Yeah, there’s zero percent chance he doesn’t know exactly why he’s been banned. If he really thought it was unfair he’d be screaming from the hills and filing lawsuits. To use his analogy:

“I have no idea why Twitch banned me.”

If you are going to dismiss a message like this because the guy who originally quoted it was at one time a Nazi supporter who changed their mind (and isn’t this about changing people’s minds?), then you are discouraging people to say anything, period.

It’s about how the Nazis came to power, and of course, the point is to recognize persecution and not to mince about when it’s happening, regardless to whom. What did you think it was saying?

Children were not gassed to death because they were communists...

Because that’s how the Nazis got into power started amassing power: by going after communists and socialists. They literally staged false flag operations to justify arresting socialists and thereby amass more power.

I mean, its already been said, but the issue is more the shitty optics of this than the legal minutia. It may turn out that they legally can do this, but that’s an almost completely independent question from whether or not they should.

It’s like Netflix pulling the w/ Bob and David blackface episode. It’s nominally the…

“Hamilton” is not history, and sanitized media-friendly versions of history are how we got to where we are now in the United States.

Really? When I reread it five years back (first read and mindlessly enjoyed as a teen in the 70s) I read a typically Heinlein “America = Humanity!” semi-fascist novel that was Silver Age SF imitating Vietnam and the Cold War.

Goddamnit, a Roth byline just makes me miss Deadspin all the more

Starship Troopers is an amazing movie, David Roth is an incredible writer and Great Hills Partners are among the biggest group of fart-huffing, self-satisfied morons in a fetid sea of private equity vultures.

The best new podcasts I’ve heard this year are Blowback, a thorough look at the US/Iraq wars, and 5-4 which goes hard on the Supreme Court justices and cold. Also, Our Vantage Point is a great retro wrestling podcast.

Blowback has been the best by far this year also Unfinished is pretty good so far. 

“I love my Trans friend I just think they are abominations that shouldn’t exist” - what Rowling’s is really saying

So she’s equated trans women with opportunistic molesters and now transitioning with conversion therapy, and yet she feels nothing but “admiration and solidarity” for her trans friends. Sure. I also like the subtle reference to her trans friend as a “true feminist ally” because of course only cis women are…

That claim has been debunked, though. The author of the Swedish study that TERFs like to claim “proves” their claims actually gave an interview about it:

“They were assured that the fact they make $90,000/year while their male counterpart pulls in six figures would be the political crisis of our time, and they are deeply furious that many of us have different priorities.”

After having had several long conversations with the latter group in recent weeks it’s clear they’re just somewhat smarter and more manipulative than the former. They want to claim to argue from a base of respectability but still portray transwomen as rapists and transmen as victims of misogyny.

Bernie Sanders is the only candidate I trusted. The rest are panderers.  I don’t believe anything they say.  There’s no point in voting for any of those liars.

I am a young American graduate student in the state of Iowa. I am buried under a mountain of student debt and have lost all hope of ever paying it back. Neither of the major American political parties care to assist me.