Open Mic for the week of 2/24/2025
On this day in 1803, Marbury v. Madison established Judicial Review.
There’s a phenomenon where someone writes an essay about this or that but someone else wants to discuss something that has not yet made it to the front page.
This is unfair to everybody involved. It’s unfair to the guy who wrote the original essay because, presumably, he wants to talk about his original essay. It’s unfair to the guy who wants to talk about his link because it looks like he’s trying to change the subject. It’s unfair to the people who go to the comments to read up on the thoughts of the commentariat for the original essay and now we’re talking about some other guy’s links.
So!
The intention is to have a new one of these every week. If you want to talk about a link, post it here! Or, heck, use it as an open thread.
And, if it rolls off, we’ll make a new one. With a preamble just like this one.
“This isn’t the Trump administration I voted for”:
https://wtop.com/virginia/2025/02/this-civil-servant-and-veteran-voted-for-trump-now-hes-out-of-a-job/Report
Something something g leopards eating faces something something.Report
Joy Reid is out at MSNBC. Variety has a breakdown of how she let down her queer audience down.Report
In case you thought Gamergate was (thankfully) dead, think again.
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/24/what-elon-musks-on-workers-owes-to-gamergate/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3vgEbIUyGo97txIyYIeIhVlMPo0INU7lur473GMFAWaNrucatby5P5Ul8_aem_nnTTyw26XnS0x8tZaA1oDwReport
What if we thought that Gamergate was a failed run on the part of a particular social movement that telegraphed all of the coming drama and showed the playbook that the future political fights would be using and, as such, gave away how to fight against this social movement in the future against such movements as the one pushing Harris for president in 2024 thus making Trump 47 possible?
Oh, it’s Amanda Marcotte.
Not even.Report
It’s highly unlikely sane people would have conceived that such a conspiracy theory would signal a mass political movement, yet here we are. I mean, where do you even begin to try to counter such a nonsensical thing?Report
Your definition of “sane” is too narrow.
“where do you even begin to try to counter such a nonsensical thing?”
I’d definitely support going out of your way to trying to think nonsensically as a first step. “Sense” may be holding you back as much as “sane” is.Report