It really is amazing how few ‘new’ ideas humans actually have- they just keep ‘discovering’ the same shitty racist things over and over again…

What kinds of purity tests exactly? Can you clarify? Just curious not being snarky.

Has this guy read Dan McQuillan?

The women remaining in the military will be relieved.

Could Klein BE any smarmier or condescending? He’s an incurable know-it-all.

Thank you so much for this. It helped clarify my thinking a lot. Shame is necessary to social cohesion; its parameters are a collective creation. It’s willful blindness to see it as ‘outside’ of a culture somehow and always just ‘bad.’

While RFK is roid raging in the background, the woman (whoever she is) is looking on with the bemused look of a kindergarten teacher trying to encourage her worst student…

Don’t hold your breathe.

So true. Kirk’s style was never civil, it functioned under that premise but ‘change my mind’ was a taunt, structurally designed to proselytize and demean- and his audiences were always younger and far more naive. He was a professional bully pure and simple.