS News and its credibility. Defenders only win by saving and preserving it.

And the thing is, yes, Ogles is a creep and a bigot who absolutely could have plausibly made the post himself, but also, he might be telling the truth here because the pool of politically active intern-age Republicans is made up almost entirely of neo-Nazis!

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We, in fact, have air con everywhere. We just turn it off to mess with Americans. Same with driving on the left. It's all a ruse. I bet some people even believe Scotland is a real place! It's not. It's all done with mirrors. You're just driving along the M25 and paying too much for shortbread.

It's even more than that. They've structured things so that a LOT of retirement/pension funds will be required to purchase this stock since it's a component of an index they own. It's a wholesale looting of 401k/403b accounts!

This feels almost like he doesn't care if anyone takes this seriously and just needed something to put on the SEC paperwork so that people who support his politics can pump money into his dying company.

It is astonishing journalistic malpractice for major outlets to continue giving this criminal's election denialism airtime.

At least he won't vote like Susan Collins! How do you know that? He's never held office. The only thing we know about this guy is he has spent every day of his campaign trying to stop stories about him from coming out. Or saying oops sorry about the sexual assault victim blaming and using the R word

This is a major problem with unitary executive authoritarianism--basic economic forces become unreliable because they are subject to the arbitrary whims of whoever is in charge!

the childish resentment that running as a dem subjects their candidates to higher levels of scrutiny than running as a republican is the thing i find most tedious. sorry that the Party of Lesser Evil asks you to be a little less evil

'how dare anyone discuss the character of this precious child who simply wants to be a core part of affecting the lives and deaths of hundreds of millions of people?'

I absolutely think a senate candidate's personal life is my business, because he is running to be one of the most powerful people in the United States. This is not a position where you can maintain a principled privacy for your serial infidelities *that took place last year.*

"Just accept that electoral dominance is a sign of righteousness and stop complaining" is basically the mindset behind how every Trump-skeptical Republican in 2016 turned into a Trump sycophant by 2024.

I need this skeet to be engraved on the wall of the DNC headquarters. Every Democratic nominee should be required to commit it to memory.

Katz seems like a total scumbag. It's the misplaced allocation of responsibility that really gets me here. The candidate did a bad thing. It's HIS responsibility to address it, not the responsibility of SOMEONE ELSE to cover for it by lying to the press. Enormous red flag for Katz AND Platner.

Platner is also a person with no actually relevant experience or skills to the job he is seeking, literally all he’s running on is his character, the fact that he also lacks that is sort of troubling!

As a Maine Democrat, I can tell you that you are completely wrong. Platner started off merely unqualified to be a US Senator and has fallen to “never let this guy anywhere near DC on my state’s behalf”. I ranked LaFlamme, Costello, and Mills in that order. Other Mainers should do the same.

"Stop being so picky about electing guys with Nazi tattoos." This is where we are.

Uhm… either she violated their trust OR she shared falsehoods. I don’t see how it can be both. “Here’s some horrible lies we’re telling you in the strictest confidence!”

Morris Katz saying that our politics should not have incompetent, opportunistic operatives

If you define “affordability” as “what the average family spends” you’re going to find that life is unaffordable for approximately 50% of families at all times. When there’s a boom, and spending goes up, that will continue to be true. If there’s a recession and spending goes down, also still true.

As much as I hate the foul baiting behaviors, I will always blame the league more than the players. The behavior we see is a result of how the games are called, and the league seems uninterested in fixing it.

The only other thing I will say is that to the people who claim to be Christians and believe the Bible but who actively hate and approve of mistreating other humans because they believed the words of racist charlatans: You’d better hope your politicians and pundits can forgive sin.

Yeah, I remain fairly baffled by the fact that there is essentially no function for the Democratic Party to intercede and prevent an ex-mercenary nepo baby with a Nazi tattoo from calling himself a Democrat, never mind becoming a party nominee.

The arrogance of promoting Platner (who hopefully will still win in November!) could cost Democrats the senate and all the people involved should feel deep shame even if he wins.

And, also: He says he's a WWII buff. Who didn't know what a Totenkopf looked like. That's what his public position is. That he loves WWII stuff. Doesn't know the second most obvious Nazi symbol. Like. He's a liar. Just a liar liar, pants on fire liar.