josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world

9 days ago

dude brings more shame to those of us with “boer” in our names than the average white south african

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news

Don Moynihan
Jul 25
Can We Still Govern?

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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Freddie deBoer
Jul 25

Because, of course, those don't refer to the same things, you don't think they refer to the same things, in fact you don't think there's any particular connection to be made there; you just think there's an opportunity for cheap points and easy digital reward.

For the record, Trumpism became ascendant in part because American liberalism made itself such an incredibly vulnerable target, and part of the reason it was such a vulnerable target was because people like you protected it from any good faith internal criticism for a decade, and now here we are. They were ample opportunities to come up with ways to reform American liberalism that would have made it more defensible and less subject to the most vitriolic critiques of the right, but you are among the individual people who was the most relentlessly hyperactive in declaring absolutely any of that internal criticism to be somehow off limits or in bad faith, and so in a very direct way you are a major part of the problem. It's telling that you seem to think that fundamentally the reason why there's been this massive conservative lurch is because liberals did not do enough to adequately police progressive discourse from any such criticism; as is typical of people in your position you seem to think that they're simply is no such thing as an organic conservative impulse within our country. But there is and was, which is why the woke moment was such a horrific strategic mistake. I suspect you know that.

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Belatheboya @targhair.bsky.social

9 days ago

Wow. That guy sure likes to hear his own opinion. What a blowhard!

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