Will Stancil

So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like

While you have First Amendment rights, free speech is not unlimited. Certain categories of speech are strictly prohibited by the US government: -incitement of violence -defamation -child pornography -counterfeiting -any form of criticism or mockery of Charlie Kirk, specifically

Every single Democrat needs to demand his immediate termination. We need to end this idiotic, pathetic nonsense where Dems go “erm, well, they’ll never listen to us… so I guess we have to keep our heads down…” We’re half this country and they’re talking about us like we’re animals. Stop it

I know people think they're not doing Left Kiwifarms but this site is 100% doing Left Kiwifarms and it's not okay regardless of how bad or annoying or wrong you think the targets are

I want to be very clear about this: the horrific ritual abuse dynamics on this website are in very large part the result of big accounts trying to avoid becoming targets themselves by not speaking up. It's always easiest to say "Eh they have it coming" and let responsibility diffuse to someone else.

The president of the United States hiding in catering truck to escape and avoid the blowback from the war he started while leaving a bunch of media and his own staff to potentially die. Real Profiles in Courage material right here. Heroic stuff.

Dollar for dollar there is literally no better place in politics to donate than state legislative races

Anyway it's definitely Twitter that is cooking brains, and only Twitter, and definitely not any other very similar site that is even more of a social pressure cooker, that people spend an equivalent amount of time on, with an even-more tightly delineated set of social and ideological expectations.

man did you torture small animals as a child or what anyway I think you may discover one day, perhaps unpleasantly, that "vocally disliking being abused" and "being spineless" are actually two separate things

That's correct, and part of the problem is that what happens in tightly networked social environments in which your perceived status is a precious commodity is that people generally pick sides (or at least, decided whether to engage or not engage) based on which side is bigger.

I understand that you guys love to believe that harassment is the norm of the internet, and people who complain about it are simply weaklings, but you're literally just giving yourself a thin pretext for unthinking mass abuse. Essentially no one who becomes that kind of pariah shrugs it off.

Obviously I am going to regret saying this, but as someone who has (frequently) disagreed with Jay Kang, and even (occasionally) gotten torn to shreds by him for doing so, I think people really underestimate the toll it takes seeing people turn on you to impress their online friends.

Yes, but even originalists don’t usually claim that originalism is necessary because the framers were simply possessed of wisdom beyond the reach of any living man