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Hot Take - Rome Was Bad
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Looks like there’s some support for my hunch being reported out now. Not necessarily because of Assange’s December testimony in an espionage case, per se, but because the prosecutors have been leveraging a variety of the things Assange did against Manning to try to break her silence / will: https://www.emptywheel.net/2…
I think that may honestly have something to do with her suicide attempt. In December Assange testified in an intelligence case in Spain, and I don’t know how quickly that information made it to her ears. But I bet by now it has, and I bet it makes everything she’s doing right now seem pointless and hopeless to her,…
You are describing homophobia.
So it’s like an ice cream headache thing?
I’ve been around long enough to remember the outrage in response to the mass graying (just wasn’t commenting), and honestly I don’t have a problem with commentor purges. If you’re not doing active moderation, you need to do periodic assessments, and some of that is going to result in people who are approved to comment…
Comments on the G/O sites are dying because Gray status is what you start as, not what you end up as if you step out of line. The default is set wrong. Trust should be granted until proven otherwise, and no amount of past “good content added” should be enough to permanently whitelist the responses from someone who…
It’s totally crazy having to find out what’s going on with a website’s editorial independence from other websites, isn’t it?
Do you know the only thing that matters about youth sports, in the macro level? Participation. Participating in sports has social and physical health benefits, which is why many schools encourage or require students to participate in them. But which particular child wins that sport is ultimately meaningless, and is as…
Oppressive power structures love it when the plebs use violence. There is no greater justification for their brutality and oppression than civil unrest.
Two things. One, we disagree over the severity of harm here. Ironic antisemitism helps normalize antisemitism, which is on the rise. So you seem to be dismissing his statement as harmless, while I disagree... we’re in effect looking at a slow-moving riot situation when it comes to the breakdown of norms around open…
Dude, it’s been like less than a week. Forgiveness is not something instantaneously granted upon demand. Actions lead to consequences, and then atonement leads to forgiveness. We are in the consequence part of the cycle here. The consequence of embarrassing his employers is a financial hit and the consequence of…
Either that’s the correct usage of “fun fact” or I’ve been using that one wrong for years
I wonder if this is a problem related to the practical effects of representing a class of employees statistically more likely to have brain damage? I don’t mean to say that flippantly, but it also seems like worse outcomes to collective action might be a foreseeable consequence of trying to organize a group of people…
And it’s one of those situations where it does not get better when you look into the details! It’s a perfect storm of nepotistic influence over government, rape culture, overriding and firing specialist women based on a man’s stubbornly held belief, and bad criminal justice policy instincts. Thanks for highlighting…
Sometimes, when I’m holding things in that need to break through, I find watching something really emotionally manipulative (stuff that “tugs on the heartstrings”) a good way to break through and get the crying started. And yeah, I was in tears when I watched the Overwatch 2 trailer. They’re really good at knocking…
Negative six years? Seems like they’ve been passing them pretty aggressively since the Supreme Court gutted the VRA... although there’s an argument that’s a conservative estimate, and it’s more like negative ~15 years since states started to push Voter ID laws (which are a poll tax, a requirement that people meet a…
If only they had an imprint focused on news and current events I could refresh regularly for updates during the workday. I’d probably spend a lot of time clicking on that.
Conservatives, who have launched a full-on attack on trans rights as the new front of their war on LGBTQ rights, have come to realize that painting trans children as the supposedly unwitting victims of child abuse is a potentially winning issue.