@hyggepants @steinkobbe A great many people will see suffering and just not care, regardless of the rightness or the moral suasion of those who oppose it, and you obviously know this. It does not follow that an unpopular position is "unpleasant", whatever that means, and the same goes vice-versa.

@CStephens2001 @KnowingBetterYT Because right-wing online subcultures emerged from that (e.g. Gamergate), they regularly used this and other memes, and over time were identified with them as their most visible users. There's no "trick" -- online-subculture RWers used them, and other people simply noticed.

@ygzgzot The generous interpretation is that "they" refers to Dems, and that Trump would have won in 2020 and thus would have had those years as his second term rather than these ones had the Dems not rigged it then.

@chroniclekats I sympathize fully. At the time of Thatcher's death I made a joke about how hell would finally freeze over because Maggie would close the pits, which unfortunately did not go over well.

@HoneyTongueMuse @voiceofgeraldo SSPX Nazis

Most anti-Wilson (translator) types are scared to acknowledge that they are 21st-century dweebs fiddling with a computer or phone aping 20th century dweebs at a typewriter aping 19th century ones, so on and so on. Simply anti-modernity reactionaries. Poetry is tertiary at best.

@Alexander_Avina That isn't even how it worked in the movie. The whole point of the movie is that it doesn't work like that.

@jelly_pack Do California tech bros think that there are just constant random trash fires scattered across urban streets and neighborhoods? Why else would they prompt things that way?

@dferris1961 @adam_tooze @haaretzcom 1. The source is Haaretz, not the Nazi. 2. The sane prefer no association with a Nazi, if it can be helped. Per 1, it can be. 3. RTing links to the Nazi's page. Even if one agrees with the reporting shared this once, why link to a dipshit Nazi's page with their other ramblings?

@brendenmoore13 4129 looks like a samurai clan kamon. Who is the daimyo of Illinois, so that I might pledge my fealty?

@JDVance Conservative psychosexual neurosis becomes more and more clear every day.

Even much of the criticism of this tweet implicitly agrees that doing "unfathomable suffering" to others ensures safety for you and yours, but that you shouldn't do it because of moral concerns. You don't need to: this kind of fascist attitude clearly makes everyone more unsafe.

@quendergeer This is the kind of person that calls Vatican II "woke".

@MargBarAmerica If we adopted the French Republican calendar, every month would look like this. Something to consider.

The funniest people to check on in the aftermath of this are the WASBAPPIN types.

@lastpositivist They voluntarily opt out, mostly, as places and spaces become more openly hostile to them. The op-ed is part of a wider cultural shift. Fewer reactionaries publishing in or working at Nature seems like a good thing to me.

@InternetHippo My favorite CW anecdote is that the Confederates read Les Miserables, except edited to remove Hugo's republicanism and abolitionism. While defending slavery, they saw Hugo's downtrodden and revolutionaries and said "yup, that's me." They even called themselves Lee's Miserables.

What's with Napoleon having so many shooters recently? I even saw a recent take arguing that "Marxism can't explain how good Napoleon was". Is the paradigm of lib historiography these days just Bonapartism?