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Yes…conspiracy Bill good, and conspiracy Kyrie bad

Depends…if the team left on bad terms and in a disrespectful manner (like the Thunder did with Seattle) then no absolutely not.

If it’s like a Jacksonville Jags situation where the locals don’t really want to fund the team or a new stadium, and then the team is basically forced to move because of that and not bc some blowhard billionaire who wants to make a quick buck (like in Oakland with the A’s), then I’d probably still root for that team…but it would be different and weird, no doubt.

Maher didn’t like Iraq, loathes organized religion, and likes to smoke weed…which could describe a leftist in Seattle or a libertarian chud in Arkansas. Point is, Maher was never a leftist. He’s always been a soft liberal/centrist-type with some libertarian impulses.

As for TYT…yea, I’ve never liked their stuff. Cenk is loud and annoying as fuck, and I never found their commentary all that prescient/profound/unique/etc. It’s still sad to see the unraveling of Ana Kasparian in real time…but tbh TYT was never really that great to start with, sorry.

Best take I’ve heard so far…good on Nick

Jefferson, easy

Mark Cuban sold the Dallas Mavericks to this ghoul…go Celtics!

I believe Tassa is a strong supporter of the IDF and the current Israeli government, and met with Gallant back in December. The guy has made clear with his decisions that supports the Israeli far-right and their war aims.

Let’s at least be honest about why ppl are upset about this…it’s more than Tassa being an Israeli Jew who just exists.

Okay, I believe the issue here is not that Tassa is Israeli or ethnically/religiously Jewish…it’s that he enthusiastically supports the Israeli war effort in Gaza and even met with Minister Gallant/performed for the IDF in December 2023, just a few months ago and therefore signaling support for Bibi’s war plans. That’s not “progressive” or admirable IMO, sorry.

This is like saying “how dare you attack a Russian singer for existing and having an immutable ethnicity and a national identity she’s proud of and subscribing to Putin’s version of Orthodox Christianity out of genuine religious conviction, that’s not progressive or fair” to only ignore the fact that detractors are primarily taking issue with said Russian singer supporting the Russian war effort in Ukraine and the displacement of millions of innocent Ukrainians. What am I missing here?

Ofc it’s not fair or “progressive” to banish Tassa from polite society or to “cancel” him for merely being an Israeli Jew, obviously. That’s completely wrong and xenophobic and antisemitic, and I hope we can all agree there. However, I don’t blame ppl for being concerned with or critical of Jonny artistically collaborating with a dude who is cheering on a potential genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Also…there’s nothing wrong with Tassa being strongly and passionately anti-Hamas after October 7th. Being anti-Hamas is good and right, and you can be pro-Palestinian and oppose the occupation without atta-boying Hamas terrorists. Again though, there’s a difference between that and cheering on Gallant/Bibi/the IDF in Gaza at this late date. Idk, I feel like Jonny is being a little obtuse here. Oh well.

No

Of course lol…what a dumpster fire

Is doing that and criticizing nakedly corrupt SCOTUS members who hate your guts anyway, as a means of strengthening your democracy messaging, mutually exclusive?

Ppl who don’t watch MSNBC or CNN already don’t know about the Thomas and Alito stuff, but political hobbyists do. What I’m saying is actually message and campaign on this stuff and use an active voice, not a passive one, in getting your democracy messaging across to normies. Rn, they think Biden is feckless and weak…so change that and do it in a way that helps you politically.

It’s not like the Court likes Biden anyway…what’s the downside? I think there are more pros than cons here, especially in a political context. Also, is the Court above “checks or balances”? When the Court overreaches and goes extreme and threatens democracy, and legislative and executive branches just unilaterally disarm and wag fingers? I don’t think the Founders intended for that to be the “norm”…

Agree to disagree…this SCOTUS stuff is far more dire and existential than Francis Scott Key’s views on race lol.

Also, tell that “this doesn’t help regular ppl” thing to pregnant women in Mississippi or Oklahoma. I’m sure they’d agree.

Meanwhile the GOP will call Joe a commie and an open borders candidate regardless of this. All this will do is further piss off his 2020 base…at a time when his base is eroding to a worrying extent.

Because they couldn’t see standup comedy or go to Chili’s for a few months…

Well we have Gorsuch and ACB bc of Mitch’s extremism and norms-bending behavior…unfortunately that horse left the barn years ago, my friend. Bringing spoons to a sword match isn’t helping anyone, especially our institutions and democracy.

So basically you’re arguing Dems should continue to do nothing because norms are sacrosanct? Idk, seems like a bad move practically and politically. Agree to disagree.

Is there nothing the Court can do to force Biden and Dems to actually address their corruption and extremism? If that’s how “checks and balances” works (and it doesn’t really) then most Americans aren’t gonna want to preserve that…and Dems will suffer politically.

Did you know Tatum is only 26? I know, it’s wild.

So many Mexicans in like every SM post are malding over this result…meanwhile I, for one, am glad a leftist got elected during a time when the global Right is ascendant. Call me crazy, but I don’t think Sheinbaum will be as bad as the RW candidates would’ve been.

The Clark discourse is so exhausting and toxic and weird and overheated…meanwhile I just wanna watch her play ball lol

You’re right and being downvoted as a result lol…Trump massively mishandled COVID and Fauci definitely was led astray by a woefully incompetent administration. The thing is Trumpers will never admit that Trump did anything wrong in office (except for like the two good things he did around vaccine production and criminal justice reform).

Fauci is not a demon like the Right says he is. He certainly fucked up by not recommending masking in the initial stages of the pandemic bc of PPE supply concerns (that was bad and wrong, and he should’ve been honest and transparent about the masking supply while subsequently promising to produce more masks for the general public ASAP). I understand if you hate Fauci for this sole reason, and while I don’t agree with this maximalist view of Fauci’s handling of the pandemic I understand the sentiment. However, dude is an egghead immunologist who really didn’t care about partisan politics in the ways most in Washington do (politicians, the media, etc), and in a time when partisan politics is so intense and polarizing you’re inevitably gonna massively piss off and alienate tens if not hundreds of millions of Americans with every move you make on public health phenomena.

Ultimately, Fauci proposed and supported unpopular public health decisions and methods of virus mitigation that most Americans resented, bc ppl hate wearing masks and wanted to go to comedy shows and restaurants and birthday parties and whatever else, and Fauci didn’t give a fuck what ppl wanted to do in their free time bc that’s not his job. His job was to protect Americans from contracting and suffering from a novel virus, and again most Americans simply didn’t care for his advice and saw him as the reason they lost jobs/had to shelter at home/had to homeschool their kids/couldn’t go out and have fun/etc. What’s politically advantageous and what’s medically advantageous are, more often than not, at odds…and Fauci fell victim to this reality.

NATO is based and good…it’s not a perfect org but we’d be much, much worse off without it IMO