This is weird bad faith concern-trolling. 

This is playing pretty poorly even in some conservative parts of Maryland. There’s definitely a “white racist terrified of Baltimore” demographic. But it’s not that large. Even in the mostly-white and more conservative areas a lot of people still go to Baltimore, if only certain parts.

Not proud of how long I looked at this trying to make it make sense in Arabic before I realized it was Farsi.

I agree. He’s shown a lot of seriousness. His name ID isn’t great, so he’s not made a lot of progress as a presidential candidate, but I get the feeling he’s realistic about that and is trying to set some policy goals/debates before bowing out or accepting a VP slot.

Honestly the whole “musicians and politicians do things together” thing has never made much sense to me. I get musicians have political views, hell I’ve been active in the punk scene for years it’s highly political, but there’s something that feels manufactured about “X musician on stage with a politician” to me, even…

He’s the best policy-focused candidate other than Warren, and putting out policies like this is about shaping the field and debate not just about his run. There’s a high likelihood some if not all of it will be adopted by other candidates. Warren in particular, given her perceived weakness on the issue, and a…

Posing with guns like that is at, a bare minimum, enough grounds to investigate rather than claim there’s “no violation of the rules” or whatever their precise wording was. 

There is no evidence that the death penalty is effective in deterring crime. If that’s not the case, it becomes an incredibly expensive spectacle that seems to execute innocent people at a rate that even many proponents of the death penalty find worrisome.

Just because you read that on some hate-site doesn’t make it true. You’re parroting some pretty dull lies at this point. The history of Islam and Muslims is a lot more complicated than your racist idols want you to believe.

It’s vandalism though. They don’t even need to touch First Amendment issues here. 

I’m guessing Ole Miss changes their tune and shoots out a relatively minor punishment eventually. But the fact that they said “nope this act of vandalism doesn’t seem to run afoul of our rules even though it’s nakedly racist and also vandalism” doesn’t really bode well.

I had to look it up since I’ve only been there once, but it was the Camel. My cousin is down there now, though he’s a young lawyer so he has zero free time, but I keep meaning to go down to see him and hit some of the used bookstores in Carytown again. That and I really want to go to that Siné again.  

No gymnastics involved. You’re not competent for such criticism. You don’t know the issue. You’re parroting the lines of far-right charlatans who know little to nothing about Islam they didn’t learn from another incompetent bigot.

I don’t know, depends on the venue. I was at a nice joint in Richmond a couple years back to see a band called Tiny Moving Parts, part of the “emo-revival” wave, and they had a bunch of local beers on tap. Seemed like they sold really well too. Most of the crowd at those emo revival shows are basically the same types…

I honestly think half the time people self-consciously drink PBR because in those circles it’s so strongly associated with the punk scene it’s like a right of passage.

Normally I wouldn’t pull filth like you out of the greys, but your ilk are swarming all the blogs today.

PBR is the beer you drink when you’re at a house show and helping the band unload their heavy gear and you need to walk all the way down to the basement but the stairs are crooked and old. PBR is the beer you drink when you get roped into running sound for some terrible local band because one of them is friends with…

It’s already been promoted by all the “Maybe Islamophobia is rational crowd”. A few have had the decency to delete it, but the damage is done and I doubt any of them will question the prejudices that lead them to promote the smear. A lot of the supposedly moderate or centrist sites and writers that have bigoted views…

Sometimes I wonder if there was a window of balanced internet saturation and we’re passed it. It’s hard to say, since I lived it, but back when things were a bit less online I feel like maybe teens were more skeptical of the internet, or more used to needing to go digging, or some other variable I’m not thinking of.

Hawley is a big candidate for “Trumpism after Trump”. Trump’s voters want someone they see as more successful than themselves, so his elite pedigree may not be a hindrance. Inconsistency in his message won’t bother people who’ve supported Trump. Ranting about “cosmopolitans” is a dog-whistle and everyone knows it, and…