Being an incorrigible skirt-chaser even when married and possible low-grade sexual harasser? Bad! Not the same as being a pedophile!

Being close with industry lobbyists? Bad! Not the same as taking bribes!

The flattening of grey areas with outright evil is unironically part of why we got Trump.

People don’t wanna hear it but one of the reason’s that bad actors like Chris Ruffo were able to do what they did is that center sectors of academia did in face make themselves very soft targets!

you can be proud of two white things for every one white thing you apologize for. I have said that the KKK is bad, and am thus am allowed pride in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ultimate frisbee.

a famously easy to manipulate experience unlike my preferred research method, making up a guy and winning an argument against him so hard everybody claps

I think it's pretty easily matches the burrito taxi discourse, there are people who want a thing (to speed, or to get fast food delivered) and they consider themselves leftist, so therefore it is anti-leftist to do something that prevents them from their thing.

this post brought to you by a purportedly socialist city supervisor promoting a crypto rug pull named after a cat killed by a robot car

“we would just win if we could break the laws of war” is terminal GWOT brain. its sacrificing your capacity to fight conventional wars to win asymetric fights against insurgents who dont matter bsky.app/profile/fwor...

I honestly don't understand why the successes in Colorado with left focused YIMBYism does not get far more attention.

if the willett be claire, you're in the clear. if the willett be kate, you're not doing great