The longer this goes on, the more I worry about the reaction from the mainland. The propaganda is working, for mainland Chinese at least (as well as a bunch of useless tankie leftists, the same ones that support Assad mostly). I think it’s only the visibility that’s kept a severe crackdown away but the longer this…

There’s no chance for some niche far-right clothing company to make a profit if they were made in America, even given the absurd prices on their wares. They definitely don’t have the volume. Of course, this is really about their hypocrisy.

It’s worth noting, it was a political Trump appointee at the top responsible for the museum’s reaction. Though of course they were trying to leverage the reputation of the museum and it damaged it even though I expect most of the staff are far closer to AOC than Trump. 

Reason continues to be trash, publishing all sorts of bad faith actors and their assorted bigotries. They continue becoming more like Quillette-lite. Same stupid racism, same aversion to facts and evidence, same whiny defensiveness at their shoddy reporting, just without the phrenology and slightly better standards.

Lots of people here and on Twitter misquoting the ruling against Trump’s blocks to justify telling her to unblock a few racists and abusers.

Congratulations troll. Would you like to discuss civilian casualties from Russian bombardments in Syria? 

So, looking at a refresher on the Northern Alliance, there was Dostom, who is Uzbek. Mohaqiq is probably who you’re thinking of, and he’s an ethnic Hazara. They’re both from the north, Mazar-e-Sharif and Balkh (not far away) respectively. Noor was another one, also from Balkh province.

Oh we can crack it. That’s not the problem. Don’t underestimate ethnographers or people on the ground. The problem is there are too many ways for powerful and influential men to redirect that aid at multiple stages for their own benefit. Not to mention, in some cases, people will hand it over voluntarily. Those…

Eh, that’d have limited usefulness just because most of it would go to a few major corrupt politicians and regional warlords. That’s the problem with a lot of the aid. Afghanistan’s complexity has defeated even well-designed aid programs. The warlords are probably about to get more power too, as a counterbalance to…

This entire program is farcical. The Afghan government hates these negotiations. The Taliban knows they have a strong hand and can wait us out, and are even more emboldened by Trump’s idiocy. The DoD and State are trying to build something at least marginally successful and protect some gains made by Afghans,…

The Lion Guard is a bit more than “pro-Trump”. They’re definitely violent far-right and aligned with white supremacists. 

No one took any responsibility. The Caller, which publishes all sorts of bigotry with regularity, essentially just played the victim. The other two just denied it. The comically bigoted “Western Civilization” think-tank, which I bet couldn’t define that term in a neutral way if anyone asked them, tossed some bigotry…

Ah, you’re incredibly stupid. My mistake. 

There is no such thing as a “right to exist”. It does not exist in international law. You cannot cite any treaty or even part of customary law that defines it.

I’ve given up on that battle. There’s a lot of international stuff I think that could actually drive comments but I just don’t think they have the staff for it. Stuff like this is easy, and going for low-hanging fruit right now, with journalism basically failing as an industry, is probably smart. Comments drive…

They’ve put loyalists in every major national and state position, and changed rules on the state level in multiple states. I don’t think they got their big “absolutely no other primary candidates allowed” rule. But they’ve got control of everything to de facto enforce that. Walsh could sue, but I doubt he’d win and I…

The party apparatus will not give anything to Walsh. Trump and his loyalists have already made sure of that. They’ve made it impossible for any Republican challenger to access the RNC’s resources. They laid that groundwork over a year ago in some cases.

He’s just as much a worthless racist and this “what about civility??” farce will just pad his pockets and raise his profile for future grifts. You could maybe, if you’re very gullible, waive away half of his statements, but this isn’t even all of it. His Islamophobia is serious, deeply embedded, and not something he’s…

I’m bringing this idiocy out of the greys so everyone can familiarize themselves with the username of what seems to be yet another useless troll. There’s a couple similar comments like this bashing Splinter. The “I like Joe Biden and if you disagree with me it’s because you don’t respect black people” comment had a…

Which policies, be specific. His policy proposals haven’t been very specific yet. Nothing compared to Warren.