To be fair, I’m pretty mad at what you said, too. Specifically, I’m upset that you weren’t explicit and emphatic enough in expressing contempt for Kirk and satisfaction at his demise.
Your brother and your dad both deserve to be berated incessantly for their hatefulness. You’re worried about retaliation from them? They ought to be worried about retaliation from you!
IT’S TIME TO RETALIATE.
For every non-fascist they get fired, we need to get 10 fascists fired.
Saying good riddance to fascists isn’t “distasteful;” it’s a moral imperative. J.D. Vance’s words are obscene.
This is not “inch[ing] closer” to McCarthyism; this is taking a flying leap towards it. They are openly calling for war against all non-fascists. Believe them. They are coming to destroy us all, and we have to defend ourselves.
They have to LOSE and it has to happen by any means necessary.
Try to get her fired then.
right wing was 71% of all terrorist incidents. Muslim extremism was 26%
Not convinced the difference is meaningful, since religious extremists ain’t exactly lefties. Sounds more like 97% of terrorism is right-wing to to me.
I was about to go off on The New Republic about their credulous, fascist-apologist headline, but either there’s some A/B testing going on or it’s OP’s fault because actual headline I see is much more reasonable:
JD Vance Unveils Bonkers “Statistical Fact” on Charlie Kirk Shooting
The key feature of Cuban-Americans, as distinct from other Latinos, is that they’re here in the first place because they were the sorts of people to flee communism – i.e. right-wing bourgeoisie. We can make a lot of assumptions about their bigotry even without considering religion.
Manufacturing the giant steel vessel to hold her dish took a team of 300 people two months to make
WTF? That pot is not complicated enough to require that much labor, especially when they still managed to fuck it up. In a country of 250+ million people, surely it shouldn’t have been that hard to find a competent engineer and metalworker to help them with it, right?
Yes, obviously. You look at the context of the rest of their political positions to decide whether they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
You’re phrasing your question as if you’re implying an accusation of unfair bias, but it’s not unfair at all.
Okay, yeah, if Ben and Jerry (the people) have signed non-disclosure agreements preventing them from using their knowledge of the recipes at another company, that could indeed be an issue.
But what threw me off reading your comment is that trade secrets have absolutely fuck-all to do with copyright.
RMS has a good explainer about how trying to glom the unrelated concepts of copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets together as “intellectual property” is actively harmful loaded language, and falling for it results in the kind of cognitive bias and misunderstanding that you just exhibited. It’s more important than you probably yet appreciate that you make an effort to keep those concepts separate in your mind and talk about them with precision.
copyrights on their flavors
Jesse, WTF are you talking about?
They could trademark the flavor names and copyright the carton art, but they can’t copyright the recipes themselves.
and yet every other single mass-shooting incident has an entry
Does it? Are you sure they aren’t consolidated into a list, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2025 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000–present)#2025 ? 'Cause I would’ve thought that if every single one had its own Wikipedia page the lists would link to it, but they don’t.
IMO the trouble is that there are so many of the things now that I need a damn flowchart to understand how they work together and which ones I need.
(No, seriously: I want to set up an *arr stack but don’t understand how. Could somebody please send me a flowchart??)
What if these were synchronized for a reason and both were groypers?
That’s an interesting idea, but I think it isn’t in the news because school shootings have become so common that nobody (except you) thinks it’s anything but random coincidence.
Ditto for why there’s no Wikipedia entry: it fails the “notability” requirement.
What it takes is being a billionaire with monopolistic control of the media.
At least that’s how ‘the “This is extremely dangerous to our democracy” thing’ happened, anyway: it was ordered by a single entity who had the power to dictate what all those “separate” news stations must say.
The trouble is, that only works when you’re spewing the kind of hateful and violent rhetoric that rich elites want to hear. There’s a firehose of money being aimed at fascist influencers.
In contrast, you don’t see nearly as many anti-fascist or egalitarian influencers because the economics don’t work: the people who support the message don’t have any fucking money.
“Cancel culture” was never anything but right-wing projection. It is purely a propaganda term meant to demonize the practice of applying well-deserved consequences to bigoted and abusive behavior.
Retaliation against normal people for calling out hate isn’t “cancel culture;” it’s just more abuse.
So what you’re saying is, to prevent being overrun by jackbooted thugs we have to behave in such a way as to cause them to predict losses.
I am not really sure killing Charlie Kirk will help things in the long run.
You say that as if non-fascists had any choice in the matter. The even-more-extreme fascist who did it is directly opposed to “helping things” in the way you or I understand the term.
It’s 100%, because the other 60% is refusing to wrestle the keys away from them despite the car careening towards a cliff, out of some one-sided misguided sense of decorum or fairness or whatever.
Then go after her landlord. Or her friends.
Every fascist deserves to be ostracized fully from society.