unto the groypers i became as a jew, that i might fulfill groyper hamartiology. unto the social justice warriors i became as a shitlord, unto the liberals as a fascist, etc etc i am made all bad things to all men that by all means i might seem to embody the evils they idolize

The people who enabled Jason Arday’s lies will blame the people who exposed them.

The house being debated is in Deerfield Illinoise. Median income there is around $200k. It’s one of the priciest suburbs in the entire Midwest. It was part of the gag of the show as the neighbors were yuppies

The State of Israel calls on Spain to exercise restraint, protect the rights of refugees, and ensure that the military does not use violence against innocent civilians.

You can literally post "Arrest Mamdani" and get 100K likes.

Implicitly there is some growing acknowledgment that some critics of the mania were right all along, but nobody who was right all along has been made editor or distinguished professor anywhere, while the people who led the madness still enjoy the bully pulpit. Until the "circulation of elites" happens, of course the people who were right all along ought to keep harping on this theme. "Just move on" is what people who were right all along always get told--by people who were wrong but want to keep their old clout regardless of having been wrong. When I was younger, I experienced this as everyone who criticized the Iraq War being kept out of positions of influence long after it was clear that all their warnings had been correct.

"Did you hear? ICE killed another American!" "A citizen?" "Well, no. But he had been here for 35 years." "So he wasn't supposed to be here. Still, that's not a death sentence. What happened?" "ICE shot him!" "An ICE agent just walked up to him and shot him?" "Well, no. He hit an ICE vehicle and started to run down the ICE agent." "So he tried to kill an ICE agent."

Ok, some reflections, taking seriously the Platner defenders... 1. I think post-MeToo all reasonable people have finally agreed that there is a difference between "woman consents to sex with a man she knows with less than 100% enthusiasm" and "stranger violently rapes woman in an alley" and that these things are two ends of a pretty wide spectrum. 2. Hook-up culture necessarily invites a lot of acts that sit somewhere in that spectrum, for a million reasons, fundamentally due to the fact that men and women have different preferences and goals when it comes to sex vs romantic attachment & relationship commitment, but also, take your pick, widespread consumption of alcohol and drugs, to the sexual marketplace that gives more leverage to men because women feel they "must" have sex with a man earlier than they would like in order to have the prospect of a relationship, but also the fact that men are physically more powerful and intimidating than women. 3. This is obviously a big problem for feminists, because traditional culture had lots of socially-agreed-upon rules and scripts that seriously curtailed the problem above. They didn't completely eliminate it obviously, and maybe it had all these other drawbacks, but it did do that. MeToo (and its predecessor Title IX kangaroo courts) was an attempt to come up with a set of non-traditional socially-agreed-upon rules and scripts to address the problem, and again, I think at this point reasonable people are willing to admit that that failed. The only third option I see is the free-for-all of "consent" as the only formal rule, which of course leads you right back to the problem. 4. Guys like Platner are exactly what the current settlement produces and enables. Good Feminist Men(tm) are obviously the worst when it comes to this stuff. 5. I think we can safely say that this is the absolute final nail in the coffin of MeToo. Platner's cascade of revelations dragged the entire left into saying "Well, intimate relationships are super complicated and messy, and a bad hookup is not the same thing as a rape," and THEN it turns out that their guy is actually a rapist. 6. To the people (whether on the contrarian right or the Japanese-soldier-island left) who say that the Platner accusations STILL just fall somewhere in the messy hookup-violence spectrum without qualifying as rape-rape ("rape-rape"... dear God...)... Even if one were to agree to the facts (I don't)....the point of the observation in point 1 is not to say that therefore everything on that messy spectrum short of rape-rape is OK. The question was never: is it ok. The question was: should it be considered rape or sexual assault LEGALLY, and should someone's life/reputation/career be completely obliterated because they did something on the messy spectrum? 7. I am very comfortable in saying that while some of the stuff on the very far left of the hookup-rape spectrum is easily pardonable "messy lives" stuff, as you move on that spectrum you get into pretty fucking dark territory pretty fucking quickly. Maybe that stuff shouldn't be illegal. Certainly it shouldn't be sanctioned via cancel culture mob because nothing should be. But it doesn't therefore make it "ok". 7a. Re: Platner specifically, it seems to me that while it's unclear whether he used actual physical violence to get sex, he apparently used *physical intimidation*. Which, by the way, DOES fit the legal definition of rape! The bog-standard, old school, boring legal definition, not some post-MeToo redefinition. Cornering a woman in her own room and refusing to leave until she has sex with you IS rape, legally, period. And this is true even if he didn't have to forcibly pry her legs open! 7b. But again, even if that's not exactly what happened, I refer back to point 7. It's possible to simultaneously: (a) recognize "this stuff is on the spectrum"; (b) reject MeToo-style "everything is rape"; (c) say that an act that falls a little short of the legal definition of rape is still absolutely horrendous, disgusting, and makes you an absolute piece of shit. 7c. In a better world, the way this would have been solved is that, well before Platner had broken into anyone's home to demand sex, someone's brothers would have broken his fucking legs. Yes, that is indeed a horribly heteropatriarchal view of the case. As ever: if the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Young men are not voting for Democrats because our candidates keep slandering all men as rapists and Nazis The Plan? We run a rapist Nazi to show that there's a place for them in our party

It's a well-observed feature of every genocide through history that victims were extremely upset at being denied the opportunity to work for people trying to murder them.

It’s difficult for a normal person to understand what happened so I’ll try to explain. The terrorist committing a premeditated act of terror saw a cop coming to him and his comrades. He grabbed a rifle and fired at the cop. One of the bullets struck the cop. The terrorist’s defense that he actually argued in the court was that he wasn’t firing at the cop, he was firing a warning shot at the cop, and the bullet must have taken a ricochet then hit the cop because he didn’t actually mean to shoot the cop. Yes, that was his actual defense. This is why he was sentenced to 100 years lol.

😂 This “Nakba Survivor” is literally a “European settler” In the late 19th century, Muslim Bosnians (including Inea’s grandparents), fled Bosnia to Ottoman Syria, after Austria-Hungary took control of Bosnia. They feared that now, the Christians will seek revenge after years of mistreatment. Inea’s father’s family lived in Tulkaram, but he himself lived in Jerusalem where Inea was born. In the 1930’s, Inea’s father had a Job in England, he returned to Mandatory Palestine after a few years, but in 1948 they decided to move back to England. They were not expelled, and no one forced them to move to England. As a matter of fact, Tulkaram, and the old city of Jerusalem remained under Jordanian Arab control. Not a single Zionist to bee seen there. So in summary, this is a European with no strong roots in the land of Israel, whose family made the decision to immigrate back to the continent of their grandparents instead of remaining under Arab control. (And the “visit Palestine” poster on her wall is a Zionist poster by Franz Kraus to encourage Zionist tourism to the holy land. It’s not even the original poster, but a replica of the poster, with an additional Hebrew description mentioning his name 🤦‍♂️)

Islam once dominant endorses rape, murders civilians, and does actual massacre. Nothing Israel is doing now or if they had shown even more restraint would change how their enemies would act. Israel is still kinder in victory than her enemies