I was a doctrinaire right-libertarian in a previous life, and I have been able to grasp at least the seductive nature of a lot of Republicanism. But I can't honestly understand how this is a priority for you *unless* you are a eugenicist who feels nothing for the sick and dead
The upper global bound for estimated deaths from the Chernobyl disaster is 60,000, and most experts say it's nowhere near that. Republicans like DeSantis are killing many more people than Dyatlov, Fomin and Bryukhanov did, in similar authoritarian denialist-kitsch fashion
Back when I wrote this, Florida had lost 3,000 people to Covid. Today, the toll stands at 18,596 newrepublic.com/article/158215…
If nothing changes from the policies in place today, sometime next spring, the number of Floridians lost to Covid will exceed the number of votes by which Ron DeSantis won his election for governor

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Couple notes to add to this wild scoop by @ErinBanco and @swin24, which you absolutely must read, about Pompeo running a "salt the earth" strategy on US-Iran relations: thedailybeast.com/trump-tells-po…
Last night on @MehdiHasanShow, @tparsi and @barbaraslavin1 discussed precisely this possibility: that the Trump admin and its ME allies want to deepen tensions with Iran to prevent them from having any rapport with a Biden admin:
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Really tired of all the "responsible" conservatives saying Trump needs to accept the election results "to protect his legacy." It's a pleasant fiction to paper over all the unpleasant ones. Refusing to hand over power is a pretty standard part of a demented genocidaire's legacy
I'm just wondering how long he has to be out of office before it's mainstream acceptable to say yes, he was, in fact, a genocidaire
The thing about fascism that always gets me, when you bracket out the hatred and death, is it's all so fucking kitschy
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Ayn Rand built a whole literary empire around the lie that personal profit motivates people to do the right thing and I just want to dig up her moldy corpse and prop it on a stool at this bar in my hometown
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I-- did you-- do you not know who-- you just-- AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
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I can't tell you what it means to me personally to see another poor-born Ivy-educated big-bodied bald tattooed rockabilly making it
That makes me sound remotely as cool as him, which
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