This might be worse with context. He was comparing rape and murder to attacking pedophiles.

Laws don’t bind the in-group

Religion is open to interpretation just like art. If someone interprets art and feels empowered to be a shitty person then they or the art is wrong. I don’t have to “believe” anything particular about the art to arrive at that conclusion, the same is true for religion.

They’ve helpfully characterized “the five principal forces of antiscience “ into alliterative groups: (1) plutocrats and their political action committees, (2) petrostates and their politicians and polluters, (3) fake and venal professionals—physicians and professors, (4) propagandists, especially those with podcasts, and (5) the press. The general tactic is that (1) and (2) hire (3) to generate deceitful and inflammatory talking points, which are then disseminated by all-too-willing members of (4) and (5).

They’re so incompetent but also incredibly lucky.

Because the conservative justices have signaled that precedence doesn’t matter if they don’t want it to. Maybe other judges need to follow suit to make a point…

About as much as I love having 9 people appointed for life that can overrule that voting system in case it does actually let the majority win.

They only anticipated white land lords voting. But then again, that’s exactly who voted for this.

Why expect consistency from the courts starting now or in the future?

What I like about her campaign is the fundraising spends the money on things that matter to people: mutual aide. Many of us saw recording breaking fundraising followed by a loss and asked, what if we spent that money on things we wouldn’t regret? And Kat answered.

He will condone the bad in order to prevent the worse and in so doing no longer discern that the very thing that he seems to avoid as worse might well be better. This is where the basic material of tragedy is to be found.

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “After Ten Years”

They ask more of people’s ignorance than they do of their virtue.

See also: setup a public wifi share box to help your neighbors scale back on subscriptions

If the means of political power is cynicism then the ends will be fascism.

If the fediverse was a threat then it would also be a target.

Complains that Americans are too lazy to milk cows and doesn’t realize they are part of that group. Doubt they will learn anything.

Spez is too much of a useful tool for them to throw away.

There are many people who don’t know his rhetoric and are posting their support because they are going off what their media is saying

When the only redeeming quality of your speech is that it is free, then your speech is also worthless. Using the pepe avatar is just the discount sticker making it easier to spot.

Those damn voters never know what’s good for them so that’s why we will give the GOP so much rope to hang themselves that it reaches the floor!