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wildcat09

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  1. Blackman is only bailing because a lot of other rats have already fled and it would be extremely professionally embarrassing (moreso than he's used to) to stay behind.
  2. I think the attempted coverup is pretty clear evidence that he thinks they will care that he raped teenagers.
  3. The whole thread is just this:
  4. This seems high. I mean, just look how many Republican men we know are pedophiles.
  5. Of course they were, because that's a routine part of the job of journalism. Bari didn't want to give them an opportunity to respond, she wanted to give them a veto.
  6. This was Bozo yesterday: That sounds exactly like what a blue-haired progressive might say to some chud Rogan fan. "Your feelings are valid and I want to sit here with you in them." I think we can all imagine the response that would generate from the chud and Bozo usually thinks that type of talk is very silly and counterproductive. I know he just read that and thought "I don't mean you say literally those words!" We get that, which is why we've all understood what he's been advocating this entire time to be that we need to indulge a chud's belief that he's been unfairly discriminated against, even when that's obviously a false belief.
  7. Eh, close enough.
  8. No, he wants to blame affluent white progressives for attempting to help minority groups. That way it's totally not racist. Bozo thinks he had a potential political career fucked over by someone overly concerned about racial identity politics and has been bitching about it here ever since. He doesn't even get the history right. The Democrats began abandoning majoritarian middle class economic interests long before the party began championing progressive social issues. The abandonment of majoritarian middle class economics goes back at least to Carter's administration and sped up with Clinton's first election. And while that abandonment aligns to some extent with the economic interests of big Democratic donors, it wasn't driven by their financial interests. It was driven by the fact that they got the shit kicked out of them by Reagan running on a small government platform. Democrats looked at their pro-labor political messages and this result and the conclusion they drew was that America was deeply conservative: From ~1980 to 2012, the party tried to split the baby on "narrow social issues" pretty much every election. They were for civil rights but also tough on crime. They wanted abortion to be safe, legal, and rare. They didn't think gay people should be able to get married, but thought they should be able to enter into civil unions. Etc. They very much thought American politics was about turning a dial that had a clear "left" and "right" on it, and thought that by landing right in the center of that dial they could win. The party didn't really begin embracing a politics focused on embracing social issues until around 2012, when Obama came out in support of gay marriage, which was in response to a growing shift in public sentiment in support of gay marriage. They then became a bigger deal during Trump's first term in response to his white supremacy and particularly in 2020 after George Floyd, and the party finally actually embraced abortion as a political issue during Biden's administration after the repeal of Roe. But again, these were all in response to shifts in public sentiment; the poll nerds just looked at that and said "hey the center of the dial is actually left of where it used to be now, we have to move to the new center." Where the party actually failed is that they completely forgot that political figures can change public opinion and thought the answer to all of politics was in simply chasing public opinion to triangulate perfectly in the center on as many issues as you could. But Bozo doesn't get to play the victim in that story.
  9. There’s something so funny about the apotheosis of American conservatism being the ultimate participation trophy guy.
  10. Maybe sit this one out.
  11. I think we're done here.
  12. I doubt this was intended as a joke, but it's a fucking great one, man.
  13. It's good to know his division won't miss him when Ukraine drone strikes him.
  14. Oh good, GRU is quoting ChatGPT now.
  15. Parliament:
  16. Sure you do, you hit the nail on the head that it's personal for him. He was acting out like a baby and wanted people to indulge his tantrum.
  17. I tried this, but my dog is an asshole to other dogs. Now I'm all out of ideas!
  18. We learned that the Trump administration is desperate to hide something and is very bad at cover ups.
  19. Right. A big part of growing up is realizing the world doesn't revolve around you and that you can do everything right and still get the short end of the stick for arbitrary or no reasons at all. We can and should work to provide a system that helps alleviate the worst symptoms of that and to minimize the unfairness, but there's no way to actually eliminate unfairness and create a perfectly meritocratic system. There will always be some number of people who have bad luck. It doesn't help anyone to indulge their anger and encourage them to attribute their bad luck to false causes. These guys don't need JD Vance's bullshit, they need Shoresy:
  20. The real thing they're spending the money on isn't meeting women, it's meeting women who can't say no.
  21. I'm imagining that scene in As Good As It Gets where the lady asks him how he writes women so well, except instead of being an asshole Roth is just very uncomfortable with the idea that he understands them at all.
  22. This reads like an Andrew Tate post.
  23. Man, you very clearly need to talk to a therapist. ETA: seriously man, what the fuck is wrong with you? That’s the kind of response you should expect to get punched in the face for if you said that shit to a grown man in person.
  24. I've been a bit simplistic in some of my responses because I didn't have the time to give this 5,000+ words when shit needed doin over the weekend. What I and Dahobbs and others have been pretty clear about though, I think, is that we are willing to believe that some young white men have been discriminated against by silly employment policies, but that it isn't a real widespread issue. There's reams of data backing up the fact that it isn't really a widespread issue. It's certainly not as severe an issue as Republicans pretend it is. That means that many, and I believe most, young white men who believe they've been discriminated against are wrong in that belief. Now I can empathize with why they wrongly think that. I grew up in a conservative family surrounded by conservative families. I remember the whispered racial grievances of the 90s and 2000s. We were all too good and too respectable to be racist; that was for white trash. But my mom and tons of friends' parents would talk about how it wasn't fair that underperforming black kids were taking our spots in college and that reverse racism was the only real racism left in America. It's easy to start believing that shit and if you start believing it might be true you'll start spotting things that you think reinforce it as you progress through life, because the world is a big place with a lot of people in it and many of those people make mistakes and some of those people are just shitty people who do bad things. I was a shitty student from a middle class home at a very diverse high school full of high-achieving minority students. I absolutely could've gone down that path. I like to think I'm smart enough that I never would've fallen for it, but if I had been born ten years later and Trump was mainstreaming unapologetic racism again at the time I was becoming an adult and politically aware, I could see an alternate timeline where a version of 19-year-old me bought into the racial grievances. I think about that alternate me and I wonder: would it help turn him away from that path to have a liberal tell him that those peddling the racism were right about him being screwed over to help some dumber black kid or whatever? Fucking of course not. "Even the liberal [centrist pundit] agrees with us that the left has gone too far" is some of the most effective conservative rhetoric. The idea that reinforcing that rhetoric would result in liberal political gains is insane. Of the white boys and young men who've bought into these false racial grievances, some are undoubtedly open to persuasion. Those who are a little smarter than most of the others, those who have some liberal friends, those who stumble onto a lefty podcast that starts to make sense to them, etc. But persuading all those young white men requires convincing them that their racial grievances are mistaken. And for the very select few who might've been unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and actually did get shafted for being white, we can say "shit man, that sucks and shouldn't have happened, but you can't let that experience poison you." Using me as an example again, my dad died from medical malpractice when I was a teenager. That experience has undoubtedly impacted how I feel about our healthcare system. If that had happened now to alternate me, with frauds peddling woo healthcare bullshit from the White House, I could see him buying into it. But I didn't buy into it, even though I was pretty familiar with all of that woo bullshit 20 years ago, because I wasn't surrounded by people saying "well you know RFK Jr. is right that there are a lot of problems with the healthcare system!" It was still the type of thing only kooks bought into and that helped me look at their bullshit critically. If we were talking about healthcare rather than discrimination, Bozo's proposal to reach me would've meant indulging my worst feelings and most wrong beliefs. It would've meant telling me something like "you're right to be angry, they killed your dad for money." But that's not what happened; what happened was that a doctor who was by most accounts a good doctor made a horrible mistake, because he's a person and people make mistakes. I'm very glad Bozo wasn't there to tell me comforting lies when I was at my worst; I'd be a worse person today if he had.
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