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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.
Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
“They all knew.”
Their freedom requires your slavery.
If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.
Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.
Our messy unity will be our strength.
Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.
The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.
If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!
I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.
In after Baud. Damn.
Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.
Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.
To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.
Kimmitt
I am so pissed.
No one — NO ONE — has been saying that Arabs in their culture and religion are unsuitable to democracy. If anyone has, it has been the Right, with its support of laws and practices harassing law-abiding (and misdemeanor-committing) Arab-Americans. The concern with Iraq is completely culture-neutral; it has to do with questions of whether a formerly totalitarian state, which is under heavy influence from fundamentalists and outside influences, has a good chance of maintaining a democratic structure which was imposed from outside on an arbitrary day.
History is littered with failed democratic states that quickly morphed into one-party rule. It is not racist to note the parallels between those states and Iraq.
(This is not meant to be a comprehensive survey of the article’s dubious assumptions. Don’t read anything into anything left out.)