Going hand in hand with the bullshit of respectability politics is hell’s handmaiden, the centrist: No Labels is a political outfit that hails political centrism, calls for bipartisanship, and is considering running an independent ticket in the 2024 presidential election that could end up spoiling President Joe Biden’s reelection bid. On its website, the group …
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Devasting & Disgusting: The Nashville Shooting
This is Transgender Visibility Week, so I was bouncing around ideas this morning about what to post, but when I checked in on different internet communities where trans news abounds, things are squarely focused on how afraid people are from the backlash of the Nashville shooting that happened Monday. I don’t think it’s an appropriate …
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Repub Venality, Retro Edition: The Iranian ‘October Surprise’
dig up his corpse and hang ithttps://t.co/LbvvMEmKgR — sun 🔆))) (@revhowardarson) March 18, 2023 In which John Connally richly earns his reputation for being cynical, self-centered, rapacious and coldblooded. Congrats to @peterbakernyt for revealing details of this important historical moment. — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) March 18, 2023 The GOP wants one last chance to show …
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Just Fucking Do It Already
Taking a moment from being swamped to yell into the void and get something off my chest. One of the most irritating things about getting older and having watched people and politics for multiple decades is that I am just sick and fucking tired of debating the same bullshit year after year after year. The …
Global Affairs Open Thread: Steven Pinker Has THOUGHTS
"How can I propose the worst possible idea, but also still keep getting funding for my institution from both American and Russian Oligarchs?" https://t.co/Z3tVuZvm2z — onomatopoeia (@cotedesure) July 25, 2022 It’s all very well having ‘Time’s “The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today”, 2004’ and multiple ‘Foreign Policy’s list of “Top 100 Global …
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Sick of the Bullshit
I’ve been in a mood all fucking day, and shared some choice words with people on social media, including this rant on facebook: I’ve started cutting more people out of my life today. Ditching a bunch of old fraternity brothers, people from undergrad and HS, people I haven’t spent any time with in 20 years, …
Open Thread: Hate Will Not Win ***Reposted***
From Starrlet O’Hara: Regarding The Incident At PRIDE First and foremost, I need to thank everyone who has reached out to me this week. If I haven’t responded, please know that I do appreciate your concern and your kind words. I just needed a minute to process this before I addressed it. I was on …
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