Daniel Harper

This is a fun one. We'll be talking more about Daily Wire media down the line I think.

If there's one book I'd recommend to someone looking to understand the history of white nationalism in the USA in the 20th century, it's this one.

In June Bovino appeared on "Identity Politics" with Kevin DeAnna, who has decades under his belt as an open white nationalist under a series of pseudonyms. From the context of the conversation there is no way that Bovino could not have known how extreme DeAnna was. This is now ordinary politics.

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This is not super uncommon. Projects this small you don't read the script before taking the job. It's all "we need Danny for these days" and the agent saying "he's available if you've got the money." I bet Danny's agent asks more questions going forward.

One of these men has some familiarity with gay culture because he is a well-regarded actor with decades of experience. #rimshot

The median Republican staffer is what we would have called alt-right in 2016. Spencer, Peinovich, Cantwell, et al are pathetic losers today, but they pointed our body politic to a palatable 21st century fascism.

Worth noting here that Andrew Kolvet, spokesman for TPUSA, also endorses state-murder-as-spectacle, after defenders of Charlie Kirk insisted *his* call for such executions as mandatory viewing for kids was just banter (there's video; it wasn't) & that saying otherwise was defaming his memory.

Thinking of seeing a movie tonight. Digger or Primetime? Anyone have thoughts?

Him, Donkeylips and the whole crew deserve nothing but milk, honey and eternal valuable residuals

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NEW IDSG NEWS EP: @danielharper.bsky.social tells me about Tucker and Algebra, and The Kirkaversary, and I tell him about the last month in UK Fascism (i.e. Reform UK's money, Dover 'protests', Danny Tommo, and Piddington secedes) linking back to last ep. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/news-roundup...

Wahey, @danielharper.bsky.social & I just recorded an interesting curio of a newsy episode, taking in Tucker Carlson's thoughts on algebra, a report from me on This Month in UK Fascism, and some ruminations on the Kirkaversary.

make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards

Some More News has a really great explainer about Mitch McConnell for those either too young or insufficiently interested to remember, and the degree to which that little man has shaped USAian politics is unreal. @codyjohnston.bsky.social @somemorenews.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuHC...

Weiss's target demo throughout her entire career has been wealthy metro-area elites who are very racist and hate their more liberal neighbors, and if you have half a brain and aren't one of those guys yourselves, it would be extremely obvious that's a self-limiting population.

This is also the answer to "why are so many Jewish people in showbiz or banking"

social media is not "just wanting to communicate with your friends". And Taylor knows it. This is a deliberate denial of basic reality, and a large body of science on how algorithmic social media can harm kids in particular.

There’s a story about how Allied soldiers made the adults of the towns next to concentration camps walk through the camps during the waning months of WWII. Stacy here needs to be first in line when all of this is said and done.

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

It is a mark of the creeping fascism we live under that the "moderates" definitionally are going to move further right. To blithely accept this is to fundamentally give in to the worst of the worst.

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

the other day my neighbor said that he doesn't eat McDonald's anymore because an AI generated version of Ronald McDonald told him the Shamrock shake has [spooky voice] "58 ingredients." he was holding a cigarette while telling me this

The chuds can't (or won't) learn the difference between antifascists and resistance libs. (This is a feature for them, not a bug, as it means they can prosecute normie liberals as evil antifa terrorists on a whim.)

it seems to me the dynamic at the center of it all is people have broadly learned? decided? that things they see in real life are fake or for content, and everything they see online is real and true.

thinking about the literal neonazis in nyc and general indifference/skepticism of them being real they were met with plus the prevalence of the fascist-led conspiracy that jake lang is faking his hate bc he was raised jewish

But yes please let's spend the next few months on an extended referendum on Hasan Piker's spiciest out of context takes.

Someone does not remember 1) gay people are still discriminated against in many ways in this country, even where it's "illegal" 2) the very militant wing of the gay rights movement for decades, that was quietly papered over by wealthy gays who just wanted to get the tax benefits of marriage.

If you cannot be trusted to stand up for transgender Americans when they’re facing what some experts call a genocide, I don’t trust you to stand up for anything.

No one should be afraid of him. He's showing right now that when it comes down to it, he'll throw communities under the bus if it's politically convenient. Not even elected and he's bending to pressure from the right. Really disappointing.

you will never, in your entire life, make as much money as the people who are incapable of coming up with ideas like "Miss Piggy flirts with Ryan Gosling" or "Pedro Pascal tries not to laugh at Fozzy's dumb jokes" make in a year

My favorite thing about this ad is that Waterson deliberately plays it wooden -- as if he personally had been paid to do the ad read and take the money and run. It's glorious.

I'm not actually certain this is a wrong answer.

i'm reminded of american abortion arguments when roe was overturned, a bunch of people warned bans would mean women with ectopic pregnancies dying & were told "stop being silly, it'll be common sense" now it's happening & the response is . . . *shrugs*

This is a powerful story from a trans Texan (who's also quite a talented independent journalist). I've been arguing that trans people have the right to be upset with Talarico, and I think we do. This is the case for vote for him anyway, eloquently made, and by someone with the standing to make it.

“youre goddam right im for them just like im for all texans” wouldve gone hard as a rebuttal had talarico not just spent the last 3 days tripping over himself to move right on this issue congrats to the talarico team for painting yourselves into a very predictable corner

I should have read the thread first. (I'm behind on the news.) www.portlandmercury.com/sports/alleg... Carry on.