It is, no lie, genuinely impressive that Clinton haters coalesced around what is probably the least objectionable transgression she’s ever done because they basically agree with everything else.

Her lengthy campaign to out Crist is what made me go “Wait... whaaaat?” because that’s not something straight people do. They’re not invited to the kiki.

Oh great. An old person who is wrong about things. How absolutely novel and not something I deal with all fucking day.

That’s how it usually shakes out. One of the best summaries I’ve seen is that genuine (typically socialist) idpol wants to elevate all people of colour, women and queer people, whereas neoliberalism wants to have gender equality in boardrooms.

Actually it’s a phrase from weird twitter coined by @dril to refer to people who deal very badly with being owned.

The moderate opinion is whatever has 66% or better on at least three public polls unless it involves raising taxes, improving benefits, or nationalizing something that should be nationalized.

Yeah but it became the gospel for parties that previously wouldn’t have adopted similar policy. The Democrats in the US, Labour in the UK, Liberals in Canada, LDP in Japan, they all pivoted right on economics because it produced short term gains that we only really started to see the consequences of during the…

... There are commonwealth countries that aren’t part of the UK. Do you know how countries work?

You clearly, You’re still posting like some corncobbed binch.

I think that’s why he works though. Black Mirror’s best episodes rely on you getting to know and empathize with the baddie because the central premise of the show is that humans keep inventing stuff that enables our worst tendencies.

Oh no. You caught me. I live in the commonwealth and not the US, and it’s not as if US policy EVER IMPACTED A FOREIGN COUNTRY EVER

Basically it’s an economic policy that arose in the wake of the perceived failure of Keynesian economics and really took off after the oil crisis. Think Carter and Reagan in the US, Thatcher and Blair in the UK. In essence it revolves around privatization but with a very novel core idea. Rather than embracing a pure…

It is terribly interesting how instead of actually addressing anything I’ve said, you’ve decided I’m a toxic brocialist and not a genderqueer foreigner who just happens to believe in not supporting candiates who have spoken at length against equal marriage.

Callister is very interesting because, like the best episodes of Black Mirror, it invites you to empathize with the villain. You get why he’s so fucked up, but it’s never an excuse. Just a reason. I think that’s fundamental to good satire. There has to be a reason, otherwise there wouldn’t actually be any social…

Fake news was originally a liberal slogan used to talk about chechen and georgian kids who wrote fake news stories and promoted them on facebook for beer money. It’s a bipartisan phrase. And as a socialist who doesn’t like either party, I find it fun to use it to needle people.

Moderates are fake news. If you’re engaged enough with politics to brand yourself a moderate, you’re engaged enough with politics to have an ideology. And moderate isn’t an ideology. It’s a means of hiding from ideology and pretending that you’re just sensible.

Nah, Daou, Abramson and Doyle are seriously true believers. They honestly believe that neoliberalism will deliver us from racism and sexism if all the poor folks and gay folks and nonwhite folks shut up.

Remember when Obama had to take the man who called him Clean and Articulate as his VP to appease the party? That is definitely a healthy and not evil group of people.

It’s almost as if they’re just the purest distillation of a profoundly toxic system that’s persisted for longer than either of us have been alive...

Peter Daou, Seth Abramson, Joy Ann Reid, Sady Doyle, etc. There were a lot of prominent media libs and their followers who were enthused about her.