Better to just read this:

You’re advocating for a heckler’s veto. The reason s/he didn’t bother with “substantive reasons” is because it’s too obvious to most people to bother. Everyone who has thought for more than a few minutes about this issue has already independently considered and dismissed the argument you are making as naive.

Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Marco Rubio is not primarily known for being a malfunctioning robot.

I think he’s repeating the mantra because it is his delusion and it’s being challenged. He’s never been a good person. He’s a basic Nice Guy writ supernaturally large.

I don’t know if I can accept David’s actions, not when they haven’t been properly set up narratively and justified psychologically, both on our end and his.

He had to do layoffs because his company is underperforming. When that got attention, he tried to blame it on the people he fired to make the company look better. In doing so, he made it that much harder for them to get new jobs in an already-difficult industry.

why was the lincoln memorial made of gold?

I don’t remember what grandma used when we’d visit, but Rapa was always the one my mom brought back home. The idea that there are worse versions is hilarious and terrifying.

My Mom grew up in Wynnewood/Lower Merion, so I’ve been eating scrapple my whole life. There was always a brick of it in the fridge/freezer for those holidays when we’d actually eat breakfast.

She also missed a Memorial Day wreathing

Sounds legit. They have their interns just bookmark all the best cuck porn sites so they never have to search for themselves.

Lover how he started off by calling him Jerry. Power move to match the power suit.

The fact that green jacket lady survived tells me that the goose didn’t. Fuck Canada geese.

Who came up with Woodergate? It feels like Barry, but you’ve got the first post.

If this means they’re going to have a shop where you can buy specific skins/paint jobs, then this is great. But I’m worried they’re just going to lean harder into selling progression boosts. And increase/time gate grind to make them more attractive.

It’s just so perfect, as a Caps fan, that we finally get there at exactly the moment I want to root for the other guys.

I agree. That’s the larger sense I meant. But Haberman is talking about it in the abstract. I’m just saying she’s wrong in both the sense you’re talking about, and in the abstract sense that she prefers to engage.

Yesterday, Trump accused the New York Times of inventing a source because they quoted a “senior administration official” on a conference call that included other outlets

In a broader sense, you’re right. But I actually agree with Haberman that intent is a crucial element of lying. And that we can’t afford to ignore that. I just think that her assessment of his intent is shallow and wrong.

This is what I can’t stand about the way Haberman has been trying to parse this distinction. It’s meaningless because she’s ignoring important context. It’s not actually the case that he thinks whatever he says is real. It’s that he is completely indifferent to, and uncurious about, whether what he says is real. But…