Really this sort of bait-and-switch shouldn’t be legal. The intent is to gaslight people. But since money is speech according to the rich companies and people who astroturf these sorts of campaigns I expect it’ll be awhile before there’s a chance to rein it in. 

Even one DMV per county can be pretty rough on some people. Especially in states where crossing the county can be an hour drive and the DMV is stuck off of a highway out of the way.

Not that I’m surprised by this, but the Brennan Center checks their bloody work. This deserves way more press than it’s likely to get. A lot of people dismiss think tanks and partisan activist/pressure groups as “biased”, and in most cases they are, but the good ones do really solid research with a clear methodology.…

Honestly, it’s gotten to the point where if it’s on when I turn on the tv, still on Cartoon Network from Adult Swim the night before, I just leave it on. It’s right in that genre of absurdist humor I’ve loved since my parents showed me Monty Python as a kid. 

No, they’re all older. 

This is false. He HAS apologized for the tweets before, and the broader shock jock act in general. There’s an interview for Guardians of the Galaxy 2 that covers it. 

YES IT FUCKING MATTERS if he means it or not.

Which is less horrid than shit Cernovich says all the time, so why the fuck are we letting him be in charge of the standards here?

What he was doing was an act. The edgelord act was part of the persona he put up, and was encouraged to do.

The number of often less than competent right wing talking heads who “monetize and politicize” their public service is nearly endless, and filled with far more charlatans than their counterparts in the center and left.

Then why are you posting their filth here you jackass? That image is being widely shared by neo-Nazi accounts.

Oh yeah, this is a major win for Russia. I don’t think most Americans understand how much they’re punching above their weight lately. They just cancelled the mass production of the SU-57, meaning they’ll have no 5th gen stealth fighter, because it’s too costly for them (it costs way less than an F-35 and probably…

We can’t put a number on that. How much did it shift the vote? That’s impossible to know. We just don’t have the data. There are some educated guesses I’ve seen, but the data just isn’t there to prove it and so they can weaponize that uncertainty. You need a rock solid argument for it to gain any traction in today’s…

Well, the harm would be I can’t possibly respect someone behaving in such a manner. It took all I had to keep my responses here as polite as they were. I’m going to look into it though. This sort of capricious and childish moderation is why I quit Disqus. 

Why would he care? His base doesn’t care, and the GOP is too spineless to criticize him openly.

The media likes making itself the story, particularly when it involves TV personalities (and somewhat lesser radio ones). They expect better cause they’re all in the same club, but that fraternity is a social fiction and the centrist press like CNN hasn’t understood that yet. Their entire view of themselves is based…

Hey, how do you usually contact the site. I want to fight this bullshit “auto-ban”. 

So this is it huh? You banned me for mild criticism meanwhile the neo-Nazis in the greys never get banned? Nice to see what your priorities are. I’m going to contact the people at the site about this, because your ego isn’t a valid reason to ban people.

Unless they face consequences for their failures, this is just meaningless bureaucratic navel gazing. In some cases there’s nothing someone could reasonably do in the face of outside events, but I’m not convinced the institutional culture at FEMA is strong enough to set those apart from preventable failures and…

I was right from the beginning.