You read his overall point or just focus on the stuff about Williamson? I imagine there are people in this thread who would advocate the death penalty for a woman who murdered her child. If you are under the premise that abortion is the murder of a child, then the death penalty would make sense. Obviously we all disagree with that absurd premise. But his broader point is that when you narrow what is acceptable discourse, you’re gonna astrocize the fuck out of people. You’re gonna start labeling pretty normal people as deplorable pieces of shit just because their political opinion doesn’t fall in line with what you find acceptable. You see it happening every day on this board.
Suggesting we execute women who get abortions is NOT acceptable discourse or "pretty normal." The fact that you believe it is says so much about you
If you literally believe abortion is the murder of a child, then yeah the death penalty for murdering a child is a logical conclusion. Again I think that premise is absolutely fucking absurd. But some people literally believe that abortion is murdering a human being. Actually a fuckload of people believe that.
A fuckload of people think we should shape foreign policy based on the book of revelations...that doesn’t make it a legitimate idea
You’re right. Thinking those people should be hanged instead of lethal injection (because it’s not harsh enough) is a totally normal mainstream thing.
woah man lets not say someone who wants to execute people for having abortions in a painful manner shouldn't have a platform WOULDNT WANT TO RADICALIZE ANYONE
Can anyone here help me pinpoint when exactly Donnie threatened $100 billion more in China tariffs? Spoiler
He’s gonna have a platform. It’s just not gonna be the Atlantic. And less conservatives are gonna read the Atlantic now and further entrench themselves in mediums that echo their point of view. Which is the problem with tribalism. Instead of facing other points of view we’re all doing our best to isolate ourselves from them. I thought the amount of people itt who liked a post about China banning the sale of the Bible instead of criticizing them for cracking down on free speech to be pretty telling. (I’m sure you’ll say those likes were ironic though)
and he won't have a platform at a somewhat reputable organization again, the right leaning nature of editorial boards doesn't bother people until the person is explicitly advocating murder show me one mainstream editorial board with the left lean that Shapiro and your ilk are wanting to give credence to from a rightward lean
There is little point in worrying about what shit tier conservatives choose to consume in terms of media. Overwhelm the deplorables with greater numbers...that is a far better solution than meeting those shitstains in some fucked up middle ground.
He is seriously suggesting that if a woman has an abortion we should get a rope and hang her. So a 16 year old girl has her neck snapped if she gets an abortion in his ideal world. In America. In 2018.
I can’t. That’s the point they’re trying to make. Every reputable media organization is left leaning. Because its journalists all live in nyc, LA, dc, or Chicago. They are all surrounded by people who would fit right in in this thread inside their offices and in their social lives. Most of those journalists went to great schools and most grew up just as wealthy as the people that you criticize so often. So the “deplorables” you so desperately want to educate or kill off like Dairy Queen suggests start turning to alternative mediums that are run by pieces of shit. Breitbart, infowars, dailystorm, or at best foxnews or national review. Hell I see you guys criticizing the nyt in here all the time for at least attempting to provide content with a conservative lean. That’s something you need to advocate so hopefully those same people will read the rest of the content they provide.
replace Erickson with Shapiro and you get the same result. this is why you don’t give their ilk platforms
for fuck’s sake merica really just hand waved Williamson saying he would violently execute all women who have had an abortion
Erick Erickson disinvited Donald Trump from his Red State convention because of the Megyn Kelly period comments. But disassociating from someone who wants to hang women who have abortions is apparently a bridge too far.
In what bizarro universe is that thread anything other than Shapiro blaming liberals for people being racists?
I know. Because no one besides people firmly entrenched in the left reads this thread any more. Look at the participation in the first few hundred pages compared to the circle jerk it’s become. I’d say 95% of tmb thinks trump’s a fucking moron but got exhausted by how this thread represents anyone with an opposing point of view, so they just stopped paying attention to it altogether. It’s representative of society as a whole.
you misread my post, editorial boards are broadly right of center, these papers bend over backwards to fit in the Bret stephens of the world but don't even come close to hiring the equivalent on the left (maybe hes a bad pick, because don't hire a moron from the left either, but point stands)
check the traffic and people actually posting in here many of them would scoff at this they just haven't crafted an ideology that protects from reality like you desperately try to do
So the wife beater outed the grifter as a grifter after the grifter outed the wife beater as a wife beater? That may be the most Trump Administration thing I have ever read...
This will never happen, democrats win the House and they’ll “reach across the aisle to restore working order”, as the GOP continues to move the country further right.
Personally I don’t think of myself as firmly entrenched on the left. It’s just an irrefutable and inescapable fact that ‘conservatives’ are raping and pillaging the country and I’m first and foremost vehemently opposed to those traitorous dogs doing that.
As a non-lawyer...no, mueller would not have Putin detained if he chose to visit the White House, and yes it would start a war. And since it hasn’t been mentioned yet...it was a wholly ridiculous question to begin with. slogan119
Yes I read the whole thread which is why I realized it was basically exactly the same bullshit you regurgitate on here all the time.