It’s a global far-right system, enabled heavily by social media as well as friendly media outlets. It lets the far-right punch well above their weight in actual numbers, which is why they’re so obsessed with shifting the Overton window.

Liberal democracy existed only after the Civil Rights movement, prior to that the US was an illiberal democracy at best (arguably closer to herrenvolk, though the line between the two is often muddy). A big part of the problem is that illiberal history. The bigotry we’re seeing now is a reflection of that era,…

The biggest problem is none of this matters. This will sound like hyperbole, but it’s not. This is a full shift into illiberal democracy, the kind of polity you see in Hungary, or Poland, or Israel. Where power is more important than norms, institutions are playthings for power politics, where the majority uses…

Please dismiss the troll responding to you. I think today of all days we don’t need their worthless kind infesting these threads. 

Feinstein was talking about it, among others. The stories didn’t get that much run given all the other stuff, but I can confidently say it was put into the party talking points at one point. Unfortunately by then the process was completely tainted and it was irrelevant. By the time we had clear evidence he lied Trump…

This is war. On minorities, on American institutions, on the entire concept of liberal democracy. The GOP is nothing but soulless power-hungry creatures now. They’ll cheat and use any dirty tactic they need all while lying directly to the American public about what they’re doing.

Bullshit false equivalence. Democrats have actually held some of their own to account, unlike Republicans. 

Democrats have been hitting that point, it’s been part of the regular talking points, it just doesn’t matter. There’s not enough people unconvinced who will listen to evidence at this point, the lines were already drawn and Republicans have emotionally invested in him to the point it doesn’t matter that he lied. 

I’m already taking stock of my whiskey and mixers. When they shove Kavanaugh onto the court the rights of a lot of Americans will become partisan playthings. So I’m going to “do a Kavanaugh” and get drunk. 

Wittes is an intelligent person, which makes it even worse. I sometimes read Lawfare. He’s not irredeemable, which makes his behavior even more infuriating. I can write off Tucker Carlson without regret, but someone who is so frustratingly close to understanding their faults is harder to do. 

I wouldn’t doubt it, given how slow they are to ban literal neo-Nazis and how often they let hate groups get a pass. I mean I’ve reported some blatant “I hate Jews they’re ruining the world kill the Mudslimes” accounts dozens of times before they take action. That’s not a borderline case. 

I honestly didn’t know the meaning of either, prior to hearing them recently. Never used during my drinking and partying days (I’m 28 for reference).

This would be the man that Kavanaugh and his allies keep insinuating has some sort of grudge, though they keep being pretty vague about what or how it’s relevant. I suspect they’ll just continue with the lie they already laid the groundwork for. That’s been their tactic so far.

I mean, objectively this is horrifying and awful.

“How to harass Arabs and Muslims For Notoriety: The Bari Weiss Guide to Committing Racism and Coming Out on Top”.

She just popped up reading an intro poem for a big yearly Irish-language music CD (with Macklemore of all people). That’s literally the only non-acting thing I’ve ever heard of her doing and it just happened.

What a stupid thing to start a fight over.

That’s the part I don’t understand. Nothing about Kavanaugh suggests he’s worth the work of burying it. Now, sure, they’ve invested too much in him. But before? There’s a thousand entitled far-right jackasses who’d love a Fed Soc mark of approval, worship Scalia and Originalism, and secretly believe judicial…

That’s just this time around, and under the Trump admin I don’t doubt it. But his prior confirmation to the bench presumably underwent a much more normal review.

I think that’s a Trump reference, who is supposedly completely sober despite acting like the racist that got kicked out of every bar in town on a daily basis.