@lamecliche@LonesomeWest I think you genuinely just don’t care about the personhood of the elderly woman but you care about the personhood of rapists and migrants because your ideology says you should
This isn’t because they’re pro domestic violence per se, but the more repulsive you are, the more of a leftist client you are, so alleyway rapists get all the benefits of all their doubts
@lamecliche Do you think if this was an ICE agent on trial for murder, he'd refer to him as just "some guy" while heaping scorn on the executioners? The point is that some people who are quick to speak in moral terms elsewhere totally abandon that when it comes to men who abuse women.
@mattyglesias In the United states, the filibuster prevents asylum reform. In the UK, voters have voted repeatedly for immigration common sense, only to be betrayed by electeds. This, too, fosters nihilistic populism.
@mattyglesias In germany the security services literally spy on MPs who dare to coordinate votes with AfD. The bulwarks against immigration legislation are actually a much greater affront to democracy than you’d see from eg Orban. This is a big source of the rage against “democracy.”
@OsitaNwanevu Imagine feeling pride and love in literally anyone or anything, yet expressing this solely through passive aggressive disappointment or “better too little too late then never” head-pats
@OsitaNwanevu “Reagan said something like it [alongside and amidst a career’s worth of other stuff that I, and other sneering leftists, would never say] so it must be patriotic” is not the chud-annihilating argument you think it is