i’ll defend both your right to disagree (while finding the dehumanizing generalizations pretty vile; your rhetoric echoes fascist comms) and your ability to express your ideas. i’ll also defend other’s rights to the same expressions.

full disregard of the First Amendment isn’t the answer.

“if only they didn’t hear it from Fox, they’d never actually think it” reverse causal chain and justification for pretty much any censorship. the problem isn’t fox - the problem is that there is an audience for it. the fix isn’t trying to prevent ideas, it’s coming to the table with better ones.

i mean most of the power the supreme court has is granted by Marbury and not the text of the Constitution.

it is more evidence the textualism and originalism are “pure applesauce” and just camouflage for the majority’s political preference

or and hear me out, they are shamed for seeking (or maintaining) relationships. they haven’t been taught even that it’s okay, let alone what mutual/reciprocal rlationships look like

to the “misandry” point - maybe, though it smacks of claiming that discrimination cannot be experienced by anyone in the dominant group (patently false).

lumping it with male loneliness is rhetorical sleight of hand. Male loneliness is real and deeply embedded in the American male experience.

effing love the low-five after that second dunk. got his vibe/celebration and dapped up the defender for the next one. no jawing and posturing just and-one get back to it.

once again, a lack of any imagination or ability to see that a vote is not the same as being the in-group has struck - a consistent and prominent feature of trumpist dummies.

“har har immigrants bad har har” has become “oh shit not THIS one”.

maybe the critical feminist reading that she was only unrecognized bc of her gender set some folks off?

book 6 might be the best in the series! but agree that more like books 7-11 are pretty slow and heavy on rehashing old stuff, people vomiting (so much retching), clothes descriptions and internal preoccupation.

don’t get me started - once posited that maybe Egwene was ta’veren in facebook WoT group and the pure textualist crowd HOWLED. “impossible! it’s not what jordan intended” as though the only POSSIBLE reading of any art is through the author’s explicit intent. Le Morte de Author never happened

i frequently think that a simple lack of imagination is the single simplest explanation of how our politics have so gone off the rails. “Where but for the grace of god go I” is now “meh couldn’t possibly apply to me”

me hoarding every potion, artifact, special skill point in a game that i MIGHT need for that extra difficult boss and then giving up bc game is too hard without using any of them, afraid i might never find some again.

vintage… sauv blanc? can this adventure be with someone who knows wine and/or drinks old ass scotch instead?

The Stand!