Children centuries from now will learn about Sleepy Joe, a mythical semi-Luciferian figure of senescence, corruption and decay, ice cream dripping down his frail trembling jowls. Watch out, they'll say, or Crooked Joe will come along and chop off your genitals with his autopen

It's a mistake to be so focused on winning the day's news cycle and beating Netanyahu and his allies that we become unprincipled. The comments are not being misinterpreted and the condemnations are not smears. We should be the first and the strongest in saying this.

One of the factors there surely is the pro-Palestinian left's inability to consistently identify and condemn antisemitic framings coming from its own ranks. Framing ethnic massacres of Jews as an understandable and inevitable response to Israeli crimes is one such framing.

There's a weird degree of support for this from people on the left who you'd think would know better. Anything to regulate big tech kinda sentiment

The Lacanians (Zizek especially) argue that the ontological core of fascism is the effort to impose a global definition of what a woman is (and thereby eliminate the unresolvable ambiguity and incoherence that characterises sexual relations)

This whole revivified Paglian tableau is so fucking stupid and exhausting and repetitive like 'transgression' as an end in-itself is the ideology of 12-year-olds throwing firecrackers at pedestrians you are literally grown adults stfu

Extraordinary

"Omg you are fucking nuts and I know exactly how you got there" is like the sweetest form of online crank bullshit

What I like about it is that it is simultaneously both fully deranged and entirely within my ability to fully reconstruct on the basis of known Marxist theory

No like I'm seriously like 95% sure this is the guy who has this weird ultraultraleft argument that the germ theory of disease is fake and un-Marxist and is basically just fascist propaganda

It's utterly disgusting.

There's something about this type that the audacity to place a vulnerability in full view is unbearable and must be attacked. They go after trans people because they cannot bear that we would express something fragile and ask for it to be understood and not be punished for it. And likewise this.

Isn't this the guy who rejects the germ theory of disease?

Oh 100%. A gossamer veil of self-deception.