Ranked choice voting would short circuit some of this nonsense.

Oh no

Organised gaslighting honestly

Literally. History will be the final judge.

This kind of shtick was being satirised in The Thick of It in the mid 2000s

‘Give them enough rope to hang themselves’ is a phrase I first came to understand through Louis Theroux. I find something deeply disturbing and authoritarian in the implicit notion that there are certain topics where audiences cannot be trusted to simply observe and assess on their own terms.

Such a loss. There really aren’t enough superlatives to describe his musicianship.

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Well said

A negligent lack of context regarding the rally’s political context, when it represents a vein of our politics dangerous enough to warrant some editorialising rather than this framing as an innocuous ‘family’ event of honest folks ‘concerned with the cost of living’. Let’s not be overly charitable.