Everything posted by wildcat09
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The Democratic Party
That's not Hanania's podcast. People left of the far-right have to use their fucking brains about this shit. There's some nuance for who someone should engage with, depending on their platform, the topics at hand, and your ability to speak to them and their audience. If you are Pete Buttigieg or Bernie Sanders, you can go on Joe Rogan. But if you're fucking Dr. Sanjay Gupta trying to promote vaccines, not prepared for a hostile debate and thinking you're going to get an honest interview, stay the fuck home. But there's one hard-and-fast-rule and that's this: Don't debate nazis. Don't do public appearances with nazis. In fact, just don't talk to nazis. Richard Hanania is a nazi, no matter that he pretends otherwise now. He's never actually disavowed anything he used to say or believe, he just thinks it's more beneficial for him personally and his cause if the nazi shit seems more intelligent and sophisticated. That is his project. When you speak with him to talk politics and sell your political book, you're legitimating him as an acceptable public intellectual figure. You're legitimating his ideas as acceptable public ideas. You're aiding his project.
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The Last of Us coming to HBO
Are you...are you saying that fans of TLOU video games were not all aware that Ellie is gay?
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Andor
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The Last of Us coming to HBO
This might be the perfect Helo post. Thank you for this.
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The Democratic Party
Yeah, I haven't read it but my understanding from some reviews is "ok they've got a pamphlet with two pretty good ideas buoyed by too much focus on California-specific shit that they really padded out to try to make it into a real book." Derek Thompson also guested on Richard Hanania's podcast and can go gargle balls.
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The Democratic Party
Ezra Klein has the affect of an earnest intellectual but doesn’t actually do nearly as good of a job thinking stuff through as he thinks he does. He’s also fucking infinitely gullible when it comes to anything the “good” republicans (those who pretend like they care about more than hurting immigrants and forcing women back into the kitchens) say.
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The Last of Us coming to HBO
Also uh, the game’s fan base shouldn’t be surprised about Ellie being gay?
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The Supremes
Right. Nobody serious and honest believes there’s any real debate here. Sure, someone who is full of shit can come up with a “water isn’t actually wet” type of legal argument, but we shouldn’t treat it as anything other than the bullshit it is.
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Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Only clowns believe in the germ theory of disease.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
Cam Whitmore looks legitimately mad that he has to be there.
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The Democratic Party
Gretch is pretty clearly taking a dive.
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The Democratic Party
Ok, how about you stop speaking abstractly in complaints about "identity politics" and specify what you mean. What "identity politics" issues did Harris foreground in her campaign? Or is the problem as you see it that her identity was the political problem?
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The Democratic Party
Hah, I was about to engage with your dumbassery by linking to the last time I pointed out that this is fucking stupid, when I realized that the last time I did was in response to you: You guys think the marginal voter is who you imagine yourselves to be, when the marginal voter is actually these kids:
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
He’s contributing literally nothing right now.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
We should probably be running out one guard lineups the rest of this series. Bari should be getting all of Jalen’s minutes.
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The Democratic Party
The thing about Carville is he's never been a particularly effective political operator or even like, a guy with any unique insight at all. He's got the cajun accent so a lot of people who grew up going to expensive private schools in the northeast assume he's got some southern authenticity to him, and he was a strategist with Clinton's campaign in 92 so people assume he helped Clinton win. But Carville doesn't know shit about what the "average" American wants. Look at where he fucking lives. That's not a guy who has talked to an ordinary American (at least one who isn't literally his servant) in decades. And the real reason Clinton won is that the right's base fractured. Carville has coasted on that ever since, despite Clinton winning that election essentially by default.
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Trump Arresting Judges
Was that tjhooker?
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The Democratic Party
Pritzker has no patience for centrist cowards: We have no choice but to stan the Great Khan.
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Trump Arresting Judges
Man, if you’re not familiar with sheeeit’s whole deal at this point, I’m not sure I can help you. He’s pretty obviously lying to you. It’s “subtle” compared I guess to how someone like Trump lies, but it’s not that subtle.
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Trump Arresting Judges
The next person to quote sheeeit gets negged.
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Trump Arresting Judges
Libertarians love this shit.
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Tariff wars, they have began
Calm down you little baby. You said something very stupid and I’m lightly ribbing you for it. Hell, I’ll stop if you admit you were wrong, but I think we both know you won’t do that.
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Trump Arresting Judges
Not everyone. Some will have been hanged outside gas stations.
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Tariff wars, they have began
Ana: "Any day now he's going to announce the greatest trade deal ever known to mankind!"
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The Democratic Party
Left NIMBYs are some of the most annoying dipshits on the planet.