It’s sort of the foundational basis for American democracy. I find “Liberals” who are open to ceding the field on this perplexing. If you want a right wing autocracy you can just vote for Republicans.
Birthright citizenship is like one of the only unequivocally modern elements of the American constitutional order and should be protected at, literally, all costs.
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
It’s sort of the foundational basis for American democracy. I find “Liberals” who are open to ceding the field on this perplexing. If you want a right wing autocracy you can just vote for Republicans.
potentially unpopular opinion: we should continue to make fun of the pantone color of the year, but seeing it as a dogwhistle is only going to encourage the real dogwhistlers find new ways to trigger you
Pantone describes its color of the year, “Cloud Dancer,” as “a discrete white hue offering a promise of clarity.” In today’s polarized sociopolitical climate, this selection offers disengagement at best and channels rage-bait at worst.
potentially unpopular opinion: we should continue to make fun of the pantone color of the year, but seeing it as a dogwhistle is only going to encourage the real dogwhistlers find new ways to trigger you
see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.
"Prostitutes, their thighs open, sitting on the edge of a platform, Japanese workers in their shirt-sleeves (it is a popular spectacle), permitted to shove their noses up to their eyeballs within the woman's vagina in order to see, to see better - but what?" - Seduction
December 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
"Prostitutes, their thighs open, sitting on the edge of a platform, Japanese workers in their shirt-sleeves (it is a popular spectacle), permitted to shove their noses up to their eyeballs within the woman's vagina in order to see, to see better - but what?" - Seduction
I actually disagree here because a lot of my job is suing scumbag eviction attorneys (who are also, legally speaking, debt collectors) and the landlords who hire them. below-market private landlords in particular are fucking demonic.
your average debt collector routinely breaks the law to steal from poor people, generally with some level of knowledge and callous disregard. there are more altruistic prison guards.
December 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I actually disagree here because a lot of my job is suing scumbag eviction attorneys (who are also, legally speaking, debt collectors) and the landlords who hire them. below-market private landlords in particular are fucking demonic.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
so I have a friend who had Amy Coney Barrett as a prof and she's apparently quite smart and a good but challenging professor. compare to, say, Brett Kavanaugh, a stone-cold idiot with an out-of-control spending problem which he solved by becoming one of the world's premier bribe opportunities
I was least convinced on her bc she was primarily a teacher, but that turns out to be a good thing
December 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
so I have a friend who had Amy Coney Barrett as a prof and she's apparently quite smart and a good but challenging professor. compare to, say, Brett Kavanaugh, a stone-cold idiot with an out-of-control spending problem which he solved by becoming one of the world's premier bribe opportunities
The country will be in a much better place once the pmc and the revolutionary guard of woke wine moms are in full control of the Democratic Party and the federal government, and are permitted to govern in some of the very ways conservatives fear monger about.
the pmc is achieving self-consciousness as a world-historical class
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The country will be in a much better place once the pmc and the revolutionary guard of woke wine moms are in full control of the Democratic Party and the federal government, and are permitted to govern in some of the very ways conservatives fear monger about.
feels like some kind of indicator / cognitive datapoint that we're supposed to worship as geniuses wealthy people whose actual behavior is more malignant shambolic and addled than our culture's most grotesquely offensive stereotypes of the destitute deranged and the desperate
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
feels like some kind of indicator / cognitive datapoint that we're supposed to worship as geniuses wealthy people whose actual behavior is more malignant shambolic and addled than our culture's most grotesquely offensive stereotypes of the destitute deranged and the desperate
BARTIROMO: How is it possible that the Democrats have been able to rally around 'affordability' and make people think that's what they're focused on and not what Republicans are focused on?
HASSETT: It's just what happens sometimes when one political party has the media echoing what they're saying
December 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
sometimes right wing projection is just so over the top and on the nose that you can’t help but wonder if they’re being ironic and self aware