you will never understand politics if you cannot accept that *some people want bad things*. not because they've been tricked, not because Capital has manipulated them, because they *have bad values*

Like yeah the FG rugby dads will show up in force but there’sore more of a quiet awkward groan from other lefties most of the time rather than really calling them out.

Letting these gobshites get away with this rubbish has no benefit and just undermines all the good of Irish progressive politics.

If you can figure out Israel justifying annexing the West Bank, mulching Gaza and slaughtering <100k Palestinians because of Oct 7 is indefensible evil horse shite, but say Russia had *real* reasons to start a land conquest war killing as many Ukrainians you’re either malicious or thick as manure.

are you so childish you don't understand that's a strategy to get weirdos who can't win outside of R primaries in the general election (see: Winsome Earle-Sears, Mark Robinson), or are you pretending to be that shallow to excuse terrorizing a random trans woman. Either way is gross, grow up

No, it's not a tough case to make. Harris wouldn't have eliminated USAID and 400,000 children dead from starvation and disease would still be alive.

Woke Raytheon is much better than unwoke Raytheon because one shows a company that feels an obligation towards society (even if cynical) in a way the other does not. Signaled virtue is still better than vice of any type.

NO.

guy lied to both his donors and voters about what he actually intended to do and probably handed the election to bush in the process and has spent the last quarter century being an absolutely impenetrable shithead about it, providing a permission structure for lolnothingmatters low-info dickheads