I think it’s less about their faith being threatened and more about reinforcing a particular worldview and those who professionally thrive off of that reinforcement feeding it to maintain their status or careers. If you regularly consume media railing against godless Hollywood or liberal elites or some other aspect of…

I just want that one Edward Hopper painting, no, not that one.

I think a factor here is the in-print Cuomo catching up to the TV Cuomo. If you regularly read coverage of New York politics then you don’t really need new reasons to dislike him. His early mismanagement of and clashes with de Blasio over the covid response, which, statistically seems to have cost people’s lives,…

Now now, not no reason, they needed to limit eligibility to save 12 billion in a 1.9 trillion dollar bill because fiscal responsibility is important, dammit.

Lol, Harvard is probably overrepresented when it comes to public/notable/influential figures “fudging” the facts to suit some political purpose.

The red state, following what their constituents want excuse from moderates is a red herring, raising the minimum wage polls well even in West Virginia. Actually a lot of more economically progressive policies tend to poll reasonably well even with Republicans. Flordia passed a 15 dollar minimum wage by 60% and went…

Sure! Also “blacklist”.

Some of the Gnostic gospels have Mary as more important than the apostles, and this being a source of jealousy with some of the apostles, namely Peter, particularly when you get to Jesus challenging Peter’s views on women . It’s worth mentioning that there are a number of Marys, and there’s even debate if the Gospel…

Well, having voiced my one piece of Mary Magdalene trivia, postulate away and roil the fake Jesus people to your heart’s content.

I mean, as an enterprising woman or criticism of the modern economy she might have an OnlyFans, but if you’re thinking she was a biblical sex worker, that comes from Catholics mistakenly conflating Magdalene with two other figures in the bible, a mistake that was recognized and fixed by the Catholic church in the late…

Sure, though in the public context it’s also for all the onlookers feeling adjacently outraged. It’s performative. They demand it then some complain because it wasn’t apologetic enough or wasn’t worded to fit their sense of what an apology should be. It’s not about the victim, you might even say it’s not about an…

Now I want to find this article. Any chance you might remember what website/publication it was?

Isn’t this response in a somewhat similar vein? Why not stop at they’re both abusers and that doesn’t excuse their actions? Why the need to engage in psychoanalysis, admittedly without knowing the situation well, in a way that shifts moral blame?

Biden’s 78 now. Trump also has the ability to whip his voters into a frenzy and get them to the polls. If Biden turns out to be the milquetoast President many on the left think he will be, if the current trend of centrist Dems attacking leftists on, let’s say statistically debatable grounds continues, and if…

Kinda surprised no one’s brought up Tanden’s openness to cutting Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare when the Obama admin was floating it with Republicans.

Florida went Republican but massively supported a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage referendum. Missouri also went Republican but defeated right to work in a referendum two years ago. Another way of looking at this election is that voters are getting tired of the incrementalist promise of establishment Democrats, that…

I think saying every Democrat since FDR/Hoover won by campaigning as a liberal populist is extremely reductive. I’d say the same for saying Republicans have been attacking Democrats as socialists since then. And all Democrats between FDR and Clinton only managed to win one term each, not just Carter.

That works for the GOP because their social and economic policies aren’t really at odds and they’re a broadly unified ideological party. Democrats aren’t, they’re a coalition ranging from the right of center to the progressive left, and policy moderation isn’t exciting, while progressive policies, a source of…

Yeah, cause the con law prof who turned out to be fine with mass surveillance of Americans and a massive expansion of drone warfare that included targeting American citizens using a classified process for deciding which citizen lives and dies with apparently no input from the judiciary would be a great addition to the…

Something like 9-10% of Obama voters went for Trump in 2016. One study puts it at around 9 million who voted for Obama in 2012 then voted for Trump in 2016. The broad takeaway from multiple studies looking at the phenomenon is that they’re economically liberal to progressive while socially conservative and anti status…