Don’t think we’re at the point yet, but the way things are going I honestly think we might end up seeing private sector employees with plausible jawboning-based 1A claims, feel like I’m losing my mind with all this

Pretty sure Bob Corker got it too, and that was at least pre-2018? I remember Alex Jones running with “Little Marco” but I can’t place it on the timeline. God I hate how much cursed information is lodged in my brain forever

**with apologies to Harvey Silverglate

*dramatic irony. also my opinions are my own and should not be taken as the views of my employer or anyone else

...show people that's wrong. I’m sympathetic to the idea that the danger of “mainstreaming” the views of rightwing extremists justifies deplatforming them, and I don’t think it should be dismissed outright, but I think it’s ultimately a lazy and cowardly way to avoid putting in the work.

4. Someone still needs to be willing to stand up and say that those views are unacceptable. You can't have one without the other. This isn’t “defeat the nazis with the power of debate!”, it’s “make clear which views have popular support.” When they claim that the silent majority is behind them...

...and had never heard the “stone the gays in accordance with God’s perfect law” side seems like a pretty good argument for letting the neo-nazis have their rally. Maybe I can figure out for myself when there’s a nazi in the room, but I need other people to see it, too.**

1. Charlie Kirk made the world a worse place and I see nothing in his life to celebrate.
2. Murdering him also made the world a worse place, and I likewise see nothing in it to celebrate.
3. That post going around about the person who only knew about his normie evangelical conservative views...