Pulpachair
3d ago
The Manson murders were in 1969, and were rather infamously celebrated by portions of the far left at the time.
I think this monstrous impulse has always been there, but Twitter/social media generally tears away the walls that protect people from their neighbors’ sociopathic moments.
Pulpachair
3d ago
He should have added a toll gate.
Pulpachair
3d ago
Kimmel’s Karl Malone sketches were also a sword of Damocles for his career during the awokening, which made sure he stayed on the vanguard of the left.
Pulpachair
4d ago
But if it’s not an actionable defamation, where is the financial pressure on ABC to preempt the case by firing Kimmel? There wasn’t even a threat of an organized advertiser boycott yet. The affiliate revolt and threat from the FCC appear to be the only real pressure.
Pulpachair
4d ago
It’s not actionable, though. Even if a discrete class exists, how would they show measurable reputational harm from the lie?
Pulpachair
4d ago
Colbert’s show has been losing money for years. I suspect Kimmel and other late night shows are as well. This may have just been giving Disney an excuse to do what they wanted to do anyway.
Really, really don’t like that the FCC threatened licenses and then this happens.
Pulpachair
4d ago
I don’t believe this is common among Democrats.
Unless they’re jewish on the wrong side on Palestine.
Pulpachair
5d ago
Not for nothing, but the Salt Lake Tribune is pretty notoriously one-sided in its political slant. Think New York Times or Washington Post, but without all the attempts at balance and editorial oversight. The article lists a bunch of things tying Zinn to republicans and sort of glazes over the things tying him to local Democrats. For example, the 2019 protest where he was arrested was a left-leaning protest over environmental issues. If I had to put money on it, I’d say he’s an opportunistic loon.
Pulpachair
7d ago
Minor nit. “Con” as a shortened form of confidence game or man didn’t appear in the vernacular until the late 1800s. Vox is probably wrong about that reading of the spelling.
Pulpachair
9d ago
Does the analogy still hold if it’s your son who dynamites the house because he is seeking your approval?
Pulpachair
10d ago
Thanks for the correction. Updated.
Shooter is in custody. News conference ongoing. Turned in by his dad.
Edit: Antifa, trans furry and Helldiver 2 messages on the bullet casings. Guessing that this moves toward treating Antifa as a domestic terror org.
Pulpachair
10d ago
Is there a case to be made for canceling in this particular circumstance? Contrast with Brendan Eich who was cancelled for donating to the wrong side of a roughly 50/50 split issue. The cancellation was a flex by the left. The right objected because Eich played by the rules and got cancelled anyway.
Cheering on and excusing political assassinations against peaceful political opponents should not be within the Overton window of a civilization. Enforcing a norm against that seems justifiable, though definitely in danger of being a slippery slope.
Pulpachair
10d ago
Does supplying certain “less bad” drug cartels with arms and intelligence count? I would think so.
Pulpachair
18d ago
Just a lot of recording, playback, and tweaks until you get it right.
Pulpachair
3mo ago
Only Nixon could go to China and only Obama could do kids in cages without the left losing their shit.
Pulpachair
3mo ago
“Plausibly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Biden had a 50 year career in public office and the first time his “stutter” was ever rolled out as an excuse was in the 2020 presidential race to explain away aphasic rambling incoherencies on the campaign trail. Even if he did have a stutter as a child, he did not as an adult.
The Afghanistan withdrawal debacle was in August 2021, barely half a year into his term, and Biden was out of public view during the march on and fall of Kabul for days before making a public appearance. He was showing signs during the 2020 campaign, but this was the moment when I was certain that he was being kept out of public view on his bad days. Trying to say that this only really started in 2023 is stage two of the modified limited hangout, and is a self-serving lie to help protect the political media from the fallout of years of collaborative deception.
Original Sin is a scapegoating effort to deflect blame from the party and media organs that propped up a wheezing husk of a pretty mediocre and sleazy career politico in order for the party to try to hang on to power for a few measly years. That you are buying it tells me that you want to be deceived.
Pulpachair
3mo ago
Billion dollar idea - rent-a-yenta. A service where an overly critical older woman follows around the timid marriageable types and needles them constantly about their relationship status, frequently trying to set them up with their neighbor or cousin’s kid until finally something clicks and they find a suitable match.
Pulpachair
5mo ago
There is also a structural reason for lack of conservative intellectual output. Conservatives like old ideas. There are only so many publishable takes on Aquinas, Hobbes and Kant, or why Shakespeare was pretty dope.
New ideas are the domain of reformers, who are definitionally not conservative. The main issue is that most new ideas are extremely likely to be less practical than old ideas. There are an infinite number of ways to explore why bread is racist, actually.
Pulpachair
6mo ago
Based on the facts, I think it is safe to assume that the borrower didn’t knowingly mislead the creditor here. The plaintiff is the trustee for the bankrupt borrower, meaning the debtor is not directing the action. The trustee’s job is to find every avenue of relief permissible under the law. Given that the borrower is a truck driver in rural Kentucky, living in a trailer home, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that he is probably not a sophisticated borrower who knew the nuances of title registration law when negotiating with the bank.
This is likely an instance of the trustee’s attorney finding a technical argument on behalf of the bankrupt estate with no bad faith involved in the creation of the loan.
Notably, the creditor here does not lose the debt claim, they just move from secured to unsecured creditor status and can recover from the general assets of the bankrupt party along with other unsecured creditors. The borrower doesn’t get a free truck here, and the bank is only left out in the lurch to the extent that the other unsecured creditors share in the assets.
Pulpachair
8mo ago
Biden (and other Democrat presidential) pardons of leftist activists wasn’t the precipitating cause of the J6 pardons. The two primary complaints about the J6 prosecutions were 1) the partisan zeal combined with the DC venue meant that an impartial jury of ones peers was not in the offing, and 2) that J6 was being used as an info Op as part of the “Get Trump at all costs” campaign from 2021-2024, and MAGA grannies were collateral damage.
Pulpachair
8mo ago
PC at the time failed to achieve critical mass for a variety of reasons. I think the largest reason, compared to 2010s version, is that culture was still top-down. Music was what the big record companies approved. News came through the TV or paper. Comedians could mock PC as blue-nosed university primping and get rewarded for it.
The breaking of the top-down cultural monopoly in the 2000s weakened the gatekeepers who (probably not intentionally) kept PC quarantined to the university humanities departments.
Pulpachair
8mo ago
A 179 or 180 is more than a 30% chance of admission. Stanford median LSAT score is 173 and median gpa is 3.8. They love 180s to counteract some of the legacy 165 scores. I’m not sure what the methodology is, but lsd.law/rankings says you’re guaranteed to get into Harvard Law with a 3.5 gpa and 179 LSAT.
Even if you don’t shoot for a top-10 school, you can turn a high LSAT into a full scholarship at a top-25 school. Some of the biglaw firms have HQs outside the Acela corridor, and they tend to recruit from well-regarded regional schools. E.g. some of the big Chicago firms prefer Northwestern or Michigan over Ivy League. Vanderbilt and UGA grads generally don’t have problems finding work in firms based in the southeast. You are also much more likely to make the network connections to conservative judges if you aren’t in Massachusetts or NY.
Pulpachair
8mo ago
Fwiw, there is no conservative lawyer army. At best a division. Political donations by attorneys go 10:1 to Democrats. Law school professorships and biglaw very much reflect this. The 9% of non-left attorneys trend libertarian more than conservative.
The upshot is that if you somehow navigate the scylla/charybdis of top law schools and biglaw with your politics intact, and can land a clerkship with a conservative justice, you can probably turn that into a federal judicial appointment because there just isn’t that much competition.
The entirety of the far left in the US is smaller than the lizardman constant when compared to the entire populace, so it’s hard to say. Honestly, it may have been limited to just some of the extreme radicals and nutters, but it wasn’t nonexistent.
Bernadine Dohrn of the Weatherman Underground (now a law professor with some influence on Barack Obama when he was starting his career) praised the murders. There were groups of supporters at the trial who shaved their heads and drew X on their foreheads as signs of support.
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