Yeah they love mocking liberals for having more empathy than them, like they like bringing up this study they claim shows liberals care more about strangers than their families

I think she's still friends with Taylor Swift and all, that probably helps.

'And I saw, as it were, a beige horse, and the name of the rider that sat upon him was Incompetence.'

Grim. What next: "gay couples who refer to themselves as their child's parents"?

Reminds me of one betting service's ads where they said "You bet on tough decisions everyday, why not gamble?" No! That's not the same thing!

My best guess is just that he was a young man during 9/11 and thus he's always considered Islamophobia at least somewhat reasonable since so did a lot of people then, even before this phase he was known for effusively praising Modi too

I feel like the West getting cold feet about helping Syrians get rid of Assad in 2011, causing millions of Syrian refugees, is basically responsible for the resulting the far-right, xenophobic backlash in the US and Europe, and emboldening Putin to boot.

GC feminists in particular--and for the OG ones of those "gender" means what radfems mean by it, they sought out to be critical of gender policing among other things--have done the extraordinary thing of reinventing the gender system from first principles by pounding so much on the importance of sex

Prog slop: Just a little more deliverism bro, please bro

Mod slop: let’s find a bisexual college freshman woman at a liberal arts college and beat her to death in public to prove we are serious about law and order

Lib slop: if you criticize democratic politicians I will kill you and then myself

And last I checked that's still against their official style guide! So it must be certain editors making the decisions.

the closest analogy to this for most Americans I think is 'how did you feel when it was decided Pluto wasn't a planet any more'

I'd definitely thought of Oliver Cromwell and Ayatollah Khomeini as perhaps people worth comparing and contrasting

I think a lot of that is that many leftists hate the Democratic Party and so thus assume the party itself is the main obstacle to winning over red states.