Then blame whatever editor chose the headline. There’s nothing in the text of the article (which is what the authors actually contribute) to suggest the authors feel her killing was justified.

Sure but this is the view of anyone who utilizes political violence. The line during the summer 2020 protests was “This is justified because our violence serves the good.” Ditto for the Brian Thompson and Charlie Kirk murders. Whether you find that compelling or not, it’s not unique to Trumpism.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Not to be dramatic but I do think encountering this as a teen fundamentally shifted my notion of what “good art“ could be

obvious issue is that people don’t consider it hivemind when the consensus view aligns with their own

But it’s not just that cops would be taking on more risk, it’s also that it could take cops significantly longer to apprehend them, during which time they’d be able to continue killing people

What do you think should be done in the case of (for example) an active shooter? My feeling is that de-escalation is not always possible, and the use of potentially lethal force allows a shooter to be incapacitated much faster than if police were constrained to only non-lethal means

My body’s a zombie for you!

What the hell are you guys talking about? They’re not that similar

What the fuck are you talking about. Because Friedman taught there 80 years ago, present students shouldn’t be able to study comparative literature?

I’m sorry things are so bad right now. Your music has enriched my life and many others’

“neuro fuzzy” replacing neurospicy on the euphemism treadmill

To be clear I like Mamdani, but it’s not hard to imagine the left’s response if it came out that Elon had applied to college as “African American.”

I don’t think it serves us to pretend it’s totally unremarkable for Mamdani to have self-identified as such

I really like Mandani, but the presentation of some of these statistics is misleading. “Brighton Beach Went for Trump by 44 points. Last week, we won it by 16” suggests a huge swing and winnable Trump voters, but that’s not necessarily the case, as the vast majority of primary voters voted Kamala

Wasn’t familiar with this but it seems like she just posted lyrics that contained the n-word and then apologized for it? Or was there an incident of her actually calling someone a slur