Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

So very ready.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Books are my comfort food!

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

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  1. 1.

    RSA

    It certainly can’t be the inherent plausibility of liberalism that draws smart people to it, since it has little or none. Today it has value as a marker of social status and in-group membership, and most who hold to its presuppositions do so out of rote and habit and unthinking allegiance, because it is expected and much more risky to reject outright.

    Shorter Larison: The only reason smart people are liberals is because they’re stupid.

  2. 2.

    Jay Andrew Allen

    Amazing how I had no idea that I like liberal ideas because my oppressive academia overlords forced me to.

    Personally, I welcome our new oppressive academic liberal overlords.

  4. 4.

    Xanthippas

    It’s interesting to read him decry liberal intellectualism in a post that reeks of faux intellectualism. Though maybe he always writes like that; I wouldn’t know.

  6. 6.

    Dennis-SGMM

    I thought that I was a liberal because I largely approve of liberalism’s views of the role of government in society and its perception of America’s duties toward the world.

    Now I find that I was just being a liberal to be cool. I feel so foolish.

  7. 7.

    Face

    Can we just bomb the fuck out of Iran and get it over with? Liberals smart, Conservatives dumb….bah! Dorks arguing with Rednecks. Yea. Show me a laser-guided nuke with Tehran’s name on it and end this crazy speculation.

  8. 8.

    Pb

    Just the usual right-wing projection. Substitute conservatism in for liberalisism in the above and its all true.

    I was going to go with Bush cultism, but… good enough for who it’s for.

  9. 9.

    Tim F.

    I was going to go with Bush cultism

    We can at least rule that out. Larison may occasionally pen a regrettable post but he definitely is not a Bush cultist.

  10. 10.

    keatssycamore

    There is a reason why the left-liberal Karl Popper identified the root of evil in Plato and Hegel, not exactly champions of rote repetition or plebeian yahooism, and it is because there is actually a presumption against the importance of intelligence and rejection of superiority of any kind in most leftist thinking.

    And here I was thinking that conservatives were the anti-intellectuals!

  11. 11.

    magisterludi

    I love the smell of conservative indignation in the morning. Poor babies may be losing some cachet with their less empty-headed minions.

  12. 12.

    Jimmmmm

    It has never been clear to me that liberals are all that much more interested in “ambiguity and complexity” than the average conservative (those on our side did not come up with the phrase “knee-jerk liberal” out of nowhere), and it is not at all clear that many of the people who call themselves conservatives today are actually politically conservative, which complicates things a bit.

    So, the stereotype used to describe those awful stereotyping liberals isn’t actually a stereotype, but a demonstrable fact? And anything that’s gone wrong because of the actions of conservatives isn’t the conservatives’ fault because the wrong-doers aren’t REALLY conservatives.

    Wow. Two intellectually dishonest points in one tortured run-on sentence. And this guy gets PAID to teach others? Sorry, Tim, he’s a fucktard. A fucktard who scored over 700 on the verbal portion of his SAT, but a fucktard nonetheless.

  13. 13.

    MNPundit

    You know, they used “M/W”… couldn’t the liberals have done better because we’re HYPER-SENSITIVE to “W” after these last 6 years?

  14. 14.

    RSA

    And this guy gets PAID to teach others?

    Probably:

    Daniel Larison [is] a Ph.D. student in Byzantine history at the University of Chicago

    But don’t worry; it’s probably not very much.

  16. 16.

    grumpy realist

    Unless he’s doing all his work in Byzantine Greek working from primary sources, I have absolutely no respect for him.

    Hmmm–maybe that’s what we should ask him to do to prove his bonafides: translate his column into Attic Greek.

  19. 19.

    Shinobi

    Clearly I am not intellectual enough to be a liberal since that post made my brain hurt.

    Personally I think the problem is that no one really knows what the difference between Conservative and Liberal mean anymore. They are so clouded by the stupidity of our current leaders that it is nearly impossible to support either democrats or republicans without ending up standing behind something that from the public’s standpoint is incredibly detrimental.

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