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King George the Negative Third

I'm 99% sure this is why white evangelicals hated Pokémon and why my (Catholic) dad's colleagues at Regent University in the 2000s told my parents that it was unsuitable for children

The ice cream thing was funny because it's one of the most common answers you would get if you asked a bunch of five-year-olds what they'd do if they were president.

“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

Yeah, get ready for a lot of fake piety from people who somehow never heard a single public statement he ever said.

He did it. The president made car juice exponsive

*goose chasing meme* What business??

Matt Walsh is mostly right here, but the people he's calling out for lying about "Iran's 47-year war against us" have also been lying for years that illegal immigration was an "invasion."

Given free rein, the bullshit machine will eventually spread a lie you actually object to.

Apparently, Ottomans frequently called the city "Ḳosṭanṭīnīye" until post-WWI, Westerners called it "Constantinople" until about the same time.

Can someone explain what happened in the 90s?

Many of these people were threatening us last September that the gloves would come off, that they would avenge Charlie by uniting against and utterly crushing the degenerate liberals.

In less than a month, they were mired in factional fights over conspiracy theories.

MAGA last September: "Oh, you fucked up big time. You killed the calm, rational, diplomatic debater, the middle ground, the off-ramp. Get ready for what comes next!"

What came next:

I installed a browser extension called One-Click Block that puts a "block" button on every tweet. It dramatically speeds up the process

I gave it up for Lent so now I'm hanging around here more

There might not be any amount of progressive messaging/education/propaganda that will make a majority of the public view the possibility of an adult with a penis in the women's locker room as "none of my business."

But what if they oppose biological males in women's sports and bathrooms not because of right-wing propaganda, but because those issues cross the same "this affects me or my near relations" line that employment and housing nondiscrimination protections didn't cross?

That rule might also apply to trans issues, but likely not to the extent progressives want.

So, on one hand, Americans don't feel that trans people having housing and jobs affects them in any negative way, so they broadly support protecting trans people from employment and housing discrimination.

That impression was reinforced by and might even have originated in entertainment. But in my theory, public attitudes toward gays changed because of the gradual removal of those impressions, which were the only reasons most Americans ever thought that gays' gayness affected them.

. . . because there was a widespread impression that gay people did in some way affect their lives, such as by being (supposedly) sexually aggressive toward straight adults and even predatory toward children and young people.

I mean that on most issues, Americans' default position is "none of my business" unless given a reason why it does affect them—why it is, in fact, their business. Within this framing, Americans were able to be anti-gay marriage—and even anti-gay—for so long . . .

*Why* those public attitudes changed is kinda the real question. Maybe pressure on the entertainment industry to portray gay people with more dignity instead of as punchlines? But I think the public's shift had a lot to do with what I call Americans' "natural libertarianism."

Instead, Dems were still nominally against gay marriage until the early 2010s, while public attitudes changed for other reasons. Dems only came out for gay marriage when the coast was clear.

And the end result of it all was a progressive victory on the marriage issue.

In the marriage fight, gay activists didn't successfully pressure the Dem party into adopting an unpopular position, and the Dem party didn't make a pro-gay case to voters to change their minds.

The history of the gay marriage issue doesn't provide much encouragement for progressives' current posture on trans issues like sports and bathrooms (i.e., that retreating from those issues is essentially the same as abandoning trans people to death).

This was never going to be anything other than another venue for him to stand behind a microphone and blather at people

The company that manufactured replica 1913 Patton sabers discontinued them a few years ago, and it's now easier to find originals than replicas

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Does anyone know if there was any significant ICE deployment to Springfield, OH, in December? The one lady is wearing a santa hat.

If we can admit DC as many states, then that's one of the things we need to change in a new constitution.

Is the sausage andouille?