(it is a bit funny that having a conservative and traditional self-presentation totally scrambles people’s understanding of your views. ask me how i know about this.)

whig measures, tory men

It also benefits leftish pols that scan as centrist to the public. Andy Beshear has been admirably principled as a centre-left gov in a deep red state, but the GOP consistently failed to convince the public that the aw-shucks white guy with Lego hair was a Communist revolutionary.

They have half-time bullshit (usually kids teams playing) and they play music before a corner kick and that's it. They should still stop playing the music but Rowdy Audi is almost entirely fans.

Hardly the central point but it’s kinda strange to see an actual large right-wing party end up at ‘yeah okay smoking a little weed to relax is whatever’

Andrew Scheer just has the charisma of a wet paper bag, and given the state of Canadian party financing, a cheap porn studio is probably working with more resources.

this feels like a guy who gets asked to stop contributing to his local community theather because he's bad at acting and also sniffing the leggings in the costume closet

new GOP leadership vibes

well i think they wanted to be regina george, except they lacked the looks and charisma.

were probably still bullies tho.

I think they’re mostly people who *wanted* to be high school bullies

The inability to parse the difference between malice and annoyingness is probably the great deficit of our times.

See also: basically any discourse about "wokeness" and/or campus activism

people don't know how to handle a mostly virtuous person who is also massively annoying

As a Wayback Machine fan, I thank the lord for this. Too much of the old internet has been lost, and it’s only gotten worse with all these shitty forced login designs. Crime against humanity.

I just also want to point out…current protestors have it harder than the Selma marchers is an absolutely WILD take.

the reason this shit is laughable is because it's either unnecessary or not nearly enough. if that really is the threat model, you shouldn't have a social media account either without taking a bunch of irritating and tedious precautions that most of us almost certainly aren't

i mean, there's just no way that would be the case — amongst everything else, these funding levels are completely unsustainable. they're not even really sustainable now.

Being a freak about Stancil remains more or less a 100 percent marker of useless politics