“We are what we pretend to be” — Vonnegut

Hammer worked for Shapiro’s website and echoed his regressive and racist views. They are more than buddies, they are clear ideological peers.

True, but that’s the entire point of the article.

Yeah, that’s also not fascism. And get out of here with your “you’re intolerant of my intolerance!” bullshit.

Cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias are extremely powerful. When you’re mad at the mean SJWs that don’t let you talk about how the blacks are lazy and prone to crime without calling you racist, and then this guy that talks fast and angrily and always seems to have five rapid-fire rebuttals starts saying the…

And you’re misrepresenting the article and “this site.” The entire second half of the article addresses why it’s a fallacy to pretend that “anti-Trump” conservatives like Shapiro are actually any different. They don’t like Trump because he’s a moron that too often says the racist things out loud that they’re supposed…

Protesting a venue hosting a speaker you don’t like isn’t fascism, numbnuts.

Thank you, “gish galloping” is exactly what he and his fans do. When he’s confronted by anything, he unloads a stream of buzzword arguments that he knows will muddy up any attempt at an actual substantive discussion or rebuttal of whatever terrible stupid thing he’s arguing for. And his supporters use his clips in the…

And it’s extremely telling who’s doing the passing. Its such a strange coincidence how racists, fascists and trolls just f’ing love Shapiro clips, despite his angry protestations when anybody dares label him as such.

I think like a lot of these guys, he buys a lot of his own bullshit. But I think he also buys into the idea that the ends justify the means, i.e. it’s ok to engage in some intellectual dishonesty if can help you “win” the debate.

Great article. This has been the point I’ve been trying to make for at least the last year and even during the 2016 campaigns — Trump is a symptom, not the cause, of the rot in the Republican Party that’s been festering for years if not decades.

I don’t remember it this way at all. NES and SNES games were $50 new back in the day. It was a big deal when games started costing $60, but it made sense considering that with inflation that was still already cheaper than the $50 we were paying for NES games back in the day.

And if hard work was a guarantor of financial success and comfort, we wouldn’t have a problem. But it’s not. So lots of people will get left out of the economy in the near future because they’re not skilled enough to compete for what decent jobs will remain. Whether that’s their fault or not doesn’t matter, they’ll…

All the games back then cost $50. I remember my first ever NES purchase, the extremely shitty Ghostbusters game, for $50 in 1988, which translates to more than $100 in value today.

This has nothing to do with minimum wage. Automation, and the larger effort to reduce labor costs, will march on regardless of whether we pay people humane wages or not. All raising the minimum wage does is accelerate the inflection point at which time machines become economically feasible over human labor.

I have no idea how popular McCabe may be in the department, but f’ing over a career guy like him seems like an effort to make their “Deep State” whining come true.

I mean, of course Sessions did this. Trump and Co. wouldn’t have supported Wray unless they believed he would act directly and immediately in their interests. Any assumption of good faith by anybody associated with this administration is foolish and dangerous.

Oh bullshit. They canned thousands of people to fund those bonuses. The tax cut had little to nothing to do with it.

They’re tricking people like you into coming online and arguing in favor of their benevolence and this tax cut bill. It’s cheap and highly effective PR because people like you eat it up.

I saw this happen about 15 years ago now when one of my professors who taught a sex education class was targeted by a state senator and eventually Bill O’Reilly, who took to calling him a pedophile and promoting the rape of disabled people. (Needless to say, this was extremely false.) At one point he invited some…