the neighborhood devil has been funding, promoting and protecting exactly this type of player for *decades*, though, regardless of the degree of repression or the state of the opposition

are you under the impression that intersectionality was invented by white people

No. Racism and capitalism are *deeply* intertwined, and the idea that you can fundamentally combat racism without also combating capitalism is utterly hollow- and why liberalism has totally failed to stem the rise of racist fascism. This is literally what 'intersectionality' means

somebody gave that junior youth pastor WAY too much white monster

Yeah if anything, after the sustained, years-long multibillion dollar hate campaign, those numbers are actually kinda surprisingly static, considering the 'pushback' from the ostensibly liberal establishment has ranged from 'tepid dithering' to 'full-throated endorsement of bigotry'

"democratic socialist" wasn't coopted, really, it was just Michael Harrington trying to assuage his terror of being associated with the soviets via word games lol

"social welfare state" is to the right of neoliberalism, what in the world? Neoliberalism developed as a rightwing reaction _against_ the postwar welfare states ushered in (mostly) by SD parties. Perhaps you're thinking of christian democracy? (Which would still be wrong, imo, but a lil less so lol)

do you think babies are out here spontaneously reciting the 14 words

and as we all know, bad values drop fully formed, out of coconut trees

manuel ugarte's reign of terror continues

Eh I wonder how much this is just down to the whole Tucker/Fuentes/Heritage flap- like Shapiro has suddenly started a tour of normie outlets like CNN last few weeks in a way I at least don't remember him doing much before. maybe he and MTG are rats fleeing the ship, but also could just be a purge

I have been driving the Franklin is a Fraud bus since Vandy and I *still* think it's a reasonable hire, like presumably locking down 8ish wins is the goal, and in 5 years nobody gonna care if 3 of them were umass

afaik most of the available "detectors" are themselves just LLMs, so you're not going to find a lot of comprehensible logic to how they decide what to flag, it's just black boxes all the way down

this conversation remains boring af. Like 85% of seats are non-competitive, incumbency reelection is over 90%, and the average member is a millionaire. We live in an authoritarian oligarchy and yall wanna argue about whether the legate of thrace reflects the indolent nature of the territory lol