Hey, look, it’s the troll, trying to stir up dumb shit between people on the left. Hi there! You’re failing! 😂

Man, you nailed that perfectly and quickly.

I think Lovecraft Country has incredible potential as a series, but I as far as the books go I also preferred the prose of Ballad, which, as you mentioned, is so much more Lovecraftian in tone. That said, I think LC came at some of the points involved from a much different and interesting place in respect to cultural…

I am actually more excited for this series because of the scope it will have to expand on everything that Charles mentioned and the people involved in making it. Contrasting the true scope of everyday horror versus the rare and fantastical is brilliant.

I really enjoyed it as an audio book on my morning commute. LaValle is one of my favorites in recent years: The Devil in Silver, Changeling, the comic limited series Destroyer (an awesome take on Frankenstein) were all memorably great for me, and I’m about to crack A People’s Future of the United States, a short…

I read Lovecraft Country and enjoyed it quite a bit (in a similar intersection of American blackness and Lovecraft I’d also recommend Victor LaValle’s Ballad of Black Tom which I found tremendous... my only complaint was that it is such a short book at about 150 pages and I wanted more of it, which is a complaint I…

Who said it was a thought-ahead conspiracy? As with Omar, it’s a matter of trying to dig up things and turn them into bombshells that they’re clearly not while getting your media buddies to hammer home that it’s anti-Semitism. It happens constantly, as we are seeing right now.

I’m totally happy to leave the final decision on whether you’ve proven Corbyn to be an anti-Semite to other people reading these comments.

Well worth noting that this latest flap was NOT a case of her phrasing incorrectly. It was a 100% valid and not-anti-Semitic way of phrasing things. And that’s why Bernie is supporting her.

No, what he said was that he went to honor the deaths of the people who died in the 85 airstrike. That’s a different group than the terrorists at the Munich Olympics. Again, you can choose to believe him or not believe him. I don’t believe that it’s the obvious slam-dunk you want us to think it is.

From your own link, Corbyn not only claims he was there for the victims of the airplane crash, but there is this quote:

Please give examples that you believe clearly prove Corbyn’s anti-Semitic behavior.

As to your point 5, can we also make so very, very clear the fact that Omar’s comments were not actually anti-Semitic? Putting aside the first time, the whole Benjamins thing (which I think was ridiculous to blame on her, but whatever) what she is being hauled up for this time is ludicrous.

I don’t consider him establishment because in most cases of significant policy he doesn’t support establishment policies. Not on health care, not on economic policy, issues of housing, you know the issues I’m talking about. Why would you label him establishment just because he’s been in government a long time?

We’re watching history. This is literally the end of being able to use this tactic to stop criticism of AIPAC and these aspects of our foreign policy after all these decades. Sorry establishment Democrats... you guys are over. You may fight for a few more years, but on universal healthcare and AIPAC and a Green Deal…

If there’s any ray of sunshine in this otherwise typically grotesque farce, it’s the sign that the traditional strategy isn’t working out for the establishment. Yes, their pet Democrats alongside Republicans are doing this stupid resolution and already they are getting egg on their face. The public isn’t getting riled…

Cletus Van-fucking-DAMME.

Busted. I should also mention that I’m glad they went with the overtly 90s setting.

Well, I think that’s a pretty baseless accusation given his career so far and given that you still haven’t explained how this “bombshell” is him doing his Senate race as he’s always done it.

First, since when is making plans for what happens if you lose a particular election equal to planning to lose? Who in their right mind would assume 100% chance of victory, especially after the verified shenanigans (and I’m being extra polite here) perpetrated against him during the 2016 primary?