i'm old enough to remember when MSNBC cancelled Phil Donahue's show permanently because he was the only guy on their channel publicly opposed to the Iraq War and they literally said it was because he was opposed to the Iraq War.
Aristotle: "Diogenes, you are a dog."
Diogenes the Cynic: "Yes, I am a dog. I guard the innocent, lick the hands of the faithful, and bark at the unworthy."
A simple test for witches: Drown them. On the way down, most witches start sputtering about how you're the real witches and grifting off their "canceled" status. They might also do Holocaust revisionism and RT Elon Musk. Stand firm. However, if they go quietly, congrats: you just drowned an ally.
99% of all the tech nerd bullshit you see them spout, is indistinguishable from any nerd conversation about fiction from warhammer to tolkien. The only difference is they think they're actually doing science.
In american politics you are Unserious if you say things like "Health care should be free" and then this is what comes out of the mouths of Serious people
"What kind of precedent would it set to expel members of Congress for refusing to certify a valid election or refusing to impeach an insurrectionist president?" I don't know, man. What kind of precedent did it set NOT TO?
The hidden premise of the Heritage Foundation's advance declaration that the 2024 election result will be illegitimate is: "Biden stole the last one, and now he'll be in an even better position to steal this one." Biden and Dem leaders' inaction allowed those view to fester and become mainstream.
If Biden really believed Trump was a threat to American democracy, he would have pushed to have insurrectionists expelled from Congress and ordered his AG to arrest Trump. Instead, his apparent plan was to hope Trump would slink away in shame, because taking action would be hard and controversial.
No, tech = capital, and *that's* why we hate it. Tech oligarchs are competing to exploit the most labor and trash the environment, actively working to destroy any form of regulation to those ends, and will possibly destroy democracy in the process.
Ok so this is a chance to share one of my favorite religion facts
It is not a "coat" it is a PRINCESS DRESS. The hebrew word used does not mean "coat" and the only other time it is used in the bible is to describe a dress King Herod bought for his daughter.
Really changes the story!
Sometimes when I clear out the digital sticky notes on my computer I find detritus like this:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Pride Float (Because That Coat Is A Float Of Its Own)
When the american liberals use France's election as an illustration of the need to VOTE, they ignore that people were not only voting against the far right but *for* something.
They voted for a campaign which promises to: increase minimum wage, lower retirement age, pay for all childcare, etc
GOP strategy: push the policy toward Nazi-town, then back off a smidge so the lapdog media reports "GOP eases up its policy" so it all seems reasonable.
THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right:
"Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
the interesting thing about France's great victory over the fascists is that the left was treated like an equal partner in the plan to prevent vote-splitting, and not simply screamed at to sit down, shut up, drop out, etc by shrill, egotistical centrists
I wonder if anyone will learn from this
The left coalition allied with centrists, pulling out third-ranked candidates to avoid splitting the vote against the fascists. If they hadn't done this, the fascists might have a majority. So the lesson seems to be that the best way to defeat fascism is for leftists and centrists to work together.
As a person very down with talking shit about Biden and why he’s a bad candidate and should never have been President in the first place I want to condemn all members of the American media for finding the dumbest most craven way to do it
