It’s also a matter of the Republican Party being taken over by true believers. The party used to just use the Evangelicals and other far-right wackjobs for their votes, but now they’ve allowed those people into positions of power and policy-making. The inmates are running the asylum, and the rest of the party is…

All right wingers do. They are constantly surprised that their positions don’t win, because in their mental calculations they only count people who support their own position as valid. They do the thing where they think, “every real American I know agrees with me, so we can’t lose,” forgetting that people who disagree…

You sound like the kind of guy who really, really wants to use the n word, but not get punched in the face for it.

“Beyond” never means “not”. So “beyond reasonable” never means “not reasonable”, and can only mean “very reasonable”. It doesn’t matter what adjective you attach it to, “beyond” is used for emphasis, not negation. If English isn’t someone’s first language, I can understand the confusion; otherwise, I’m beyond embarrass…

He’s a mixed Black/Jewish Canadian kid, raised mostly by his white mother in Canada, so you’re certainly right. He probably doesn’t identify as Black (in the American sense), because he’s not. He was raised in a different country and culture with a different identity.

I wonder if anything happened between 1865 and 2023 that might have had an effect on those voting patterns. Hmm.

Honest question: what do you think the purpose of prison is supposed to be?

This is exactly right. I’m not going to outright say Tuberville’s not a racist, but as a Republican he pretty much has to be. He’s probably not a white nationalist however, and almost certainly doesn’t know what that means or what people mean when they accuse someone of being that. The simplest explanation for all of…

If he doesn’t have the charisma now, he’s never going to. The reality is that this campaign is exposing him for the pathetic weasel he really is.

It wasn’t quickly. It just seems like it because their political leadership was successful in suppressing their worst elements from coming to prominence for so long. They’ve been courting the crazies (and depending on them utterly) for decades now, and it was inevitable that sooner or later the inmates would be…

I’m watching what they do. I called you stupid because you are objectively stupid. Have fun supporting braindead assholes who increase animal suffering with their idiotic stunts. The rest of us will support animal welfare groups that aren’t literally the worst people humanity has to offer.

Okay, I’ll make this really simple, since you’re apparently too stupid to understand the conversation we’re having.

YES.

In the recent movie that debuted the character in the MCU, that’s where the name came from. The character has been around in comics since 1939 (literally the oldest published character in Marvel comics) and it didn’t mean that until then.

I have no opinion about their euthanasia programs. My problem is 100% to do with how aggressively stupid and obnoxious literally everything they do is. PETA is the fucking worst, and if you support them, so are you. If you truly want to help animals, tell PETA to go fuck themselves and spend your time and money on…

I know two different people that lived through their own version of this story - one was my best friend, straight cis male, who fell for and eventually found himself in a brief dalliance with a cis woman who identified as a lesbian. That didn’t work out, and she went on to fight for and have the first legal same-sex…

This is exactly it - they’ve retreated so deeply into their ideology that they can’t bear to look at reality for fear that the whole thing would come crashing down. That’s kind of inevitable when your worldview is based on biblical literalism but you live in an era where humans have traveled to space.

Sometimes I wonder if animal welfare is actually their goal, since they are so toxic that they definitely do more harm than good.

I know that the Republican party stopped paying lip service to objective reality and actual facts many years ago, but this is just astounding for how blatantly fantastical their claims can get.

Game companies depend on preorders to pay for development. If a game isn’t preordered to fund the final development stages, the suits believe that the game is predetermined to fail and cut off support, and the game basically gets shoveled out full of bugs and very little support/future patches. Devs get laid off, and…