Since we’ve got half a dozen Shapiro fans here to troll and reach new heights in intellectual dishonesty, why don’t all you ethically-challenged trolls explain exactly what is so smart and good about his vapid opinions and bigoted output? Go ahead, stop whining about how we don’t “know his work” and put up or shut up.…

How many of you shitstains are there infesting this site? Or is it one guy using multiple burners, because you all use the same stupid troll arguments. 

Yeah, I’ve listened to your charlatan. I’ve seen more than I’d ever want to of his “thought”. He’s a fraud, and a freshman Poli Sci student could tell you that.

Where did all you smarmy white nationalist cunts come from?

Oh shut the fuck up. Shapiro is a racist misogynistic authoritarian and fits the term “fascist” to the hilt. His political ideology is indistinguishable from the neo-fascist cretins that make up most of his fans. Try harder next time fake professor (FYI, the field you should’ve claimed expertise in was political…

Says some nameless troll here to troll, screeching about how some worthless charlatan that has never displayed a single bit if expertise is a genius. I’m smarter than that monumental prick. That’s not bragging, the vast majority of people I know are smarter than him too. Not to mention better people, since they have…

Even by Fox standards, Shapiro is completely unqualified. He’s a self-published troll. There is literally no topic I’ve ever seem him pontificate on in which he displayed an above-average level of knowledge. He’s just the alt-right troll’s more formal-language-minded cousin.

Oh fuck off you racist bloody troll. I remember your username. You’re always pulling this shit. Go back to your white nationalist blogs you pathetic lying sack of garbage. 

The scary part is I doubt it was intentional. I mean he’s stupid, no doubt, but I’d guess he’s just so deep in the far-right radicalization process he used shekels without thinking, which is pretty common in the white nationalist/neo-Nazi fever swamps. It’s such normal rhetoric to him he didn’t consider that it’s…

The comments in this thread are exactly why they get pissy over the disrespect of not learning the basic pronunciation used by people from there. All the stupid stereotypical comments here show that most people don’t know a damn thing about the region except some poor jokes. But hell what do I know I’m just from…

Without a plan, and “end to the war” could be just as bloody and expensive as continuing it. That’s the primary problem here. There is no viable plan for an exit. 

Polling shows that over-estimation of Muslim (and also foreign-born) populations is routine. It’s a bit absurd. There’s always this idea that there are scary violent Muslims out there. It’s not backed up by anything but racist conspiracy theory media, but fear-based hate-narratives sell. 

If you go to fairly niche papers yeah. al-Monitor and the The Diplomat (Middle East and Asia respectively) tend to be better. Outside of that, well I’m not sure. Even generally good outlets publish some real howlers in the Op-Ed section. 

This has blown up on Twitter among MENA experts and people who you know, actually live in London. It’s a horribly racist piece from one of the charlatans from the faux-centrist site Quillete.

There’s solid evidence that far-right groups have been recruiting heavily from cops, ex-cops, and ex-soldiers in order to help them embed in into power structures. The police seem to have the worst of it, though trying to radicalize ex-soldiers is very risky and at one point DHS seemed concerned about it. They’re…

This stuff is only going to get worse. No one is working the far-right extremism angle competently in the US or Europe, and it feels like no one will until it’s too big of a problem for easier solutions. Entire radicalization networks that are barely being watched, and half the ones being watched are by NGOs with no…

I honestly doubt they do. In the abstract hitting someone for a DUI/DWI seems like a great attack. Not so certain it’ll work in reality. Most DUIs are first time offenders who never reoffend, which means a solid part of the population has some relationship with someone who made that mistake, which makes it a…

But will this ruling have any practical effect or will the GOP and their allies in the judiciary manage to smother the ruling long enough to make this nothing but a symbolic victory?

You might be surprised by the opinions of some folks who had good reasons to hate John McCain’s policy preferences, but had surprisingly high opinions of him as a person. Arab Twitter has had a lot more nuanced takes than English Twitter, ironically. 

The body politic runs on “dumb theater”. This sort of symbolism plays an important role in how societies think of themselves and how they perform out their values and ideas. It all is very dumb, but it’s also fairly important despite being dumb because this is one of those bigger social norms that people care about…