the Pussy Rioters insult our sensibilities and go to jail
bet VDH smacked his lips over that one
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
the life we save might be a baitfish
― miserable pissy riot (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
We in California divert life-saving water to save a baitfish
i hate him so much
there's no water to divert or not divert. that's the problem. that's the fact.
― goole, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
yup. we should be building new reservoirs, not debating this non-issue
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
In contrast, Putin, mostly to global silence, does nothing as his thugs with impunity terrorize gay activists (who mostly demonstrate for basic freedom of speech, not marriage).
this isn't true you lying sack of shit
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
also "Well, we in the liberal West don't care about gays unless they demonstrate for marriage" fuck you
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
You know he can't hear you, right?
― waterbabies (waterface), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
oh shit how do I retract
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
lol at right-wing putin envy. here's the best part:
Putin is almost Milton’s Satan — as if, in his seductive evil, he yearns for clarity, perhaps even a smackdown, if not just for himself, for us as well. He is not the better man than Obama but, again like Milton’s Satan, the more interesting, if only because he reminds of us of our own limitations.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
this is a whole other kettle of right-wing zaniness but TAC's rod dreher -- who normally writes as the magazine's token 'thoughtful christian' voice -- wrote some really disgusting, hateful, misogynistic stuff about pussy riot, pretty much applauding their arrest. finally got me to quit reading that site altogether, except for larison.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
did they just compare obama to god? or is it just any american president who's god.
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
"there are some people to whom health-insurance ought to remain an aspirational luxury"
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/arkansas-private-option-medicaid-021114
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
goole! Your boy has some thoughts on feminism.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
always behind his own stable, that guy
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370451/feminist-mystique-kevin-d-williamson
― goole, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
Feminism began as a simple grievance, mutated into a kind of conspiracy theory (with “patriarchy” filling in for the Jews/Freemasons/Illuminati/Bohemian Grove/reptilian shape-shifters/the fiendish plot of Dr. Fu Manchu/etc.), spent the 1980s in grad school congealing into a ridiculous jargon, and with the booming economy of the 1990s was once again reinvented, this time as a career path.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link
^^ NRO knows its audience.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
a challenger appears
http://thefederalist.com/
― goole, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
Celebrate Love, Not War: Don’t Use Valentine’s Day to Attack Men
Yes, men and women are different. But the answer is not a feminist Promised Land that is exhausting, devoid of love, and not much fun at all.
― goole, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Bill De Blasio’s Law Enforcement Racket
Is Bill de Blasio about to take New York City’s public safety back to the bad old days of rampant street crime and murder – or is it just a charade?
― goole, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
Most of these contra-feminist pieces rely on the technique of first defining feminism in exactly the terms they prefer to apply to it, then attacking that version. The inevitable conclusion: feminism is horrible and ought to be rejecting by all right-thinking people. What is rarely clear is what they endorse, which is usually a misty, nebulous, sentimental warm-fuzziness that they are certain would arise spontaneously if only feminism weren't impeding its arrival.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
I'd say that's the least of their problems, but you are not wrong.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:15 (ten years ago) link
if they're attempting to rebrand the war on women as just ye olde war on feminism that's probably the smartest response they've had yet (/= actual smart respone ftr). there's still alot of women, esp among independent voters, that reject the feminist label cuz they 'don't hate men' or some other taylor swift reason.
― balls, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/370957/print
Geographically, trans in Latin is a preposition that meant “on the other side” (Caesar refers to the Germans, who dwell “trans Rhenum,” on the other side of the Rhine) and cis meant “on the same side” (Livy describes how in early Rome a certain banished ethnic group, if caught “cis Tiberim,” on this side of the Tiber, had the price of their liberty set at a thousand units of bronze, which sounds like a good deal more than the Gang of Eight would ask for).Where we now like to apply these to galling (for some) concepts about gender and sex, the Romans used them as prefixes to refer to the province of Gaul that was on the same side of the Alps as the city of Rome — Cisalpine Gaul — and the part that was on just the other side — Transalpine Gaul.
Where we now like to apply these to galling (for some) concepts about gender and sex, the Romans used them as prefixes to refer to the province of Gaul that was on the same side of the Alps as the city of Rome — Cisalpine Gaul — and the part that was on just the other side — Transalpine Gaul.
haha
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 19:46 (ten years ago) link
sorry I guess this isn't from The Corner, just NRO.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
what we claim is lawless unconstitutional kenyan muslimism under soetero we'd be cool with under the mormon
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/370854/democrats-media-slam-president-romney-over-health-care-law-changes-charles-c-w-cooke
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
thohan• 3 hours ago
Excellent piece. It's nice to have guys like Cooke on my side.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
Check Your Privilege, Facebook! Social Media Giant Slights Members of 51st GenderBy Alec TorresFebruary 13, 2014 4:34 PMComments0
As Patrick Brennan recently discussed on the Corner, it’s getting harder to know how to refer to another person’s gender(s). Now, Facebook is making it even harder.
The Associated Press recently broke the news that Facebook now offers users a customizable gender option with about 50 different gender-identifying terms people can use to describe themselves along with three separate pronoun choices: him, her, or them.
The grammatical debate over the application of the plural pronoun “them” to a single subject aside, it’s a sad sign of the times that Facebook excluded whatever the 51st gender descriptor is, thus committing a hate crime against the dozens of people who probably describe themselves with said descriptor.
How dejected — nay depressed — must flexual people feel knowing that Facebook now accepts cisgender females, Trans*Men, and Trans*Males (don’t worry, the distinctions elude me, too) but not them and their girlfag peers.
Or what of all the trigender people who find out that Facebook will let one choose up to “bigender” but not beyond. They must be at least a third as offended as the flexuals.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
it gives me pleasure to think how bad these assholes are gonna hate the future
― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
guys, we're over here: NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come
MODS?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 February 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
xpost amenfuck y'all str8 men
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:18 (ten years ago) link
jesus christ, that Charles C. W. Cooke 'satire' piece has its head so far up its ass, it could probably discover three or four new genders just by opening its eyes
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
I used to be way into subjecting myself to the internet conservative cesspool; nice to see that the quality of the prose hasn't slipped:
Among her most enthusiastic boosters is Cecile Richards, daughter of the late Texas governor, who is paid nearly a half-million dollars a year for her work defending the surgical dismemberment of unborn children in the furtherance of sexual convenience.
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:33 (ten years ago) link
... And You Will Know Her by the Surgical Dismemberment of Unborn Children in the Furtherance of Sexual Convenience
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
also, I mean, just, huge roffles at these guys scratching their heads all "The ideology of feminists is incoherent—some of them want one thing, but others want this different thing!! Whatta buncha flighty dames!!!!" (You don't need to keep capitalizing 'feminist' — ED.)
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:39 (ten years ago) link
"why is it okay for Hillary to call other women in politics 'whiny', but not for me, a white man at a computer, to continue dragging Anita Hill's name through the mud??" *tears flow into bib*
― my collages, let me show you them (bernard snowy), Saturday, 15 February 2014 03:44 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha
― WilliamC, Saturday, 15 February 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
It’s one thing to be tolerant of what once were known as “alternative lifestyles.” It’s another thing to be asked to celebrate them, as the exuberant mythologizers of Michael Sam and Johnny Weir ask us to do. And it is way beyond the pale to hold forth on any sort of sex life — perhaps apart from self-restraint — as if it’s a form of heroism.
Yet the culture of the professional Left, enthusiastically aided by the establishment media, is going bonkers in pushing active homosexuality (or any one of several exotic variants thereof) as an absolute virtue. One can hardly turn around these days without facing, in fiction or in real life, what amounts to homosexual chic. From the amount of primetime air time afforded to gay Americans, one would think they constitute at least a large minority of the population, rather than the 3 to 5 percent they actually do.
“Not that there’s anything wrong with that,” as Seinfeld wisdom had it. Most Americans assuredly don’t much care what other people do as long, as the saying goes, as they “don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.” And if the Bible tells us it’s a sin, well, we can leave that issue between the putative sinner and a God famous for both judgment and mercy. Our job, speaking spiritually rather than physically, is to love our neighbor, not from some misguided impulse to charity but instead genuinely, as equals — and to worry about not committing our own particular brands of transgression.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
active homosexuality (or any one of several exotic variants thereof)
ooh do tell!
*fans self*
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
Steve_Seattle • 33 minutes ago
For liberals, it is an easy step to go from support of fornication, abortion, pornography, and prostitution to support of homosexuality. It costs them nothing, while giving them an opportunity to bash conservatives as bigoted and unenlightened. For that reason alone, the MSM will not soon drop this issue. But I sometimes wonder how sincere is this liberal celebration of homosexuality. In less-guarded forms of liberalism, such as blue-collar liberalism, you still hear gay jokes and gay epithets, and these typically go unchallenged even if the participants don't care much about gay marriage. And in unguarded moments, liberals such as Alec Baldwin resort to gay epithets when they are angry, or will refer to some conservative as a "closet homosexual."
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
I am looking forward to crowds of conservatives, milling about, holding crude signs and fervently chanting, "Down with fornication!"
― Aimless, Monday, 24 February 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
For liberals, it is an easy step to go from support of fornication, abortion, pornography, and prostitution to support of homosexuality.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYBdM44_J58/Sa3OeSHaArI/AAAAAAAABbU/k2MeHt1WpXE/s400/PornInUtah.JPG
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2013/8/27/Screen_Shot_2013-08-27_at_10.00.11_AM.png
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
anita queen?
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
OK, here you go!
http://news.tangatawhenua.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-Queen-7.jpg
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
heelllooo loyal subjects!
― How dare you tarnish the reputation of Turturro's yodel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 24 February 2014 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Quin Hillyer
― goole, Monday, 24 February 2014 19:57 (ten years ago) link
In which it is shown that Jay Nordlinger has lost his mind.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
Decline Is a Choice. A Bad One. But People Still Choose It. I Don't Understand It. Decline Is Bad. Hello. Is This On.
― goole, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vrib3xM.png
― bnw, Tuesday, 25 February 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
The best comment I've seen in forever, on Roy Edroso's alicublog about Rich Lowry and this whole Arizona thing:
Also, if you go back to Quin Hillyer on the fainting couch about Johnny Weir gaying up figure skating, this week brings us National Review writers protecting the following from gays: 1) figure skating 2) bakers 3) florists 4) photographers. They can't even figure out which end of the slippery slope is which.
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Thursday, 27 February 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
lots of things go without saying at the n4tion4l r3vi3w
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
Rod Dreher's been in Hungary a couple of months and it's really helping him be more comfortable with his fascism. pic.twitter.com/BbvC7mJ3fX— Roy Edroso (@edroso) June 13, 2021
― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Monday, 14 June 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
Champ Biden dies, Major lives on. The Biden family tragedy in miniature.— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) June 19, 2021
― mookieproof, Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
🐦[Rod Dreher’s been in Hungary a couple of months and it’s really helping him be more comfortable with his fascism. pic.twitter.com/BbvC7mJ3fX🕸— Roy Edroso (@edroso) June 13, 2021🕸]🐦
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 19 June 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
LOL
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2021/07/12/political-discrimination-as-civil-rights-struggle/
TLDR: Ivy League women won't date Trump supporters, which is a sign that all conservatives will soon be fired/not hired by elite institutions everywhere, and the government must intervene!
This reveals the predilection among many young elite Americans for progressive authoritarianism, a belief system that justifies infringing rights to equal treatment or free speech in the name of the emotional “safety” of historically marginalized race, gender, and sexuality groups. In this left-modernist worldview, conservatives’ resistance to racial, gender, and sexual progressivism mark them as moral deviants. As Millennials take power, this generational earthquake is set to shake the foundations of the cultural elite to its core, leading to pervasive discrimination against, and censorship of, conservative views.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
soon only the woke will reproduce
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
sounds like that JMU econ prof’s suggestion that incels be provided sex
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
guys
Biden's vaccination mandate is unconstitutional!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 September 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
somebody had to say it. eventually someone says it about every action taken by government, including the income tax. and mccarthy is just the dope for the job.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Friday, 10 September 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
Andy McCarthy, in favor of torture and indiscriminate bombing when Bush sat on the imperial throne.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 September 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
Dang, I kinda liked "St. Elmo's Fire."
― Richard Marxist (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 September 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
it has come to my attention that rod dreher is getting divorced and has moved to budapest; no word on whether this experience will prompt another conversion
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 July 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
lmao of course
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Sunday, 17 July 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
I hope he writes a novel
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 17 July 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
I hope he starts a suicide cult.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 17 July 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
Why are these people so dramatic?
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 17 July 2022 23:00 (one year ago) link
I think he’s having the time of his life. I don’t know how he’s fixed for disposable income but being a weird natl conservative on the internet is key to that flow
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 17 July 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
I heard that these conservatives moving to Hungary for the fascism usual only last a year or so once they realize that, for instance, you get fines for putting the wrong kinds of plants on your balcony.
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
i miss these guys
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 30 September 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
was about to post the same
Even Mona Fucking Charen has joined the resistance:
https://www.thebulwark.com/what-country-is-the-wall-street-journal-living-in/
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 September 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
Hahahahaha https://t.co/nRaZhwvxqt— noah kulwin (@nkulw) January 3, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
Minority opinion on here I'm sure but I kinda like French. I think he's wrong about a zillion things of course, but he's super critical of the current evangelical-political movement, and he and his wife have done legit investigative journalism in exposing some religious sexual abusers. I'll take him over Brooks and Douthat, however low that may be setting the bar.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
I don't like French but, yeah, he's better than the others; it's just infuriating, though, that the NYT has a ticker-tape parade every time they add yet another conservative to their op-ed section.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
Is there even anyone actually good in the NYT columnist rotation? Jamelle Bouie I guess. So tired of almost all of them.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
bouie is excellent. michelle goldberg and zeynep tufekci are good.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 19:28 (one year ago) link
check out what you're missing in the washington post op-ed section!
https://i.imgur.com/ze02A1i.png
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 20:15 (one year ago) link
bouie is in his element on tiktok and twitter imo
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:11 (one year ago) link
wrong thread?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
lol AOC missed vote 3 and I think I heard her holler "Jeffries!" a few seconds later.
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:42 (one year ago) link
whoops def wrong thread
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-often-do-men-think-about-the-roman-empire/
Apparently, men think about the Roman Empire frequently. This is news to most women, who I’d venture rarely obsess over Marcus Aurelius.
A TikTok video of a woman asking her husband how often he considers the Roman Empire went viral this week. He responded without pause that it was an “everyday thought.” More women are adding to the trend, asking their spouses and boyfriends how much brain space Rome occupies.
So, men: Is this serious? How often do you think about the Roman Empire? There are many reasons to think about Rome — reasons one of my dude-brained colleagues will probably flesh out in the future — but women . . . don’t. Or, at least, we think about it less frequently. Although I’m reminded of Rome often, it doesn’t pop into my head randomly, except in the cases of a few Catholic or architectural queries.
That men and women are different is, it seems for many online, still shocking. To destroy, conquer, and build empires has historically been the stuff of men. While there’s room for sexes to blend their interests, women tend to care more about the social aspects of history and probably identify better with aesthetic traditions (Jane Austen’s romanticism, Renaissance art, qualities of various royal reigns) instead of specific eras.
There’s no cause for social uproar every time we notice another distinction between men and women — isn’t it enough to just admit that we’re different? This week’s viral trend will probably manifest into think pieces over how the Roman Empire came to be a male-exclusive interest, or how more women need history degrees.
The Rome discourse mirrors an office discussion we had the other week, about our favorite films. The men couldn’t narrow down their lists unless they devised categories, and even then, there was painful debate on the merits of each movie’s script, score, and technical quality. Meanwhile, I’ve had the same favorite movie for the past decade, and my girlfriends agree that we choose our favorite films based more on emotional appeal than anything else.
Thousands of years have passed, and hundreds of empires have burned, only for men and women to remain fundamentally different. Some things never change.
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Wednesday, 13 September 2023 23:59 (seven months ago) link
how many ages henceshall this our lofty scene be acted overin states unborn, by dudes as yet unknown
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 14 September 2023 01:57 (seven months ago) link
been too long
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 September 2023 03:19 (seven months ago) link
Still got it
Conservative media is the most robust affirmative action program in the world pic.twitter.com/RHtPQhV00r— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) December 6, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 7 December 2023 05:12 (five months ago) link
singing "imagine there's no country" at the funeral of a country singer smh
― symsymsym, Thursday, 7 December 2023 05:30 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/HEtfLKO.png
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 February 2024 15:57 (two months ago) link
Now I can't unsee it
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 23 February 2024 16:00 (two months ago) link
missed u boo
Entirely reasonable description of January 6 as an event in which 'many of the...protesters broke the law in what may have started as a protest but turned into a riot.' Especially so in light of absence of DOJ insurrection charges against anyone involved. https://t.co/FfQfKTjYet— Byron York (@ByronYork) April 5, 2024
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:50 (one month ago) link
probably need a new thread but that site is full of tired cranks griping about woke
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 April 2024 19:51 (one month ago) link
Are you familiar with that old joke from the Eric Andre Show, where the host asks a guest, “Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?” It’s become ironically memetic shorthand for moments when someone expresses an entirely banal or inoffensive opinion. And yet, strangely enough, Fetterman’s position on the Gaza war fits this frame to an almost shockingly perfect degree: It’s both popular among his constituents, and certainly among Americans at large, while also authentically controversial and brave, certainly when compared to where his Democratic peers in the Senate are. I hesitate to speculate about the origins of the seeming change that has come over him, other than guessing that the discipline and strength of character required to recover from a life-altering stroke also suggests a certain willfulness. (To be fair, I do also like my other theory, which is that Chuck Schumer unwittingly leveled him up by stuffing him back into a suit.) Fetterman has clearly demonstrated he is now his own man and also a savvy hand at public relations; I doubt he’s unaware of the political armor his medical situation gives him, and good for him — he’s wearing it straight into battle.
― President Keyes, Friday, 5 April 2024 20:00 (one month ago) link
Ah yes that old joke
― symsymsym, Saturday, 6 April 2024 04:32 (one month ago) link