Yeah, this once again comes down to the fact that in the conservative mind, protesters who challenge police brutality challenge the state, while protesters who challenge wearing face masks are the state. The beauty of being white in America, in the Fox News mindset, is that every white then has the privilege to claim l…
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To afford Nadler as much leeway as possible, even if I’m ultimately just giving him enough rope to hang himself, in professional white people world, the hierarchy of sins usually works something like this:
If they don’t literally mean they want to abolish the police they shouldn’t pretend they actually want that and but then try to calm the people with reasonable questions about that by saying “just kidding, it’s code for something else and I’m just saying it in bad faith to open the ‘overton window.’”
Oh look, one of those guys! In one of the saddest statements of my life, I live for dealing with those guys. To whit, you are absolutely correct that words do have meanings, and that is why seeming pedantry actually matters.
This needs to be noted more often, because this is an important contextual clue about police expectations that is all-too frequently ignored. When Eric Garner was murdered by the NYPD, he was originally being cited for selling loose cigarettes without a license to do so or without paying city duties on the cigarettes,…
Sure, there are a few people who, by saying “defund the police”, the actual slogan, they mean “abolish the police”. But most people mean something more akin to “debundle the police”. Certainly that’s what I mean.
He concluded that “the Democrat Party will be held captive by the most radical political mob in modern American history. Their power and electoral success appears to be growing day by day.”
In fairness, I think he’s trying to atone retroactively for that.
Hey now. There’s nothing wrong with posing erotically with a carp . . .
Yeah, that was why you always hit Toys R’ Us on the day after Christmas with your money from grandma. If I recall correctly, I once managed to get Mega Man X, Donkey Kong Country 2, and one other game for about $50. I recall that Earthworm Jim would have pushed by budget up to about $65, which was a bit beyond my…
he’s not “enacting” anything, nor is it his punishment ...
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Yeah there’s . . . all kinds of issues regarding representation that ultimately circle right back to “well, this is supposed to be a power fantasy for guys”. I mean, just to use an even more basic visual cue for an example, how many times have you seen a guy on film come out of a fight with a broken nose? I couldn’t…
The strong and explicit roots back to Tolkien are a big part of what’s hitting a wrong note on this with me.
Trump is likely ignoring per-capita testing totals, a stat that the United States really doesn’t have much to call home about.
Yeah, this argument is . . . well, it’s several things, but if we’re going to be formal and use our Greek and Latin like Matt Schlapp would insist of us (but not himself), then this:
He literally had math working for him, and he still couldn’t make money.
Biden is not great, but Biden will not unleash still more of the Ten Plagues of Egypt on his own country out of his own foolish obstinacy. I’m only half-joking when I say it wouldn’t surprise me if water started turning into blood in the next week.
Well, that’s partly because for real rich people, the answer is always “compound interest”.
It’s weird how often phrases that criticize aspects of American society get turned right around and are used uncritically to uphold those very same aspects of society.