@ArmandDoma There’s such a specific vibe to the right’s cringey shibboleths. “Gulf of America”, “Freedom Fries”, “Eye-raq”, “the Democrat Party”, etc. It’s like they’re going for ‘proudly dumb’ or something. FTR, the left clearly goes for ‘awkwardly neutral HR/therapy speak’.

@DAlperovitch If credible conventional security guarantees are off the table at this point, EU should help Ukraine rapidly restore its own nuclear deterrent.

@asymmetricinfo And before the Obama/Biden era, the GOP spent 40+ years campaigning against “activist judges”, and before that it was Dixiecrats, and McCarthyites, and New Dealers, and…and…and….

@jerrysalttweets @ArmandDoma No, I’m fairly confident that the need for US humanitarian aid will decline at some point between now and the heat death of the Universe.

@jerrysalttweets @ArmandDoma 🤷‍♂️ Ok, well, next time maybe sac up and admit upfront that you just don’t give a shit about starving babies instead of pretending your objection to aid is based on concern about its duration or effectiveness.

@AGHamilton29 @9NEWS Did the ICE agents know that when they started questioning and detaining him? If not, then yeah, they actually did randomly question and detain him.

@jerrysalttweets @ArmandDoma I know this may be a difficult moral intuition for you to accept, but you filling out a 1040-EZ once a year and a child starving to death in his mother’s arms are not equivalent harms.

@NoahCRothman Make their return an absolute, non-negotiable condition to any settlement. And make the parallel to Hamas clearly and loudly. “No peace until Russia (Hamas) releases all of the hostages & every Ukrainian (Israeli) child is returned to their family.”

@jerrysalttweets @ArmandDoma As long as they need it and we can afford it. The cost to Americans of all US humanitarian aid works out to about 13 cents per day for each of us. You really can’t be fussed to kick in a dime each day to save that baby’s life and the lives of thousands upon thousands like him?

@ArmandDoma You think that’s bad? I accidentally knocked a bag of peanuts and a can of Pringles off their minibar pressure sensors in my hotel room last night! I can only assume Marriott’s lawyers are putting a lien on my house as we speak.

@cremieuxrecueil Oh good. Just what the doctor ordered - Soviet-style political commissars embedded everywhere to monitor/report/punish civil servants who displease “the Party”.

@mattyglesias Exactly! Strange Millennials doomscrolling on Twitter, distributing takes, is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive authority is derived from a mandate of the algorithms, not some farcical electronic oratory!

@SiegelMicha @mattyglesias Says the rando with ~750 followers and a blue check….

@mattyglesias So you can be lastingly mad about stuff instead? “When you want the kind of rage-fuel that really sticks to the ribs and helps you stay mad all day long, nothing beats a book!”

@abarber1 @lymanstoneky @EthonRaptor @KelseyTuoc Ah, thanks. I parachuted into this conversation w/o the background b/c it popped up on my feed, and, of course, The Algorithm must be obeyed!

@abarber1 @lymanstoneky @EthonRaptor @KelseyTuoc Relatedly, if there are reasonable, good faith arguments both ways, and the costs/downsides are so low, isn’t there a strong prudential case for continuing the program just in case?

@benryanwriter I probably agree w/ you more than I disagree, but from the very start of the Trump era there’s been this chorus of folks shocked to discover that the right’s whole brand of appealing to bigoted assholes maybe meant that a lot of them were in fact bigoted assholes. It’s baffling.

@SonnyBunch Meh, doesn’t seem like that big a swing yet. Now, if/when they pull Song of the South out of the vault, then we’ll be into “anti-woke reaction” territory for real!