Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

This could be a pretty good mod to a civ game

Binational state has been something that people just sort of laugh off for a long time now but I always felt like it wasn’t that implausible really. Idk if it’s really the best solution but I think it deserves attention

There was a popular image going around a few years ago of a "white" looking Palestinian girl being arrested by an Ethiopian Jewish female cop in the west bank that was being used to say "haha how dumb people are to think Israel is racist". You'd think people would have learned better by now but nope

Maybe metroidvanias should all just be called Zeldalikes, thus ending all controversy forever. Or maybe zeldavanias? Zeldoids?

I personally have felt “anti Zionist” in the past, and while I do abstractly still feel, I more and more don’t find it to be a healthy fixation. Like the Zionism has historically succeeded and can’t be undone. We need to focus on what comes next, rooted in empathy for all and good humanistic values.

This is the very limited sense in which it can be said that “taste” is something objective. There are reasons to like or dislike something that really just speak more to understanding layers of nuance than anything else

I guess Zelda also has that? I’m a bit ignorant because I have played very little Zelda

I don’t necessarily disagree but I think Metroidvania also carries with it the implication of like a semi-open world without linear path, and progression being gated by gaining new movement abilities.

video of people being snatched by ICE at a laundromat shows an intersection between housing and immigration enforcement. if your unit and building don't have (working, available) laundry, that's one more errand where you have to spend significant time in potentially vulnerable public space

Rebuilding the whole immigration system will take so much work when this is all over

It’s a metaphor for life

What a sophisticated thinker this man is “the government should prohibit the things I specifically don’t like and permit the things I do like”

The answer is literally just the meme with the screenshot from family guy with the paint swatches

I love to choose, or be chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers

Incredible the difference that the BG3 ending party makes to how that game feels to play. Total night and day from before they added it.

I try to fix them up a little bit when I can by at least deleting unsourced argumentative sections or correcting when the text doesn’t match what a source say. I get fooled sometimes too because something can be superficially well sourced but the sources are bad/misrepresented/one sided.

It’s really funny whenever you happen across a less popular page about a controversial topic that was obviously written by one angry guy. A random example I found recently was the page for the racial caste system in colonial Latin America that’s all very polemically rejecting the concept as fake

Imagine how boring it would be if there was only one way to be human

I don’t think this worldview is actually obviously wrong. I think it’s kind of right that certain social forms are just illegitimate and banishing those who want to institute them is OK, its just that revolutionary politics like that must have a necessarily short lifespan because it’s very unstable.

I think this touches on the Leninist kind of worldview a bit. The view is that modern liberalism is effectively like premodern kingship in that it’s inherently illegitimate so any party that supports it is out of bounds, like a monarchist restoration in the US would be out of bounds of acceptability

Actually I would say one thing to support your point, which is that ironically the the most enduring legacies of the 20th century state socialist movement are in many ways the welfare states created by reformist social democratic parties, despite them being rolled back to an extent.

State socialism has had a number of quite different trajectories, from recreating capitalism under party control, to creating a new bureaucratic class, to being directly overthrown by capitalism. I think it’s fair to say it never has worked long term but ldk what the consistent trajectory is

Devils advocate, I don’t really agree with this but the argument goes like this:

Any party that supports capitalism is incompatible with freedom, so multiple capitalist parties is illusory freedom. The only option is revolution which requires discipline and a dedicated party-state to do effectively