wildcat09

One thing I think is pretty clear from yesterday’s lively discussion is that Ana definitely doesn’t need therapy.

Joining the Johnny sack “conservatives don’t need therapy” party I see.

I think the most charitable take of Ana’s view on this is that he sees them all as whores who deserve that risk, either because they had sex knowing the risk of pregnancy or for those who were raped, because Eve ate the forbidden fruit and now all women are condemned by her. Of course he’ll pretend that he doesn’t believe anything like that, he’s a special snowflake who holds very artisanal archconservative religious beliefs that don’t align with those of other archconservative religious believers on anything that might be the immediate topic of discussion. He’s like a woke inquisitor, basically.

If ten billionaires who hold most of the Bitcoin in the world can’t get even richer by defrauding regular people are you even free?

How can you possibly have a cold when it's not cold outside?! /elon

I think there's certainly some problems with lawyers letting their duties to their clients overwhelm their other duties, but I don't really think that's the source of the problem. I think the source of the problem is basically the same liberal capitulation in legal academia that we've seen in politics. And I don't mean "liberal" in the sense of left-of-center politically, I mean it in the sense of liberalism. Right wing careerist assholes and dipshits lavishly funded by billionaires began laundering clearly bullshit legal theories that were fundamentally opposed to a liberal order into legal academia several decades ago now, and liberal academia (and increasingly as time went on, the courts) treated those theories as, and those who proffered them in, good faith rather than for what they were: a virus.

On a related note, I will never stop laughing at how desperate libertarians are to suck up to wealthy private individuals and how eager they are to transfer all of the power they're terrified of a representative government having to fewer than five trust fund kids.

Calling yourself a "tech founder" should be a capital offense.

Watching this squad turn defense into offense might be my favorite thing to watch in basketball since 1995. Sengun doing dad driveway shit is a close second.

I feel like some people need a reminder that BHM views 1/6 and Hillary criticizing Trump for soliciting and accepting Russian election interference as the same. I really don't know why anyone would actually engage with that.

Elon stans (pretending not to be Elon stans): no no what he means is that it’s not a perfect program and is too expensive! Elon: what fucking stealth?! I can still see it! And it doesn’t even have grok installed!

What a coincidence that every hospital that actually looks at the law and tries to figure out how it applies to them comes to a different conclusion than you. They should all hire you as a consultant, obviously, to tell them how they can comply with the law while providing necessary care.

And the key is that Democrats validated the frame of the GOP attack. What was Allred's response? It was "no I don't want boys in girls bathrooms, but..." Generating that response was half of the point, if not the main point, of the ads in the first place. The voters he was trying to reach didn't believe anything before the "but" and it de-motivated the Dem base. Democrats are so fucking conditioned to playing defense and letting Republicans frame every argument that they don't know any other way to do politics (this is why Republicans to this day are so incredibly furious about Obama actually using Romney's "47% are takers" line against him). Allred should have counterattacked with ads that Ted Cruz wanted to look up little girls' dresses and was trying to divide Texans to distract from his corruption. Would it have made him win? In this election, probably not, but he would've done a lot fucking better and a similar strategy from Harris and other Dems may have been enough to get her over the top.

That's basically what they've been doing for the past several decades. What does this even mean? For fuck's sake people, can we talk about what Dems actually do vs what a bunch of people who are literally financially invested in pretending they've been doing something else (and need to stop it) pretend they do?

It sure seems like a poster posting some 8chan school-shooter "REEEEEEEEEEE" shit should be grounds for a ban.