Everybody forgets this half of Dunning Kruger.

At least he wore a suit

People need to be more understanding of Trump supporters. It’s like they say, you can’t understand a man until you’ve walked a mile with a monster third arm growing out of your back. liberals will never understand the struggle.

I consider his transformation into a double-Christian to be a confession that all the accusations are true. The biggest pieces of dogshit always face consequence mumbling prayers and missives.

Even though a purple State, Georgia’s literal political map is designed to keep State power from the citizens of Atlanta. Rural voters and reactionary politics like ‘tough on crime’, have been dominant there since the failure of Reconstruction.

Yankee politics is wild to me. Where I live, all the politicians are competing to copy Trump in style, but emulating his open and consequence-free corruption is a bold move, Cotton.

did someone say synthesis?

For 2022, TX is indeed the leader in abuse/neglect deaths, but as an absolute number (176), not by population.

No2 is CA so they’re statistically just as dangerous, maybe a little more than TX, but what shocked me was GA! Georgia is in competition with TX and CA despite having a quarter the population. At the same time they’re blowing past states like NY and FL. So the real question is WTF is going on in the Peach State?

Protectionism and isolationism have a robust tradition in American left politics. But even so, Unions have their own interests and American history is full of examples where Unions have opposed progressive policy. They are one of the biggest obstacles to universal healthcare for example.

Some people just need to learn to keep their sex lives at home

JD Vance

The thrust of the article is good. However the Chamberlain/Munich “appeasement” is a bad reading of history.

First, Chamberlain had a mandate to prevent another war. 1914-18 was fresh in his constituent’s minds. Second, he had fresh intel that if a Czechoslovakian resistance existed, Britain was not in touch with it. Thirdly, Chamberlain had zero leverage because Britain was powerless to prevent German tanks from rolling East. The idea that Chamberlain didn’t do enough implies there was something else he could have done. Something Churchill would have done! But what was it that they could do?

Czechoslovakia was not “given away” by Chamberlain any more than Poland was “given away” by Churchill. What Chamberlain achieved was to make Britain 5 years behind when war broke out instead of 10 years behind.

It’s worse than that. Human rights are the number one justification for state violence and aggression. Not only are “property rights” the justification for police violence. The protection of human rights in general have excused nearly all invasion and conquest since the Berger revolutions deposed the “rights of Kings”. Hitler was protecting German citizens in Czechoslovakia. Putin was shielding Russian speakers in Ukraine. And the only thing George Bush cared about was Iraqi freedom.

I think empathy is misunderstood. Especially this notion that having empathy is a proxy for being a good person.

Consider the sadist. You cannot enjoy someone’s suffering if you can’t recognize it. Being manipulative would also be difficult without a grasp of someone’s inner life. A confidence artist must be an empath. A “cold read” psychic must be uniquely empathetic.

In 1921 Hitler gave a speech where he promised to put Jewish people into camps to see “how they like it”. (he was upset about WWI German POWs and blamed Jewish people for their long internment). So Hitler did recognize Jewish people as human and capable of suffering; that was the point.

Reproductive rights, the right to healthcare, prison reform, within a system that accommodates if not encourages parents in different situations to work and live with children is the best way to support young fathers and boys.

We just need something to call this besides feminism.

Basically to be anti-work would be to wish to remain asleep and unaware.

The right only offers three choices, take the red-pill and be racist, take the black-pill and hate women, or take the NyQuil and sleep like the dead.

Ima keep this in my back pocket for when chuds ask: “why do we need black history”?

Stupid people destroy society? That’s not Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that’s Charles Murray. “Stupid people ruin society” is the “problem” to which Eugenics is the solution.

The purpose of humane executions is to relieve pain and discomfort to capital punishment supporters. It’s not a worthy goal.

If you oppose capital punishment, then you should prefer the most horrific and cruel methods because that at least forces the public to face the cruelty done in their name.

If Presidents are allowed to declassify documents with their mind, why cant they pardon with autopen?