You know who else supported the NATO-led intervention in Libya? Most Libyans. It’s weird how that’s become a litmus test. You can’t revise history that many people lived through and watched as it happened. 

Tanden is awful, and Kessler is awful, but Sanders’ criticism strikes me too far into the conspiratorial to be particularly defensible. Kessler is awful in a lot of ways, but it’s far more likely it’s his biases and not Bezos. Sanders could argue he doesn’t get treated completely fairly by a lot of media because of…

But noted racists can still write op-eds pushing nakedly dishonest theses under your masthead. The rot goes a lot farther than one idiot misbehaving in Twitter. Why does Bari Weiss’s long history of harassing Arab and Muslim, particularly Palestinian, activists and academics not count?

Oh Gods, the Examiner is so bad. They make the Washington Times look halfway decent, because while the Times has a solid right bend they do more actual neutral stories on local issues. The Examiner is a stable of incredibly incompetent and often creepy men. That’s the paper with the creep who took covert photos of…

Already did. The greys are particularly troll infested today. 

Apropos of nothing, but I can’t get over his name meaning “chicken farmer” in Maltese, which was an evolution from “abu dajjaj” in Arabic.

“Barton Swaim” is the kind of name that manages to imply family wealth and insufferable politics from the get-go. I’m truly impressed. He looks like one of those earnest and bigoted conservative teens who carried briefcases in college and argued with professors on topics they barely understood.

You shouldn’t even be able to call that a poll. You lead them to the result you wanted through bad faith manipulation! You’re not polling their opinions. Politico needs to be better than to run garbage like this. It’s unethical. This poll has no scientific validity. Even as a way to test talking points it’s mostly…

Yeah, I completely forgot that. Brains don’t work so well when you’ve barely slept in three days.

This would seem to be a relatively simple free expression issue. I’m not a lawyer though, but this isn’t “person ignores HOA rules and does outrageous thing that could affect the property value of neighbors”. This is a simple bit of speech that has no real negative impact. 

Honestly, I don’t know. It’s not a recognized slur for sure, but there’s very much a sense of “targeting your ethnicity” behind it. It’s definitely not equivalent to serious slurs, Cuomo is being way too dramatic, but at the same time I think the intent was more or less to use it as a slur.

A “war on terror” framework is just as likely to fuel radicalization as to diminish it. The evidence that much of the system works on Islamists is definitely mixed. The government creating “terrorists” to thwart using undercover agents who provide so much support to some radicalized and angry kid, helping them get…

I feel like Trump’s idea of nature is a golf course, a place that’s ecologically next to useless and heavily controlled. If he’s ever been in true wild land it was probably decades ago.

Sounds like a really dumb and cliched movie. How many times has the “rich people hunt other people” thing been done?

It’s not wildly different from Islamists. In their form the west is colonizing the region and trying to force changes to Islam, as well as killing their people (the last one of course, being more true than most of us would like).

A certain part of the radicalization process is the dehumanization and justification of violence against the targeted group. In his mind, these people are a threat to him, already harming him and other whites, and thus legitimate targets. It’s not mental illness, but “crazy” in the vernacular isn’t too far off. 

Sorry, I don’t mean to take this out on you. But this abusive troll has triggered something pretty serious in me. No doubt that’s what gets him off, that’s usually the case for his kind. 

Two dozen, probably, but this is far far beyond trolling. My family was threatened. This shouldn’t be okay. This shouldn’t be ignored. I can’t find any contact for someone over something like this, so I guess the fucking Nazi-lover and his abuse wins.

Yeah, I’m not buying “just dorks”. This here, this was textbook abuser behavior. The kind of stuff you do when you get pleasure from harming others.

How does such a nakedly abusive troll get so many followers. That’s failure of moderation right there.