I have been informed it is "Kit" Fisto

I feel like Kitt Fisto

Guys, we're in year 13 of "the Vatican makes a surprisingly progressive move"

At some point it's got to stop being surprising to you lol

Liptak gritting his teeth writing this, using his full willpower not to use slurs

Iron Lung ➡ Mark Fischbach ➡ Smosh: The Movie (2015) ➡ Alex Winter ➡ Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) ➡ Keanu Reeves ➡ Keanu (2016) ➡ Jordan Peele ➡ Get Out (2017) ➡ Allison Williams ➡ M3GAN (2022)

tell me this movietomovie route wasn't inspired

Exactly. What is the difference exactly between a "litmus test" and just taking a position? Oh, if you hold certain positions then certain people won't vote for you? So what? That's democracy. That's not new, it's not "cancel culture", it's the premise of your job.

It reminds me of those tumblr Zuckerberg X Saverin shippers who realized they were being biased by the actors who played them and then transitioned into becoming Eisenberg X Garfield shippers

Guys he might be homophobic AND transphobic, BUT he's also the adopted son of an oil family with direct ties to the NSDAP

It's kind of crazy that one of Gavin Newsom's main gimmicks is that he's homophobic on the internet and if you ever ever point that out you get mobbed by the elderly

"What I lack in experience I make up for in integrity, and what you lack in integrity you could never make up for in experience"

-Zohran Mamdani to Andrew Cuomo

Woman reading off of a phone: High insurance costs have made it impossible to ship through the strait of Hormuz Man rips off first page of calendar to reveal "January 1790 BC"

They are slowly reinventing the Obama doctrine

Perfect policy tbh

The mainstream position is that you are meant to take this perspective very seriously

The "pragmatic" choice for mayor was Andrew Cuomo

I would've used a gatling gun on the Detroit Become Human robots I tell you what

The choice is yours, lib

It's either terrorist (blowing through an intersection without checking your mirrors) or fascist (screaming at the town meeting that they need to put Flock cameras on every corner)

Morpheus holding the red pill and the blue pill but they just say

"Asshole" and "Karen (different kind of asshole)"

Yes, there are good reasons to be concerned about U.S. military engagement in the Middle East. Long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan left a trail of destruction with little tangible reward. But while a dark history of imperialism has led many on the left to be skeptical of any military action by the West, the legacy of Western non-intervention is also worth consulting. In Rwanda, up to a million people died in 100 days in a genocide in 1994; former President Bill Clinton has since said that failing to intervene early was one of his greatest regrets, and estimated that such intervention might have drastically reduced the death toll. The West watched Cambodia’s killing fields claim well over a million lives, murder which only ended when Vietnam invaded. In a similar contortion of the concept of sovereignty, U.S. officials actually condemned the Vietnamese for cross-border aggression, describing it as a violation of international law.

The Rwanda comparison is obviously absurd on its face but Nadav, do you have any more information on WHY the U.S. didn't support the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia? Was it a principled defense of international law or something way more obvious? Any examples from the last 30 years?

From Forward Opinion | “The outpouring of joy by Iranians worldwide tells us this moment is far more complicated than the chants of those protesting the war would have it,” writes Nadav Ziv, who has an Iranian girlfriend. “American activists castigating the strikes Iranians are celebrating are not standing with the Iranian people. They are standing with the regime that brutalizes them.” Read his essay ►

who has an Iranian girlfriend

Singal is a journalist who went to an Ivy League school, which in respectable society you are meant to assume means he's an expert in whatever he says he's an expert in

The only consistencies in his views are a reflexive desire to discipline the left, serving power, and a veneer of technocratic objectivity.

He would've ended up as a LessWrong/FHI guy if his life went slightly differently.

his grift for years has been shuffling from pet policy to pet policy and hitting himself with the men in black neuralyzer every time he becomes a new guy

That's how he went from writing "One Billion Americans" to blogging about the need for a secure border in five years

It's a style of bait now rarely seen. Endangered.

You pit people who think it's tasteless against people who steelman the argument you made so poorly

Apparently this still works ("It's an old code but it checks out" (boomer meme))

There used to be a lot of articles like this:

-terribly written and hamfisted.
-vaguely socially liberal
-bathetic

BUT technically arguable on the merits so people who should know better will come to your defense. "Maybe Resident Evil kind of is about the bomb" they are meant to say

This article is shitty in such a specific 2015 way that it almost makes me nostalgic

I am certainly remembering this

"The Choirs of Angels" from Scivias by Hildegard of Bingen

What are they talking about? The content of the Larry Summers emails could've easily been grounds to fire him regardless of who he was corresponding with.

given the "centre" and "prize cunt" in the original post I'm guessing this person is talking about working the customer service line at Cadbury Eggs or whatever but I'm talking about my country where people are trained to give you the runaround until you give up and literally die