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    Really, he’s barely even a person at all. Mostly he’s just a vehicle for his massive ego.

    Shapiro is one of the best examples (alongside Paul Krugman until he recently went rogue) of what I think of as an unconscious volunteer tool.

    That is to say, I don’t think he consistently spews rhetoric that benefits the oligarchs as some sort of deliberately self-serving scheme (as opposed to for instance Jesse Watters).

    I think he spews rhetoric consistently beneficial to the oligarchs because some among the oligarchy told him how much of a genius he was when he first started spewing it, and now his ego won’t allow him to do anything else, no matter the bizarre quasi-logical contortions he has to go through.















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    The Israeli mass slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children has made me wish, more than anything else in 50+ years on this Earth, that the Old Testament God actually existed.

    Imagine the fire and brimstone He’d rain down on those patently evil motherfuckers.

    And bonus points if He kvetched while he did it - “Here I went ahead and made you My chosen people and this is how you repay Me? If I’d known this was what you were going to do with your lives, I would’ve left you in the desert.”



  • I’d never thought of it in these specific terms before, but the essentially educational and fear-ameliorating nature of your post led me to realize that it’s likely that a lot of what Nintendo’s doing with all of this legal barnstorming is essentially PR, and that’s all it’s meant to be.

    They have little hope of actually winning cases or of doing anything more than cutting off one head of the hydra if they do, and all of their safeguards can be and will be worked around, repeatedly if necessary, so from a practical standpoint, they’re fighting a losing battle. But all of their noise and aggressive posturing likely serves to scare a lot of less-informed gamers into not emulating in the first place, so it furthers their goals anyway.