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Mar 29·edited Mar 29

"Overt antisemitism, anti-LGBT animus, and explicit racism are now common from the party’s leaders, candidates, and official social media accounts."

Unfortunately in 2024 one can never take these claims at face value without evidence. People say "anti-LGBT animus" when they mean qualms about expedited child castration, and "explicit racism" in describing the suggestion that maybe Vikings weren't actually black.

"He has urged the Biden administration to consider the war in Ukraine from the perspective of Russians, repeating debunked excuses and rationalizations for Putin’s actions."

You may not agree with what he says in the linked article, but it certainly isn't "debunked." I don't know what precisely you are referring to, but most of what he says is absolutely true.

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When serious writers cover the political history of our era, RFK Jr. and today's Libertarian Party will be addressed with brief footnotes.

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The "natural good, human-made bad" mentality that antivax stuff is based on is not only a silly superstition (see Hinkley, 1964-67), it's pretty damn masochistic.

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I remember him at Harvard. Geez, he’s even worse than I thought.

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