Dude may well not buy directly from Interstate.

He will be a millionaire soon once he sets up the Go Fund Me and is balling his eyes out in < 2 weeks.

Nothing gets by you!

In a sign of "I'm not sure what to make of this..."

A group of 55 year old, Staten Island deplorable women I went to high school with are spending the weekend at a country music festival at Hunter Mt (just north of NYC).

Although the various crowd shots they are posting demonstrate that the crowd seems overwhelmingly white, I didn't spy any Confederate images or even one MAGA hat.

I'm not sure if this is a positive development of some kind, or if Northeast deplorables just don't want to look like rednecks.

It's NE deplorables not looking like rednecks. They are all suburban Real Housewives wannabes with cucks as husbands.

This is so powerful: Message to my history teacher, whom I once asked why no one stopped concentration camps: NEVER MIND

yep

Yup. I don't think enough time is spent on things like this.

It has the makings of an incredibly juicy stream of articles but it's easier to report on tweets than substance.

Cruz defends Trump policy of family separation

"There's actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail," Cruz told the Dallas public radio station KERA on Monday, according to a report in The Dallas Morning News.

"So when you see reporters, when you see Democrats saying don't separate kids from their parents, what they're really saying is don't arrest illegal aliens," Cruz said.

...

"You are either for separating children from their parents or you are against it. I am against it," O'Rourke posted on Facebook last month.

How do Dems answer that? For me it's easy. Don't arrest immigrants period. Don't arrest immigrants with children double period. But what's the standard Dem answer? Family jail?

beto's response seemed pretty solid

Someone is going to ask a follow up to that at some point.

It's super easy to point out that he's in favor of separating parents from their kids ALL THE TIME when it comes to every day crimes. There's just a disagreement over which crimes are bad enough to merit the separation.

Cool story bro

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When I was a senior in college (around 2010), I wrote my thesis on internet grassroots activism on the right. Specifically the point made by my paper was that right wing publications, particularly those in the grassroots on sites like RedState, use extremely dehumanizing language when referring to minorities or immigrants, as well as other rhetorical techniques meant to influence opinion.

For a few years, from like 2012-2015, I felt kind of embarrassed of the paper. Felt like it was overly dramatic, something that an enthusiastic college kid thinks before becoming more tempered with age.

Feels EXTREMELY valid now.

In Trump's America, the DOJ files on behalf of a lawsuit at Michigan where students are crying for a safe space against protests of conservative speakers

Wahhhhhhh wahhhhhhh

I worry about this a lot. I feel like we ought to also be careful of it:

To be clear: no, I'm not implying an equivalency. The problem is far worse on the right. But I think the tendency to dehumanize others should be resisted pretty much universally. Which, again to be clear, does not imply making any political concessions. These just jumped out at me the last couple days.

I've been worrying about this a lot myself lately.

Think of the link you posted in the POG thread. How can you describe a person who supports something like that other than with an awful, dehumanizing adjective?

How do I, personally, get past feeling that somebody who supports child internment camps is no better than scum on the bottom of a boat? How do I look into the eyes of a person who says they don't care how many children die in school shootings as long as they get to keep their guns and see anything other than a monster?

How do I stop hating them? And the real question is, should I, if they have absolutely no qualms about hating me?

I feel like a bad person, and I don't know how to avoid it. Fury is my main go to when it comes to somebody like I described above.

I understand this might seem overly nitty, or too philosophical, but for me the objection isn't with calling them awful, it's with calling them less than human, because humanity implies certain rights and certain obligations carried by others that do not apply to non-humans. That's why dehumanization is bad, and there's research (particularly on the subject of sanctioned massacres like My Lai) that delves into the relationship between dehumanization and organized violence.

So it's not the same as merely having a negative opinion of someone. I have no problem describing people who support separating immigrant families or erecting internment camps for children as deplorable, morally repugnant, awful, or evil. I think support for that policy is all of those things. I worry about the subtle longer term consequences of calling them inhuman or soulless.

Obviously it's also easily possible to overstate the importance of what language people use in this forum, and I very nearly decided not to even post about it because it seems difficult to express reservations without implying that those two examples are more significant than they actually are, but in the end I decided I felt worse about not saying something than about saying something :P

One of my favorite/funniest bits on Chapo is when Matt Christman goes off on the MAGA rally people as oinking swine clopping their hooves together. **** em all is what I say. They're in no danger of being dehumanized by the state, which is the actual threat of what's happening with undocumented people. Is there a danger of significant retaliation against these pool store owners and used carsalesmen who worship Donald Trump? No, ldo, so there's no comparison.

You don't say....

I saw red man.

And I feel like **** afterwards. Mets is right wing, and I disagree with a lot of the **** he thinks is right, but he isn't evil.

I generally don't believe in blaming a trigger for doing something, but man, some buttons buried deep can be pressed really really hard, and its hard to get out of the red zone.

He nailed like three things at once. Whataboutism, using an article that doesn't say what he pretended to say it said to get an incorrect point across, and banality towards actual evil.

Ugh. Just all around. At him, at my reaction, at myself. Ugh.

It’s alright to hate intolerance and bigotry.