Nobody is seriously asking Dems to be a pure as snow left wing party. But what they are being asked is to run for office like you’re not embarrassed of the stuff the Democrats claim they stand for. It’s not a big ask.

The "we're just tech bros who build stuff, we're not responsible for our creation" line from Silicon Valley doesn't work anymore. You can't simultaneously "build software to change the world" and not take responsibility when it does, in fact, change the world.

Jesus, what an asshole.

My super hot take is we should probably care a little less about if pols have genuine feelings about this stuff that aligns if they are doing when we want

we, in the United States, through Trump’s mass deportation scheme, have engaged in abductions and torture for the past year, none of it in secret, much of it attested to in legal documents. there is nothing to expose, only to face.

These fucking geniuses. That is hilarious.

Candidates who DON’T promise to aggressively detrumpify, with Nuremberg characteristics, have a very good chance of me knocking doors to ensure they are defeated.

"A lonely impulse of delight"

There is a Russian Imperial 'deep state' but not in the sleeper agents sense - simply the sense that, blame it on geography or culture or collective memory, Russia has a tendency towards territorial imperialism just as the US can't help but swing wildly between isolationist and crusader modes

Every time Owen and his ilk write something about eastern Europe and especially Russia, it's time to wheel out this oldie

The Peripheral, William Gibson, 2014.

I don’t believe the Russians’ deranged, myth-driven, ambitions are limited to Eastern Europe.

The common enemy of mankind.