I don’t want to wade into the ‘who can Twitter ban’ discourse but I will just say that Fuentes is what happens when a little man goes through his youth without ever getting punched in the face.
Every man should have an intuitive sense of how punchable their personality is and my hot take on DC is that it’s biggest problem is the percentage of men for whom that isn’t true.
Gonna start a DC masculinity cult where dudes go to the gym and actually lift weights, love their neighbors as themselves and don’t ever think about wearing sunglasses like Fuentes has here.
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It really does confuse me that “just sue the government whenever it violates your rights” as a conservative alternative to passing better laws didn’t die with the decade (and counting) of harassment Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop have experienced. google.com/amp/s/www.chri…
Good lawyers have been enormously important to the conservative movement, esp in beating back the excesses of progressivism. But a legal approach is fundamental insufficient as the only tool of public policy.
People will frame this as legislating morality, anti-small government, whatever. But, at its root, it’s a recognition that legislatures need to legislate, and that task can be done for reasons both good and ill. We shouldn’t ignore an entire branch of government.
1. Really bad 2. Rioters should be punished under the law 3. Obviously not a ‘coup’ or coup attempt or ‘insurrection’ 4. Undeserving of the attention it continues to get/overblown by left/media 5. Doesn’t tell us much about state of the country
There should be enough here to piss off most parties
I get that there’s lots of commentaries about how awful it is that people have downplayed how bad it is, but most of the takes from serious people that I think miss the mark are about extrapolating too much from a really unique and isolated incident.
A lot of media outlets are bending over backwards to avoid saying that @SenWhitehouse’s decades-long membership in and familial part-ownership (!) of an all-white beach club is racist.
Take a look at the mental gymnastics involved so far ⤵️
I want to start with @nytimes because the way they’ve handled it is emblematic of coverage broadly for two reasons:
1. They’ve mostly ignored it - so far, just a brief mention in their daily roundup 2. They’ve omitted the actual criticism from the title (“exclusive” not racist)
This “exclusive” (vs. problematic) framing is everywhere.
At a time when race/racism has dominated US media coverage, having a (Democratic) Senator as a member/his wife as a part-owner apparently makes it simply an “elite private club” instead of an all-white one to @CBSNews.
Okay I assumed that WaPo video couldn’t be as bad as people were saying but I watched it and it is so much worse, to a point where I can’t even describe it. Just watch: washingtonpost.com/video/the-lily…
“White accountability groups are really helpful” this must be a spoof
“White people need to start getting together, specifically about race” no no guys I’m no expert here but I’m quite confident that this is part of the problem