Rational Left
Center-left academic type. Generally pissed about the state of the world but I know none of our endless crises are actually new because I'm a historian.
Joined Oct 2021
Useful overview of the complicated charges and verdicts in the Oath Keepers case. The jury took its duty seriously, weighing each charge separately. Not getting full convictions in a complex case is routine - but every defendant was convicted of serious crimes, and the "novel" "risky" seditious conspiracy charge stuck for the 2 top plotters.
A major reason Trump won't denounce antisemitism: he shares it, and regularly exploits it.
As Rs twist and dodge to avoid confronting Trump's dinner with Nazis, here is the handily defeated Trump-backed candidate for AZ Secretary of State refusing to accept the results... and going on a screaming rant about Jewish conspirators controlling the world.
Tarnopolsky is right. Musk is straight-up trading in antisemitic conspiracy theories here.
There's definitely a problem when political satire just presents a literal statement of the truth.
My take on Light Mode:
I like "light mode" visually.
Probably a bigger battery drain on mobile devices. But I do like it.
Rational Left
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The thrust of 99.9% of the wailing against "cancel culture" is this: Why can' I be an asshole without suffering consequences? That's it.
Heh. Brazil's top elections court not only rejected Bolsonaro's Trump-like lies about the election results, it imposed a $4 million+ fine on him and his party for "bad faith litigation" attacking the democratic process.
Man, when even frequent nutjob Erick Erickson gets that the R "strategy" is idiotic, they're really nosediving.
Rational Left
Center-left academic type. Generally pissed about the state of the world but I know none of our endless crises are actually new because I'm a historian.
Joined Oct 2021