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Susan G's avatar

Keith Olbermann - his insanity know no bounds. Deport an American citizen, legally or illegally. Cancel all contracts with Elon's companies. Do it now!!!! So, the astronauts trapped at the space station will not return to earth. Starlink will not be available to Ukraine, victims of Helene and Milton. And so on...

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Ministry of Truth's avatar

The stark hypocrisy of it, he's against deporting criminals but one of the most productive legal immigrants and citizens he wants to get rid of?

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

Brad, the link to the Guardian op-ed is very revealing. At the end of Ms. Tolokonnikova’s deluded ravings is one of the Guardian’s usual pathetic appeals for support. It begins “This is what we’re up against” and continues: “Bad actors spreading disinformation online to fuel intolerance ….” Irony is obviously lost on the Guardian.

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Susan G's avatar

Her op-ed is incomprehensible. I am intolerant.

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TWC's avatar

Agreed

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DD's avatar

Damn, did it again, checked out the Twitter picture, info on one Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who equates the upcoming MSG Trump rally with an "infamous" 1930's Nazi rally.....apparently at a "Super Gay" March in NY with his trans partner and 2 unfortunate children.........

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Anthony S.'s avatar

1. “It required literal, physical bravery to do this.” — The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, regarding Liz Cheney's endorsement of Kamala Harris.

----> Cheney endorsing Harris is nearly the opposite of bravery. It is a regime-friendly act that satisfies the required optics to appeal to technocrats and elites who feel they are chosen to tell the rank and file of the citizenry what they should believe and how they should act. And it keeps Cheney in good standing with them.

2. “There ought to be a price to pay when you don’t tell the truth.” — CNN’s Chris Wallace.

----> There is a price to pay. People stop trusting you. And they start making fun of you.

3. “Gender identity is an unfalsifiable idea, a socio-political construct, a quasi-religious belief. At bottom, it is defined by little more than a person’s subjective feelings, or (more accurately) their claim to feel those feelings." -- JK Rowling

----> And it is that unfalsifiability that confers high moral and social status on the righteous holders of that idea.

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Ministry of Truth's avatar

Keeping the war machine going is the Cheneys number one priority, they don't care about anything other than that. It baffles me that having a war criminal (their words not too long ago) and his daughter on your side is something they see as a feather in their cap. They're showing their supporters that this isn't the Republican party of Bush and Cheney whom they despised.

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Marc DB's avatar

J.K.Rowling just defined the entire Liberal ethos with that quote. They believe it, so it must be real. So, reality has no place in the universe of Liberals.

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TWC's avatar

Leftists, NOT liberal.

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Annie Gottlieb's avatar

Opt out?? These are my favorite posts of yours. The best hangings are self-inflicted.

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Annie Gottlieb's avatar

(Not meaning to trigger any suicide trauma.)

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Frank Lee's avatar

"“Let’s be clear. Allowing Trump to hold an event at MSG is equivalent to the infamous Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939.” — NY Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who says the decision has “the potential to incite widespread violence”"

Let's be clear. Allowing the media and tech to keep promulgating the lies and propaganda that Trump and his followers are fascist Nazis has already incited widespread violence and assassination attempts of Trump.

There fixed it.

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Frank Lee's avatar

“One advantage of being a leftist is that, being on the ‘moral’ side, you never question your own motives.”

I see the same historical problem with the old neocon Republicans that everyone except themselves now dislikes. There is so much danger in seeding administrative power to people clutching an opinion of righteous moral positions and ideas that are impenetrable with real facts, real truths and real math.

I expect the current leftist fake moralism to also fall out of popular favor. The big question is will it happen soon enough to prevent them from completely destroying the country and world.

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Ministry of Truth's avatar

It's this "the end justifies the means" attitude that has been at the root of most atrocities committed in the past. If their moral framework hinges on having good intentions and "they started it" they have no principles and no morals.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

"being on the ‘moral’ side, you never question your own motives.”

LOLOL

said every theocrat, fundamentalist, dictator, fascist, psychopath and crazy person ever.

In the words of Don Quixote: "Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross."

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DMC's avatar

I could not tell if that was a criticism of the left or if he was serious.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

oops you're right

either way, i enjoy shining some light onto the dark shadow of moralism

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DMC's avatar

Like "the "Shimmer floor wax" in the original SNL ad? Its a floor was AND a dessert topping!!

Dating myself

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

just hope that came w Dan Aykroyd doing voiceover

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DMC's avatar

with gilda Radner I beleive. She was underrated. Very funny

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Susan G's avatar

I loved her!! Gone far too soon.

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Ministry of Truth's avatar

“Donald Trump has had a very sinister philosophy, wanting to be a dictator, absolutely dividing people up based on who they are, based on factors about them that have to do with their race or gender, etc. And when he uses language like this, I don’t think that it’s a freudian slip, I think that the danger of a Donald Trump is that he would absolutely try to exterminate an entire group of people because he thinks that their genes are somehow different than his and faulty.”

Jimmy Dore said it on his show multiple times, "every accusation is a confession". What they're doing is classic projection.

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