No. The violence and poverty of their countries is what motivates them to attempt to migrate to the U.S. This is true. The attempt to cross a desert or river, at risk of death, is because the normal method of presenting themselves at the border to request asylum is not available to them as a direct result of…

Not true.  They want the Army at the border, shooting people who get too close.

AOC: There is a big problem at the border where there are concentration camps

Seriously. You want to be treated like a journalist, you have to act like one. When you selectively release damaging material to inflict calculated political damage on specific parties in order to advance your own interest, you’re not a journalist, you’re just a hack. And my appreciation of some of the stories he’s…

I am on record as disagreeing with Assange on his failure to properly curate released material, which I have called irresponsible. Edward Snowden shares my opinion. But I don’t believe for a moment that Assange’s authoritarian detractors are sincere when they imply that it’s a lack of redactions that enrages them.…

Oh, no, I totally understand the ad hominem distraction. But you’re focusing on my issues with Assange’s character, and not the way he redacted (or, really, failed to redact) documents to protect individuals during his data dumps—or the fact that he picked and chose what he revealed to suit his own political…

Assange’s disclosures were messy, they made a lot of powerful people mad, and there’s a compelling case that some of then did cause harm.

“Of course it is possible for children, even those who are not immunocompromised, to die from complications of the measles. But not that many.”

Don’t these people know better than to get on a bus with Keanu Reeves? 

Do you remember the whole “sad Keanu” meme from a few years ago? People freaked out because he is so beloved, and all these stories of his kindness and being a great person were shared.

Finding out Keanu Reeves is a genuinely nice guy makes the world seem slightly less shitty.

It’s really not a matter of belief at this point. It’s a fact that they colluded. The only question is whether crimes were committed. 

If a TV show that I’m streaming stutters, it’s annoying, but no big deal.

Short answer: no. Long answer: AHAHAHAAHA of course it fucking won’t! It will crash and burn just like every other game streaming service.

So, they’re going with “witch hunt” for everything now?  I guess, just keep going with it until it stops working with the base.

there is literally no situation wherein a person can ascribe positive qualities (in terms of raw, reptilian effectiveness, rather than any sense of moral positivity/rectitude) to Hitler without looking like they’re praising the man responsible for the fucking Holocaust.

outside of specific academic contexts focused on understanding the history of the man independent of the emotion connected to his crimes against humanity, there is literally no situation wherein a person can ascribe positive qualities (in terms of raw, reptilian effectiveness, rather than any sense of moral…

The most charitable possible read of this situation is “dude was looking at individuals who had effectively channeled their energies and the zeitgeist of their time and culture to achieve their goals, and figured the moral fallout and human cost associated with those goals—and the leadership of those who pursued…

Most people I know that I consider fully formed grown-ass adults have either deleted their personal twitter account or never had one to begin with (myself included). Some still have to deal with it through their business but all of us have to struggle with news media’s inability to distinguish between a tweet and an…

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