I don't think my stomach could bear witnessing that. I'll pass.

I realize that this is glib and irrelevant, but I always thought that Skeletor from the 80s cartoon He-Men resembled Rick Scott. It tracks. As Camus said, at age 40 one has the face one deserves...

No.

Sontag often shot from the hip and wound up shooting herself in the foot. A talented writer, but not nearly as erudite and analytically sound as she thought she was.

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You don't combat the "dangerousness of the Right" by posting on EITHER X/Twitter OR Bluesky. You combat the Right by actually combating it--pushing for "soft secession," badgering your congressperson, etc.

Radical centrism = 50s Republicanism in drag.

And Yglesias gives bullshit a bad name.

I live in the USA (well, NY, so maybe not?) and think that Europe and the rest of the world SHOULD cut us off.

U.S. Americans seem to react only to economic and political pain. We are dense that way, but there you go.

SA was cut off, and the ANC was on board with that. It's the US's turn now.

Please, please, give up on us already.....

US Americans seem to understand only one thing: economic and political pain. Europe needs to kick the USA in the groin, figuratively: pariah nations need to be treated like pariah nations. We qualify.

The ANC welcomed the boycotts. It's the USA's turn.

This misses the point SO badly. You don't combat the dangerousness of the Right by posting on EITHER X/Twitter OR Bluesky. You combat the Right by actually combating it--pushing for "soft secession," badgering your congressperson, etc.

Guys like Klein & Yglesias give bullshit a bad name.

Welcome to the fresh hell called Internet culture.....

Referring to himself in the third person--and another bit of white brain matter bites the dust.

Is he trying to be Dobby the House Elf? Elmo? Smeagol-Gollum is more like it.

A deranged and malevolent buffoon. But we knew that already.

Not a huge fan of either the Harper's Letter test or "Horseshoe Theory" but dayum

I have always been ambivalent about Chomsky. Right about Israel-Palestine & US imperialism, wrong about Ukraine & a bit of a tankie. He is HIGHLY overrated as linguist & aspiring philosopher. Finally, Epstein.

I mean, what ulterior motive could HE possibly have?...

If you need ChatGPT to raise your kid then you should not be raisin a kid. Full stop.

These people are dangerous. Very dangerous.

The administration of Maximum Leader is oriented toward 2 and only 2 goals: 1) make money for the in-crowd and, 2) kill people. Item 2) covers the boat-bombings, the cuts in SNAP benefits, and the anti-vaxx insanity. People will die. Not only do they not care, but this is precisely what they want..

This is hilarious and spot on.

When an Ezra-crat says "move to the center," keep in mind that the center has moved so far to the right that Reagan looks like Mao now.

As for civility, well, it works when you are interacting with someone civil. If not, not. Avoidance is prudent, sarcasm acceptable.

Not sure if that one was painted in 1904, though, which is 50 years prior to my arrival on the scene.

That said, you're right: that's the best of the bunch!

Yes, you can say that.

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Probably this one.

Probably this one.