My uncle, a lifelong Republican, has repeatedly called Japan a “shithole” because their GDP & stock market has been stagnant for 30 years.
He then said “well, they need more people, and Japanese ain’t having babies, so gotta get em from somewhere!”
The brain of the average Fox News conservative cannot conceivably think beyond the GDP. They cannot conceptualize nations as anything more than economic zones.
"I demand that we keep America in a deeply unpopular war with Iran that no one aside from me supported from the start, and I'm also going to vote for Gavin Newsom in 2028 if Vance is the nominee."
Ok, so you're just an enemy then. Good to know.
This old psycho, Pier Moron, pretends it’s the Israeli government he is attacking when, in fact, his problem is the Jews defending themselves against Islamist terrorists. First Gaza now Lebanon, he sides with terrorists and platforms terror supporters. Pier is Cenk with a British accent. A loathsome halfwit fired from a newspaper tabloid in Britain for being a fraud. How’d the likes of this creep get a visa in the first place. Now, scurry off to your local pub. Tommy Robinson has you pegged.
Insane thing happened in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Winning lacrosse team seniors photographed smoking cigars while celebrating their graduation. Forced to FORFEIT their entire season just before big playoff game for "violating state athletic association rules against tobacco use."
Parents/students try to claim that the cigars were fake, but a thorough investigation is conducted and a damning receipt from Shaw's grocery store is found (despite parents' attempt to smudge out the date on the receipt).
You live in a prison and you don't even know it.
Reading through the responses to wanye’s posts you can see why our political climate turned so sour. Bringing up topics like “universal suffrage has downsides” or “all politics is ultimately based on violence” which are true but have some uncomfortable conclusions is met by a certain hostile reaction. One that rejects the question all together. One that refuses to even consider the question. In the responses you can almost see John Stewart turning to camera B to flash a face of insincere incredulity.
That’s pretty much the only type of debate my liberal cohorts consumed for decades, and for a certain class of them it’s all they’re really capable of.
(Ohh and that attitude has worked its way into AI)
"There's no way 250k girls were raped by Pakistanis over decades" says the side that believes 1/4 women have been raped.
It's "believe all women" until the women say they perputrator was brown.
Exhibit a: (wait until the end)
A good rule of thumb when it comes to judging the validity of a particular ideology is to ask yourself “if every single person in society did the sort of things this ideology celebrates or makes excuses for, would society still function?”
And it turns out for the Left, the answer is always NO.
There’s something perfect about a NeverTrump neocon looking to a Hillary Clinton voter for insight into the Republican base. They have created their own little bubble of impotent irrelevance.
wanye is ofc totally capable of speaking for himself but the hate for him is familiar to me and i might shed some light on its nature
i dont know him personally but i have the impression that he like many others on this site are roughly like me in the following way: we are americans were straightforwardly and unreflectively liberal, in the old sense, in our youth, and we have grown into early fatherhood watching the national political and intellectual frameworks around which we built our world being shredded by hostile actors and events.
these things that we took for granted are no longer with us or at least under great duress, and values and institutions that we never wanted to question have been despoiled and exploited.
in an age of anomie we interrogate inherited sacredness to understand its nature, that we might better preserve what seems still worthy in this new world to the extent possible. this matter is specifically pressing, i imagine, to fathers who are struggling to conceive of what mores and world-stories they might offer their children as they approach the age of reason.
asking critical questions of sacred matters is necessarily offensive to (1) people who cynically benefit from their ongoing inviolable standing, and (2) to others who more benignly do not regard them as under threat.
here, @JamesSurowiecki plays euthyphro to @xwanyex's socrates.
it's just a soccer game, you might say. but that's exactly why this strikes me as so insane. there are zero stakes, the easiest "I care about america" in the world, and they still can't support our country. in fact, they seem to see any demonstration of support as a liability.
It’s insane that the British prime minister let off over ten thousand Muslim rapists with nothing more than strongly worded letter. It’s the type of thing you’d think a wild eyed conspiracy or a bad tv plot.