This attitude - submitting people to abuses like castration or rape threats because they themselves are abusers - is just law and order conservatism. There’s nothing remotely progressive about it. Progressives used to understand that inflicting evil on evil people does not make you good; it just drags you down with…

Threatening to rape people and threatening to castrate them are incompatible with any kind of moral authority. The idea that those things can be made good by circumstance just shows how far things have fallen.

I’m sure the people calling for castration and camo-clad assault rifle enthusiasts will act only as a force for good.

Being a reader is a lonely enough habit without people insisting we don’t exist.

Why do you go through life drawing these broad conclusions from other people’s reading habits? What’s to you?

What do you care what other people read? Why are you invested in that?

I agree. For the record, I’m a leftist.

But in the era of the internet, where all publishing platforms inevitably run through private intermediaries, your message can be effectively shut down. That’s true because not only are services like Youtube privately held, so are hosting companies that let you set up your own site. So private entities themselves can…

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=scare+quote…

Yes, yes, I know - you learned all of your political philosophy on Tumblr in the past 3 years and are now an expert on all political questions.

I know that this notion that there are no impediments to speech other than governmental interference has become progressive boilerplate, but it’s completely untrue and ahistorical. Both the history of law and the history of philosophy show that these questions are in fact massively complicated, and have always been…

Did you read what I wrote? I in fact agree that, despite the recent unthinking assumption, non-governmental entities can meaningfully obstruct free expression, and that even if they aren’t legally bound to protect it, private entities should respect a norm of free speech, because it’s really hard for a democracy to…

You seem to be taking for granted that this is censorship when there is lots of room for disagreement on that

I really hate the progressive tendency to put the word censorship in scare quotes, these days, as though there aren’t any meaningful threats to the norms of free expression that are necessary to make a pluralistic democracy work. Anyone who’s familiar with the history of this country knows those threats have been very…

... why is the guy in the middle’s head all off-center like that

Thanks!

Quest for Glory 2 is still, after 30 years of playing PC games, maybe my favorite. It’s fantastic.

One of the biggest problems with “prestige television” is that its so associated quality with cinematography and overall high production values that it obscures how bad many of these scripts are. I mean True Detective, as a mystery story, was terrible throughout its run (not just at the end). But nobody noticed…

Star Control II!

Depends entirely on what the meal is. Some are cheaper, many aren’t.