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“Look, we gotta gas some of the untermensches, that’ll make the bloodthirsty horde satisfied so they won’t gas all of them. What? Don’t be ridiculous, they won’t get more bloodthirsty.”

There’s no “thing” there to be sacrificed. It’s not like the handful of progressive Dems have this grand agenda they’re on the verge of implementing. And not just because TPTB are opposed, there’s like 4-7 members of “The Squad” in a body of 435. There’s no unilateral path there.

The most impactful thing that can be done in that position is giving a voice to the message that the leadership is broken and decrepit and needs an overhaul.

My hunch is, they’re prioritizing collection/analysis/reporting of new hiring information, while firing data gets backburnered. So it’s not until the audit way down the line that they go “oopsies, we over reported by 30%.”

Bidenomics, baby!

Missing the bandwagon by a few years there

“Excuse me, sweaty, there is no medical condition called ‘ligma’, I suggest you stop spreading fake science.”

There’s a long history with right wing culture warriors adopting a “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach. Outrage at the thing du jour, if it doesn’t get traction then abandon it. If it does, proceed to make epic amounts of hay over it. Often two things that seem more or less the same, one will get no attention and the other becomes a lightning rod. I guess Wukong has whatever sauce to make it the latter.

Is he laughing at his own joke? Or is he laughing at the dorkiness of the “ackshully the site was picked back when Harris was the VP I rate this claim five Pinocchios” fact checking?

There’s a certain paradox at play here. The argument has long been, sexuality and gender identity are innate, you’re born that way. It’s a useful framing both because it’s an absolute reflection of gender and sexuality on a personal level, but also moves LGBT status into the realm of intrinsic characteristic, similar to ethnicity or national origin.

But people chose what’s more socially conducive over their innate characteristics all the time. A cop can hate what they do for a living all they want, they’re still a cop at the end of the day. So from a social standpoint, the Larry “wide stance” Craig’s of the world are straight. And historically this has been a thing, societies in which people (mostly men) having same-sex intercourse is accepted, or at least a blind eye is turned to it, but they’re still expected to maintain a heteronormative household.

There’s a rough analogy with race here. Much as the personal aspects of race are recognized as separate from the systemic aspects, personal sexuality and social sexual identity are separate. You can’t choose the former but you can choose the latter.

It’s estimated there’s 1.6 million child laborers working in the cocoa industry in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.

Okay it’s silly to say she’s the new Pelosi; they’d never let her be speaker of the house.

The group sent masked protesters to the home of a Jewish regent in the middle of the night and vandalized his law office.

Chait: “Forty thousand dead Gazans? I sleep. Overpaid college bureaucrat get his office spray painted? Real shit.”

To the extent progressives feel any discomfort with the goals or methods of protesters, they tend to rationalize them by invoking noble protests from past eras.

As opposed to rationalizing current genocides by invoking ones from past eras.

And the groups organizing the protests exert significant control over their messaging, which is why you never see a sign or a chant at an encampment denouncing Hamas along with Israel or calling for a two-state solution.

Because so many pro-Israel protesters go out of their way to condemn the IDF.

Before October 7, in fact, the Netanyahu government deliberately cultivated Hamas as a counterweight to more moderate Palestinian factions.

That shit goes back to the 80’s; typical “it’s not Israel it’s that gosh-darn Netanyahu” apologia.

This is an entirely different question from whether one believes the Palestinians deserve sympathy or that American policy toward Israel needs revision. On both points, I believe the answer is “yes.”

American supporters of Israel have habitually smeared critics of Israel, even the mildest and friendliest ones, as antisemitic.

Such as the dastardly Johnathan Chait.

Settler colonialism delegitimizes its targets without offering a workable program for replacing them

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Even aside from the devastation in Gaza, Israel has abandoned the two-state solution and is permitting Jewish terrorists to brutalize Palestinians in the West Bank.

That is a feature, not a bug, of ethnostates.