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Noah Berlatsky

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5 years

the school just has a no hats dress code. Framing it this way is guaranteed to mean the school will get hate mail, and possibly death threats. good job, CBS.

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Student criticizes dress code after being told she can't wear "Make America Great Again" hat to school

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Noah Berlatsky

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Bill Maher is a racist, misogynist, Islamophobic shithead. fuck him.

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it's depressing how free speech discourse virtually never touches on Heather Heyer, who was literally murdered for speaking against fascism.

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@CarolineRose79 @SleepyOktobur you're targeting your own child on twitter. you may not realize this, but by doing this you are guaranteeing that they will be mobbed by transphobes on here. you're bullying your own child and encouraging transphobic harassment. please, please reconsider.

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if Milo isn't able to speak it's a slippery slope back to a few years ago when outright Nazis were not included in mainstream dialogue.

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"Hi, I don't understand the difference between land mass and population. Send help."

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7 years

Open Nazism is not very popular. But the idea that feminists, trans women, black women, need to be put in their place is very popular.

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4 months

"if trump is taken off the ballot his supporters will respond with violence" is literally saying the law is whatever fascists want it to be because you're afraid of them. 1

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@CarolineRose79 @SleepyOktobur just, apologize, delete the tweet. figure out some other way to talk about this with your child that does not involve targeting them for a right wing mob.

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Noah Berlatsky

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5 years

this isn't really what happened. Frederick Douglass didn't debate slave owners; if he had gone to a venue controlled by slave owners, he probably would have been kidnapped and murdered. He gave speeches to abolitionists, rallying people who were sympathetic, for the most part.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

Trump didn't run against it. boneheads like you convinced yourselves that Trump shared your antiwar convictions sans evidence, because you just hated Clinton that much. don't lie to yourself, or to us.

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

4 years

Unfortunately, endless war - in the Middle East and otherwise - is a longstanding orthodoxy of the establishment wings of both parties. It feeds the US economy and its hegemony. Trump won in part by running against this mindless militarism, and now is an embodiment of it.

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the guy on here who wouldn't help his kid get lunch for six hours because he was working on a puzzle is a good example of how parents have tyrannical power which they can abuse in large ways or small.1

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4 years

regular reminder that opening the economy and letting hundreds of thousands die isn't actually going to help th eeconomy because people aren't going to walk past piles of corpses to go buy a fucking burger. 1

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Noah Berlatsky

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6 years

I don't really understand why the response to "Stan Lee harassed women" is "people are still going to see Black Panther"? Lee has almost nothing to do with Marvel creative. He's mostly a mascot at this point—and there hasn't been a boycott suggested.

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Noah Berlatsky

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5 years

my son just informed me that Karl Marx's great grandson is a parkour youtuber.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

just saying this again: everybody in ICE custody right now should be released, granted citizenship, and given reparations immediately. this won't make up for what we did, but it's the bare minimum we should start with.

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Noah Berlatsky

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3 years

again, why is Ocasio-Cortez able to repeatedly, clearly state that the problem is GOP trying to allow businesses to kill workers, while Dem leadership thrashes hopelessly and babbles about how with Biden we don't need as much aid, or whatever?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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These COVID negotiations should be public. The public should be able to see who is holding stimulus checks hostage & demanding immunity for big corporations exposing workers to COVID. The secrecy protects them. It’s harder to do these things without the closed door.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

Tucker Carlson is still a fascist piece of shit. He's against some wars for fascist piece of shit reasons. You don't need to praise him for that, even if you also oppose the war in question.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

the shaun king thing where he goes after a senator who cosponsored the m4a bill shows the problem with targeting people *because they say stuff you agree with.*

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Noah Berlatsky

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2 years

@Vizsla826 @RottenInDenmark we've already lost because massive misogynist moral panics terrorize victims and make it harder for them to come forward, while encouraging bystanders to be flippant and dismissive about serious issues of domestic abuse and misogyny.

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Noah Berlatsky

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5 years

"deplatforming fascists is a slippery slope" where do you think the slope goes when you platform fascists?

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Noah Berlatsky

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3 years

the thing where an AAVE term for antiracist consciousness has been adopted as a pejorative term for antiracist consciousness and white people treat that likes it's completely fine remains repulsive.

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5 years

Warren's plan to stop leopard's from eating your face is a big applause line on the campaign trail. But gets a very different reaction among face-eating leopards.

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Noah Berlatsky

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5 years

it is literally AOC's job to draw attention to executive abuses. "she's grandstanding!"—it's. her. job. Congresspeople are supposed to make sure the executive branch isn't committing human rights violations.

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Noah Berlatsky

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5 years

Ben Shapiro explaining that if he has an LGBT child, he'll abuse them.

Jason S. Campbell

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Ben Shapiro warns that if politicians try to mandate LGBTQ 'indoctrination' at all schools, then he will "pick up a gun." Further adding "Beto O'Rourke does not get to raise my child. And if he tries, I will meet him at the door with a gun"

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 months

SWAT-ing is terrible, and there's a pretty straightforward policy fix, which is that militarized police should not be allowed to storm private residences on the basis of anonymous tips!

David S. Bernstein

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4 months

There have been a bunch of high-profile swatting incidents reported over the past couple of weeks, with political targets on both left and right, and they’re all terrible and should be denounced a lot more uniformly imo

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there is no AI. like, tech assholes have just chosen to name some complex software "AI" so people think of intelligent robots from SF, even though it's not that or anything like that. It's a branding exercise deliberately meant to bamboozle ppl and justify moral abominations.

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Noah Berlatsky

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"we can't follow the constitution because there will be a constitutional crisis" means that we're already in a constitutional crisis. 1

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4 months

@davidkeithlaw what worries me is that red states will now start disqualifying Biden.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

I'll just reiterate that there are virtually no kids who are rich. the money belongs to their parents, who can hold tuition fees over them to force them to take particular majors, to not come out as queer or trans, to stay home, to maintain contact w/ abusive parents.

Amy Klobuchar

@amyklobuchar

4 years

Some of our colleagues who want free college for all aren’t actually thinking big enough. We’re going to have a shortage of plumbers, not MBAs. Our money should go into K-12, free 1-2 year degrees and doubling Pell Grants — not sending rich kids to college. #DemDebate

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4 years

like, Ds won popular vote in 7 out of the last 8 elections. "why aren't they more popular" is not a super thoughtful question. "why do they keep losing even though they are popular" is a more pertinent one, which we all know the answer to, but sometimes conveniently forget.

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Noah Berlatsky

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6 years

"cultural marxists just label everyone Nazis." This is an especially frustrating argument because "cultural Marxism" is literally an anti semitic conspiracy theory created by literal Nazis.

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Noah Berlatsky

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3 years

people saying, "biden shouldn't give joe manchin this much power"—Biden didn't give him this power. voters did when they chose GOP senators in ME, NC, IA, SC, TX, AK, and so forth.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

a huge indictment of US culture is that supposed antiwar leaders like yourself told people that Trump was opposed to war. You still haven't apologized, or acknowledged what you did. Your ability to blame every single person other than yourself is truly amazing.

Glenn Greenwald

@ggreenwald

4 years

This in itself is a huge indictment of US culture. In most countries - pretty much every other one - assassinating a foreign general would be a huge deal. In the US, it induces yawns because it’s what the US does - what it is.

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Noah Berlatsky

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it's an unusually clear statement of how trump just revels in US failure and in imagining US destruction. presidents usually try to project optimism and hope. Trump thrives on the opposite—visions of american decline and apocalypse.

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lmao this is so deranged

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

"i'm happy with children being tortured and increased drone strikes on civilians if my guy doesn't win. ha ha. I'm a podcaster!"

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3 years

GOP pivot from "Biden is too old and lazy to do anything" to "how dare Biden do so many things" was pretty instantaneous.

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to be clear, this is a right wing conspiracy theory designed to scapegoat marginalized people for the failure of Musk's business. this kind of conspiracy theory is intended to direct hate and violence at marginalized people.

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Noah Berlatsky

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blue lives matter is a white supremacist slogan intended to express solidarity with police repression of Black people. it was never meant to express sympathy for police who die doing something other than enforcing white supremacy.

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Noah Berlatsky

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sean davis dismissed the idea that Taylor Lorenz could be negatively affected by lots of death threats and misogynist abuse, but is currently losing his shit because people are tweeting "mommy milky" at him.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

Lady Antebellum just dropped Antebellum from their name. no one wants to be associated with racism anymore, not even country musicians. It's really something.

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Noah Berlatsky

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3 years

the cops murder a child, lie about it, and then the people who say, "this was horrible" are punished with curfews and more police violence.

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5 years

this is really an odd thing to say, because student free speech rights are quite restricted. and in fact kids get disciplined for saying things all the time. insult a teacher and claim free speech rights and see what happens...

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Free-speech rights would make it difficult to discipline students who appeared in a viral photo showing several high school boys giving what appears to be a Nazi salute, Wisconsin school district officials said.

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Noah Berlatsky

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America was founded by violent protestors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Nothing is more unAmerican than protesters who are not peaceful. Disgusting.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

a lot of conservatives are telling you right now that they will support white supremacist violence during the election.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

every so often conservatives are like, "if you cancel ben shapiro we'll cancel bill maher!" and I'm always like, well why haven't you then?! what's the fucking hold up?

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2 years

as I think I've said before, there's a lot of criticizing of D messaging, and often for good reason, but the Jan 6 commission has been just exceptional throughout.

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4 years

I feel like people don't quite understand that (a) we're isolating because we didn't have testing, and (b) we're isolating in part to give govt time to ramp up testing.

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Noah Berlatsky

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texas has about half Italy's population.

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Texas now has more daily coronavirus cases than Italy when it was a global epicenter of the pandemic.

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Noah Berlatsky

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5 years

I don't really understand why Dems think an impeachment would harm them. Trump's extremely unpopular. It's clear he committed impeachable offenses. make the case and let the Republicans staple themselves to him if they want.

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Noah Berlatsky

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i've mostly been joking about the weiss thing but having her whining in public about being criticized as the free speech issue of the decade while thinking about the fact that my friend got her eye shot out by police for doing journalism kind of makes me shake with rage.

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Noah Berlatsky

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for fuck's sake, exactly when do Very Serious Media Shitheads pull their heads out of their asses and stop believing anything Andy Ngo says? He's a fascist propagandist whose avowed purpose is to justify violence against the left. You don't have to take the fucking bait.

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Noah Berlatsky

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3 years

I'm willing for John Kasich to be in the cabinet if it's like an actual cabinet, and we shove him in the bottom drawer and lock it.

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Noah Berlatsky

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4 years

Ricky Gervais is praised for speaking truth to power; Michelle Wolf not so much. It's almost as if Michelle Wolf was actually targeting the powerful and Gervais was doing something else.

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Noah Berlatsky

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5 years

I wrote about GamerGate, which is still, five years later, a misogynist hate mob.

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Noah Berlatsky

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5 years

republicans put a repeat sexual assaulter on the court for absolutely no reason except that they love sexual assaulters. They could easily have dumped Kavanaugh and appointed someone who votes exactly the same way but hasn't tried to rape anyone. thy chose not to.

Ronan Farrow

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Two @nytimes reporters, @rpogrebin and @katekelly , spent months independently reporting out Deborah Ramirez’s allegation against Brett Kavanaugh and found it credible—and documented another serious claim of misconduct with an eyewitness:

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So Carlson's door was not damaged; there were no threats. It was simply a protest. Carlson is a lying piece of shit, and no one should rush to proclaim solidarity with him.

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Noah Berlatsky

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this is horseshit. Trump isn't a working class family man. He's a heir to a real estate fortune who publicly sexualizes his daughter, raped his ex wife, and tried to cut off health care to his desperately ill infant nephew over a financial dispute.

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Baffling as it may be to elites on both left and right, Mr. Trump embodies a real if imperfect model of family values.

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this bit is really funny, but also polygraph tests absolutely don't work at all, and the pop culture copaganda around them is really bad.

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Elizabeth Olsen passes polygraph test saying she's "never met" John Krasinski

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Chris Wallace saying the whistleblower complaint is legit on fox is a pretty big deal, esp. when there's reporting that there's support for moving away from Trump from Fox's board.

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Noah Berlatsky

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6 years

Bernie Sanders sticking it to the elite by (checks back of hand) helping an authoritarian regime demonize its critics and target them for harassment.

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Bernie Sanders slams restaurant for refusing to server Sarah Sanders

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"first they came for the Nazis, and I explained that the fucking quote is about fucking Nazis coming for you, and Nazis aren't coming for Nazis, so if someone comes for the Nazis just be grateful, ffs."

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james comey is a right wing butthead who swung the election to the GOP because of his own partisan instincts, and is supposed to be a moral paragon because he belatedly realized he shot his own dick off.

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6 years

the idea that you can "debunk" conspiracy theories is one of the basic misconceptions which causes liberal free speech advocates to advance fascism.

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3 years

proud boys and cops beating each other up is definitely an "enemy of my enemy is not my friend" moment.

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6 years

Portraying Obama as an aloof elitist and Trump as a true avatar of the disenfranchised volk; how is this tweet not fascist propaganda? NYT keeps finding ways to sink lower..

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President Trump has brought a reality-show accessibility to a once-aloof presidency, invigorating voters who felt alienated by the establishment

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she's a free speech martyr. but none of the free speech absolutists care, because she was killed rather than prevented from going on one of the sunday shows.

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6 years

this is literally what the Nazis did to Jewish people. Before they murdered them.

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Can we just arrest George Soros ad seize his assets already? I am sick and damned tired of hearing about him trying to disrupt our Democracy every day.

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I just wish there was half a minute to think about the women victimized before rushing right to, "how does this affect the movies I want to see". I want to see Black Panther too; that fact just shouldn't have much to do with these revelations.

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5 years

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen this level of vitriol directed at an incoming freshman congressperson. The gop has outright lost its mind.

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4 years

I just asked my son if his trans friends know about Singal's Atlantic essay. He said they all did because it's cited online to harass trans ppl all the time.

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4 years

Trump literally blackmailed the leader of Ukraine as part of the smear campaign you are confusedly defending.

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Leaving all the corruption questions to the side, why was Biden — elected to serve the Americans as Vice President — so active in trying to dictate the internal affairs of Ukraine, to the point of demanding the firing of the chief prosecutor? Why does the US try to rule everyone?

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6 years

are we being asked to throw Jerry Seinfeld under the bus? I am absolutely here for throwing Jerry Seinfeld under the bus to prevent Roy Moore from being Senator.

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6 years

Jerry Seinfeld openly dating a 17 year old when he was 39. Don't you remember the condemnations from the Left? Neither do I. He was 7 years older than Moore who is being called a "predator" for the same thing.

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it's pretty disheartening that one of the most prominent Dem media voices is a guy who's views are largely indistinguishable from MAGA except that he says mean things about Trump.

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"people will lose jobs if you make insurance public" is like saying, "people will lose jobs if you close prisons." the fact that many people have a personal stake in a poisonous system isn't a reason to keep the system as is.

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@CarolineRose79 @SleepyOktobur I'm sure you're upset and you may not understand the dynamic, but twitter is filled with hateful transphobic people. they will use this as an excuse to hurt your child. again, please reconsider.

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Actually, 3 gop senators can stop Muslim ban. All they need to do is refuse to confirm appointees until ban is lifted.

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6 years

When you take away access to online platforms, sex workers are killed at such high rates that you can see the change in *overall* rates of female homicide victims.

Female homicide rate dropped after Craigslist launched its erotic services platform

Sex workers have long argued that online erotic services platforms make their jobs safer. A new study proves it.

thinkprogress.org

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I'm hardly the first person to say this, but we'd have maybe a better grasp on how fascism in the US if we recognized that Jim Crow was an authoritarian regime.

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Noah Berlatsky

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6 years

I think I've said this before, but the reason "virtue signaling" is a thing on the right particularly is I'm pretty sure because the assumption is that racism/sexism is natural/right and anyone objecting is just doing so hypocritically.

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the obviously ridiculous stories about concrete milkshakes are literally fascist propaganda intended to justify murdering people. It's like claims about Jewish people poisoning children as an excuse for pogroms, or lies abt black men committing assault as an excuse for lynching.

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6 years

I think the right take here is "even the right wing warmongering butthead Ralph Peters can't stomach Trump."

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7 years

The idea that Trump is genuine and working class because he is unprepared and ignorant is ridiculous and insulting.

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This press conference is why @realDonaldTrump got elected.It's like he's speaking after 5pm with rustbelt workers at the factory.Genuine

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Claire, I demand you give me space at Quillette to write about how you are a fool and your magazine is awful. If you don't pay me for this article, you are saying you can't come up with compelling counter-arguments.

Claire Lehmann

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If you don't support free speech for people you disagree with, you're effectively declaring that you cannot come up with a counter-argument that is more compelling.

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reading a little about how completely deliberately Star Trek refused to show same sex relationships through the 90s. Like, fans and people on the show would say, we should do this, and suits and Berman just refused because they thought conservatives would criticize them.

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Noah Berlatsky

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Elizabeth Warren has called to break up facebook, institute a wealth tax, and has put forward an impressive and sweeping disability platform. she has an education policy that embraces reparations. that's not a centrist platform in the context of presidential politics.

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3 years

parents are tyrants. "parent" is an oppressive class, like rich people or white people.

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6 years

You literally rose to prominence by claiming the Canadian govt was victimizing you by forcing you to treat trans people as human beings.

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6 years

Victimhood is a nonproductive stance, and one adopted by none of the people in this hypothetical group

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6 years

I don't know why* Schumer, who is incompetent and awful, is barely criticized, while Pelosi, who is excellent at her job and more progressive, is constantly pilloried. *(I do in fact know why.)

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5 years

I don't know the details of what happened in Portland. But calling Andy Ngo a journalist is inaccurate. Doing so gives fascists a propaganda victory.

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@nberlat

4 years

in case it's not clear, Katelyn is being extremely brave in coming forward like this, and may well face retaliation. Singal, free speech champion, has literally used his power, privilege, and resources to get trans ppl who disagree with him fired.

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Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat

5 years

White moderates citing MLK is bad enough, but looking to Frederick Douglass to validate your soppy centrist bullshit is really above and beyond. The most famous passage in his autobiography is the bit where he resolves to physically assault any slaver who fucks with him.

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Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat

6 years

Peterson called Canadian educators a fifth column and said that they be tried for treason. He said that women provoke sexual assault by wearing make-up. He made his career by ginning up fake panic abt "compulsory speech" & encouraging ppl to insult nonbinary students.

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Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat

6 years

Hitler never swept free elections. He was strongly opposed by working class parties, many of whose members he murdered. Maybe read a book? So you can stop apologizing for fascism?

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Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat

4 years

if anyone but a cop did this it would be assault.

Jennifer Brooks

@stribrooks

4 years

Well THAT was uncalled for.

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Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat

6 years

It's racist to frame racism as natural. This is something that is popular with centrist/right leaning sorts who want to sound reasonable and empathetic.

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Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat

3 years

Elon Musk won't let his workers take breaks. Chrissy Teigan orders an expensive bottle of wine. Who gets piled on more?

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Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat

4 years

So, @tianathefirst is not Jewish. She wrote a piece declaring Bernie Sanders only "ethnically" Jewish, and saying he was antisemitic. One thing that is really antisemitic is when non-Jews weigh in on who is and is not Jewish.

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Noah Berlatsky

@nberlat

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He's not just dunking on her. He's knowingly driving a right wing hate mob to attack her, and quite possibly threaten her life.