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If they didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all.
The hypocrisy is by design: it's how they mock and taunt you with their power.
“Never believe that [racists and bigots] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [racists and bigots] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” -- Jean-Paul Sartre
You can leave the "antisemite" in, as Sartre demonstrates in the essay, "the Jew" is just a blank cypher anyway.
As a Trekker, I just think, James T. Kirk would be so disappointed in Charlie.
It's easy to think (especially if you never actually watched the old Star Trek) that Kirk got ladies left and right, that he'd be one of the MAGA guys, too, in our time. But nah, he was at least as philosophical as Picard in conversation and introspection. He could just kick your ass. Like Sisko (Deep Space Nine). (And he didn't get laid nearly as much as people think. He just shared the first on-screen interracial kiss on national television.)
i have seen way more people talking about how bad political murder is when the attempted murder of the current presdent of the USA happened than hundreds of thousands of trans people dying due to transphobia
He invented a new verb: to kirk someone/to get kirked.
Hypocrites and snowflakes the lot of them