Lastgirl posted:

Serf posted:

if we assume that the future is bleak and there is no victory, why are we sticking around?

Mayor Dave posted:

The feeling of vindication when we can turn to the optimists and say I told you so

GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:

Randy Quaid's character from the Vacation movies wondering how he got into this mess in the upper right.

Lastgirl posted:

mormonpartyboat posted:

V. Illych L. posted:

corbyn wasn't a particularly strong candidate but that's a point or two of swing. the campaign was mostly fine, though it lacked one really big focus. the problem was not really the campaign, it was that the political moment was mishandled - possibly it couldn't have been handled properly at all, given political reality, but there it is

Serf posted:

i'm pretty cynical but its getting harder to enjoy it while getting poorer

Serf posted:

if we assume that the future is bleak and there is no victory, why are we sticking around?

FAUXTON posted:

seems like he's advocating nazism

An insane mind posted:

Hey, this too will end. We're, hopefully, at the bottom of the bell curve now and like...with Brazil, China, Poland, the U.S., U.K. my own little poo poo country all dangling at the absolute bottom of the barrel we have no lower to go.

We have no where to go other than up.

thotsky posted:

Corbyn was a uniquely stong candidate, what the gently caress are you on about? It's not like he would have won if has was more of a snack on top of it all or anything; he never got the chance to make his case.

spacemang_spliff posted:

lmaos

Why would you want to not see the most lmao rich period of human history?

fatninja187 posted:

He is pissed at me for getting him to " vote for a loser"

Tiler Kiwi posted:

either sentiment I can guess this means is morbidly interesting to me. "you made me vote for a little weakling who couldn't even smash his own dick in a door like a man" is dumb and "the person i cast a vote for lost and this upsets me as I only want to vote for people who win" would be actually shocking.

Serf posted:

its getting harder to lmao as my material conditions continue to deteriorate

mormonpartyboat posted:

it means he sucks rear end op

Subpar Superhero posted:

he’s calling for white nationalism op

FAUXTON posted:

seems like he's advocating nazism

Serf posted:

he's describing the platform of josh hawley, actual nazi

quote:

In 1994, Sullivan published excerpts on race and intelligence from Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's controversial The Bell Curve, which argued that some of the measured difference in IQ scores among racially defined groups was a result of genetic inheritance. Almost the entire editorial staff of the magazine threatened to resign if material that they considered racist was published.[29] To appease them, Sullivan included lengthy rebuttals from 19 writers and contributors. He has continued to speak approvingly of the research and arguments presented in The Bell Curve, writing, "The book ... still holds up as one of the most insightful and careful of the last decade. The fact of human inequality and the subtle and complex differences between various manifestations of being human—gay, straight, male, female, black, Asian—is a subject worth exploring, period."[31] According to Sullivan, this incident was a turning point in his relationship with the magazine's staff and management, which he conceded was already bad because he "was a lousy manager of people".[29] He left the magazine in 1996.

A Gnarlacious Bro posted:

That's called being normal

Mayor Dave posted:

The feeling of vindication when we can turn to the optimists and say I told you so

mrmcd posted:

Seriously starting at "the PC woke mafia has gone too far. Won't someone think of decorum?!" and then unintentionally landing on Nazism is probably peak Andrew Sullivan.

Lastgirl posted:

neutral milf hotel posted:

holy poo poo Andrew Sullivan is a race realist and thinks approvingly of Charles Murray

mormonpartyboat posted:

pathetic little tramp posted:

He blames the house democrats for blocking trump's ability to make deals with health insurance companies so now the insurance companies are being forced to charge more to pay for the democrats new taxes that they're using to pay for the "coloured boys down the street who don't have a job" (the black family down the street is a wife who is the superintendent of schools, a husband who owns a civil engineering firm, and a son who is going to - I forget what school, but prestigious, CMU, NYU? - for theatre)

spacemang_spliff posted:

Sullivan is a Thatcherite anti PC crusader who yes, thinks Murray not being taken seriously on the race realism is political correctness.

He's defended not just Murray but the bell curve multiple times

mrmcd posted:

He was also solidly in the succ Dem camp under the Bush years until gay marriage became legal and then went 100% gently caress you got mine as soon as the ink was dry on his own marriage certificate.

The whole openly gay Nazis subplot (Sullivan, Thiel, Yiannopoulos) is one of the weirder aspects of our hellworld timeline.

EL BROMANCE posted:

at least the yanks are enthusiastic in their stupidity, the brits did their usual “ho hum I guess I better go vote to ensure the living hell that is my life doesn’t change for the better”.

like I’m sure that Labour would’ve still been able to gently caress this up down the road if they’d achieved power, but let’s just ensure the fuckening is guaranteed shall we.

Subpar Superhero posted:

ya, sullivan is famously a guy who thinks science would prove non-white people subhuman if liberals weren’t standing in the way