In other SC news, eager to repeat the Ginsburg Maneuver (some combo of arrogance/idiocy/selfishness leading you to believe your brilliant mind just has to stay in office when you might otherwise be replaced by an administration favorable to your legal philosophy), 82-year-old Breyer chose not to retire today, which…

Not that it’s not great that this bloodthirsty pig is finally dead, but it would be amazing if just once a single one of these fucks faced justice while they were still alive. Didn’t happen with him, not gonna happen with Kissinger or anyone like them — just decades and decades of perpetrating horrors and…

To be fair, supporting one white supremacist flag over another is actually relatively low on the list of Republican malfeasances.

Given the current state of affairs, deriding the United States, or outright hating it, is about as American as being an uncritical, flag-waving jingo.

Simple explanation: her dad was a piece of shit, her mom is a piece of shit, and she’s a piece of shit.

That’s fine, and I’m not going to, or even trying to, counter your thoughts -- which I appreciate hearing and learning from.

That’s fine, and I’m not going to, or even trying to, counter your thoughts — which I appreciate hearing and learning from. A communist who privileges knowledge from books to the exclusion of knowledge from the people isn’t much of a communist, anyway.

Oh my support for Black and Indigenous liberation isn’t contingent on whether a given group shares my particular ideological grounding (which is also ML), but it’s absurd to see liberals continually try and adopt the radical aesthetics of the Panthers while doing everything possible to distance themselves from their…

Pretty much every modern Black and Indigenous liberation/anti-colonial movement all over the world was either started by, allied with, or constituted in large part of “tankies,” so no it’s not disappointing so much as illustrative of the bullshit nature of US propaganda regarding that designation. I’d wager 90%+ of…

Hah yeah you’re probably right (about the latter statement -- about the former you’re definitely right).

It got them murdered by white supremacists/police/the FBI (but I repeat myself) so not especially, but it’s a key part of their ideology that shouldn’t be overlooked for the comfort of squishy liberals whose appreciation for defanged radical posturing is only surpassed by their unease over genuinely radical politics.

It’s probably because a lot of members of the Black Panther were Marxists, which is different from communism.

I mean yeah do your thing! Just saying that based on the track record of US intelligence services, even when their conclusions are supported by those vaunted troves of evidence, they have a much better than average chance of still being absolute bullshit — bullshit that just so happens to serve the dominant structures…

Oh I agree with you totally! All we can do is consider evidence, consider the source and their history, consider the bias involved, and make the best determination possible. For me, as a person who’s been alive long enough to see this cycle play out repeatedly, I don’t give a shit what the US intelligence community…

Isn’t adjusting your beliefs based on the findings of the US intelligence community, a deeply ideological apparatus with a track record alternately disingenuous, incorrect, and deadly, also an anti-intellectual position?

What’s orientalist is the way the term “wet market” is used in US discourse (and by liberal US media outlets and commentators!) to insinuate some evil foreign exoticism rather than like...Wegmans.

...yes? The article is about extremely famous/influential liberal Jon Stewart giving credence to a baseless theory rife with anti-scientific, orientalist fearmongering. That theory is dumb as shit. It’s not dumb as shit because Trump and various US reactionary chuds support it, it’s dumb as shit because there’s…

(They didn’t read the article)

Sheesh, I bet you don’t think the CIA has the right to overthrow popularly-supported sovereign governments either? Doesn’t sound very freedom-loving of you.

Genuinely confused by this take — in which universe is the mainstream US media not an ever-flowing font of (almost always un/poorly-sourced) anti-China propaganda?