Biden’s asylum ban is cruel and exactly contrary to what he ran on when he condemned Trump for banning asylum.
I don’t know how to get Democrats in power to understand that embracing Republican policies won’t flip Republican voters. Whether it’s on bloated defense spending, police militarization, gutting social services, or restriction immigration—you cannot out racist elected Republicans.
@QasimRashid I think polling showing some/many Latinos drifting towards Trump has had a predictably terrible effect on Democratic immigration policies.
@interfluidity I believe something similar — that for many people, especially men, who doubt their own intelligence, social skills, and ability to compete in an increasingly complex and intellectual world, Trump represents evidence that they can be successful anyway, on their own terms.
This column was both painful and exhilarating to write. Painful because it forced me to reconsider long-standing assumptions. And exhilarating for the same reason!
I think it's a measure of how skewed is our attention economy that I'm an avid news consumer and I'm only just learning that 2.5 million Sudanese could be dead of starvation by the end of the summer
His ethical tradition does not strike me as unsurpassably subtle. To describe it as the Jewish tradition would be inaccurate and deeply antisemitic.
“[In times of war], it is correct to kill even the righteous among your enemy” seems like an excellent exoneration of Hamas.
What does “chosen” mean? To some, to the piece’s author, it’s exceptionalist, supremicist. To many Jews it is bitterly ironic and reflects a duty to which we are called rather than any privilege.
@interfluidity The question of whether and how God’s own actions represent morality or whether they create space for our free will to exercise (or fail to exercise) morality is a deep tension within Jewish tradition. To be honest, there isn’t a consistent answer and even among the philosophically inclined commentators, it’s difficult to find logical rigor.
@interfluidity I think it may be more helpful (or at least, interesting) to think of discussions of this kind in rabbinic Jewish tradition as a kind of infinite game intended to model and inspire a healthy community.
@w7voa Biden is somehow simultaneously a) a Manchurian candidate (doubtful Trump knows what this means) for some mysterious party, b) a master manipulator of NY State courts, c) the dumbest President ever.
"I'M A POLITICAL PRISONER," declares a fundraising ad on the RNC/MAGA webpage shortly after the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president is convicted of 34 felony counts.