unlike football players, Journalists are required to get CTE BEFORE they start working in the field.

Nothing sends me into a blind rage more than people proudly stating that ICE and detention camps are “a Trump problem”

They all got the same memo

Like it doesn't fucking matter if you believe that Wired article or not. Because it is irrelevant to the question of whether David Pakman is lying about what Red Scare is. He provably is lying. The article is just an explanation as to why.

The blood Obama has on his hands from immigrants that his administrations deported will never be washed off and must also not ever be forgiven. His policies of cruelty and xenophobia led us to where we are today with Donald Trump. A piece from *2016*.

thehill.com/blogs/pundit...

I never connected these, despite railing against both the UK's trans panic and boarding school culture separately, but it makes sense. Of course you'd be worried about being sexually assaulted in a bathroom if you went to a boarding school where that's the norm. "Bullying, beatings, and buggery!"

Will Menaker used this as the basis for the best explanation I've seen of Elite Columnist Trans Bathroom Panic in the UK - these people all went to boarding schools where kids doing horrendous things to one another in bathrooms (while everyone kept quiet about it) was part of the curriculum.

Anyway, think about the last time you heard Madison Cawthorn's name since he got a little too close to blabbing about the cocaine sex parties.

Mutual blackmail material has always been the backbone of elite solidarity. Aristocrats don't send their kids to boarding schools because the teachers are better; they send them to learn the group dynamic of being above the law. Whether you participate or only witness it, keep your mouth shut.

lmao

It's crazy how the elected Democrats for decades have been talking about how they want a strong Republican party and campaign in presidential elections that Republicans are fundamentally good and they want the Republican vote. Somehow it's not their fault at all that Republicans win.

"David Pakman being in communication about receiving payments from a DNC-funded consultancy doesn't mean he's paid by the DNC. But I fully believe him when he calls two wannabe Leni Reifenstahls funded by Peter Thiel 'extreme left.' I am very in touch with reality."

It's embarrassing that you are defending someone who is provably lying to smear the left, but then you still publicly identify as a liberal at a time the liberals are rolling over to collaborate with the Fourth Reich.

Like, Pakman is PROVABLY lying here. You just want to look for any excuse you can find to believe he's not. Tinkerbell ass politics. Keep clapping for the Democrats, they die if you don't believe hard enough!

It's amazing how hard you fell for David Pakman's lying. But since you're a liberal, you have to lie to yourself to believe that you are not on the side of the Nazis and that your beloved party and politicians aren't collaborating with them. Fuck off and grow up.

Pakman is literally named as one of the "influencers" in communication with the consulting firm.

More to the point, his original post is lying here. We know it's a lie. I'm just explaining why. You, on the other hand, are... Retreating into whatever lets you believe it isn't a lie, I guess.

Newsom is allowing trans rights on paper to keep the cis liberals satisfied, which they will be, while ensuring trans people (and queer cis people!) don't actually get to have rights in a material sense

I don't think it's a misunderstanding. I think David Pakman receives money from the DNC and connected consulting groups to smear the left.

www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

Which puts the lie to the whole project. "Pro-democracy", or in fact the whole concept of "world peace" under the ~liberal international world~ isnt about liberalism, democracy or peace, it's about ascendant global capitalism. The "neoliberal fascism" the lefties warn you about.

They arent even really trying. They didnt want to give it to Trump because he's too crude & bull-headed a right wing strongman to represent their acquiescence, so instead they gave it to another right winger who doesnt deserve it bc she phrases her reactionary sentiment as pro-democracy pablum

The idea that any of this really means anything anymore, except that the liberal international order has been sublimated to the influence of the global far right, is naive or at best uninformed.

The person they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to has since been trying to instigate a US invasion of her country and to support that effort has said she shouldnt have been given the award, it should gone to Trump, the far right wing autocrat murdering Venezuelans & disappearing ppl to foreign prisons

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

being lectured about drunk driving (and not for ACTUALLY drunk driving) by a pro-genocide racist, what a world