In his mind, none of this violence is reciprocal, only unidirectional. The ONLY bad actor here is Hamas. And the only remedy is re-education by the “civilized” and “moral” Israeli-led coalition. This is some high-level colonialist “Exterminate The Brutes” rhetoric. It’s horrifying.

Rather, he blames it on the “education system.” He laments the killing of 2 or 3 Israeli soldiers a week, but has no words of sympathy for the dozens of Palestinian children killed weekly, seeing them as a result of Hamas’ bad behavior.

I don’t discount this, but the AI Apocalypse is already happening—just not the way you’re focused on. It’s happening in every community within a mile of these data centers, where people are being harmed by the pollution & water scarcity. FOCUS 👏🏼 ON 👏🏼 THAT 👏🏼

The only good thing that can possibly come out of this will be a bonus @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode.

And again - I also want to win! And I do believe compromises need to be made. But not on people’s basic human dignity, not on the right to bodily autonomy. We can compromise on tax policy, and even climate regulations (within reason). But let people live.

What’s wild is that he’s been openly supportive of abortion, especially after his wife’s very difficult pregnancies. So this turn is really distressing. But it again shows that wealthy white people are willing to sacrifice the lives & safety of others to further their own politics.

Where does being married 3 times with multiple affairs fall on this index?

White men (almost) never fight FOR the rights of anyone else. So I am begging you to stop with the pro-life Dem nonsense and the ideas about compromising on trans rights. We can and should be able to win BECAUSE we are the party of equality. We need better messaging, not more compromise.

Also - my dude: we all want to win back power. But only white men are forever ok with doing that at the expense of the rest of us. It’s always the white men who want to compromise the rights of women, of trans people, of Black & brown folks, in order to win w the PROMISE of future rights.

What I find most frustrating is Ezra’s inability to acknowledge that his commentary on CK has whitewashed who CK was. Just admit that you were wrong - it’s fine! Especially when you have so many women, Black folks, LGBTQ+ folks, presumably immigrant folks, telling you. Listen to them.

I got through maybe 4 minutes, and then I was yelling at Ezra too much and had to stop. I cannot with this bullshit. I DO NOT understand how he thinks CK was doing anything other than normalizing violence against trans people, migrants, women, BIPOC, etc. It’s lunacy.

On The Bound from “When the Pawn”

I’ve been saying this for days: this is out of the “we need to compromise on abortion” playbook of the 1990s that led to Dobbs. It is GALLING that she is basically throwing trans kids under a bus for political gain. Have conversations! Absolutely! But do not cede rights. Learn a fucking lesson. 🙄

You cannot compromise with people who want you dead. The evidence of this is LITERALLY all around us, and we must fight for the rights of trans people (especially trans kids) to make decisions about their bodies. If trans folks have bodily autonomy, it assures it for the rest of us.

I tried listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with McBride & it’s honestly painful. Like, ma’am, why are you willing to sacrifice the existence of your community for political gain? Have you leaned nothing from Dobbs? We lost abortion bc we made compromises on bodily autonomy. Learn the lesson!!

LOL, true, true!

Even offering $1000 for “extras” on Craigslist didn’t seem to help. 😂

Has this man ever driven through Boston? Or an Italian neighborhood in *any* American city? Or is it just the brown folks he’s offended by? These man and his entire party can fuck right off.