And just because I know someone’s going to trot out the fact that Sanders voted for the bill, this is what he had to say, in 1994, about the “tough on crime” aspects of it:

The establishment is looking for any opportunity it can to take the freshman congressional class down a notch, or even bury them entirely. This whole thing is 100% about sinking Omar politically. Pelosi et al really put their weight behind this shit, and now it’s blowing up in their faces. They’ve played their hand,…

Nah. If you’re premotivated to “skew” people’s words a certain way, you don’t get to ask for explanation or apology. The entire reaction to Omar was in bad faith. She did nothing wrong.

Nah, it doesn’t work that way. Just because you can claim to be offended by reading something in the most bad-faith way possible doesn’t mean you deserve any sort of apology or walk-back for it. This is the core problem with contemporary social media rhetoric. Platforms like Twitter are filled to the brim with…

When Omar phrased it as “allegiance to a foreign country”, it was not a difficult stretch for asshats to jump on her. Leaving aside the money and Benjamins (that is completely disingenuous), any hint at dual allegiance is a dog whistle to times past when talking about Jewish politicians.

If I lived in a decent-sized city in a relatively temperate part of the country, I’d want an EV. But I live in a part of the Midwest where it gets butt-ass cold during the winter (we saw an actual low of -46F this January), and can’t stomach the loss of range in cold weather. This is particularly the case since I…

Coal plants? Nuclear?

Yeah, people act like Valve is the only company to ever institute this kind of “elastic clause” policy. No company is stupid enough to try to enumerate every possibility up-front, and then stick to that list no matter what comes down the pipeline. “Oh sorry, you didn’t specifically mention eating shit out of people’s…

You realize that the movie almost certainly needed Cooper in the lead to even get greenlit, right? It’s kind of how Hollywood works.

Yeah, I mean, the way people talk about it around here, you’d think that Steam is literally the only online storefront in existence whose recommendation algorithm isn’t feeding customers exactly what they want, before they even know they want it. I can’t think of a single, specific instance where I saw a…

Let’s not be mushy about this and suggest Omar made some mistake when she didn’t.

This is not hard to understand.

Or is it just complain about Steam/Valve whenever possible?

“It’s our platform. We can decide what goes on it. We’re pretty liberal about that, but a game about rape? Come on guys. Did you really think we were gonna let that slide?”

So you didn’t want them to remove the game? I don’t get your criticism.

Nobody who is serious about anti-Semitism thinks Omar’s comments are worthy of more than “Hey, phrasing!”-level objections. Going forward, she needs to be more studious about not crossing cultural tripwires that centuries of anti-Semitic sentiment have laid in our language and culture.

How is it “gaming” to give a book 5 stars? Like if there are actually bots involved, then fine, take action. But if it’s just people who actually like the book, then how is it different from any other well-reviewed book in existence, other than that you personally take exception to its contents? So far I’ve seen the…

When they’re using crafted authenticity to sell sneakers it doesn’t seem to be much of a problem. When they use it to leverage better salaries or preferred trade situations, though, OMG *clutches pearls*

Well, and also, seriously? Brandbots? These people have fucking sneaker deals (among plenty of other brand deals) just as a matter of course. It really seems like you only become the “shady” kind of PR person when you control a brand or a platform of your own. Really weird double standard there.

But she won the popular vote by millions and it’s only because of the dumb Electoral College that second place got to be President.