| Literature | SF/F fan |
| Perspectives | Anachronist |
| Religion | Skeptical |
| Politics | libertarian to conservative depending on the issue - anti-collectivist all the way |
@kineticdiplomacy I took it to be a sort of competition between competing views. If what you and (I presume) you think of as being the color blue is called "red" by someone else, they are attempting to impose a completely different frame of reference on the discussion.
If "blue" is blue then "red" cannot control the discussion.
Or the war in this case.
That's my simple take on what is a complex idea.
Dude. Just checked out your website. You've done so many book covers that made me buy those books!! Congrats.
@grrlscientist Bari is a standard issue liberal. The kind of person that is modestly left of center and prefers fact to insults and invective.
She is restoring fact, openness, and inquisitiveness to an industry that has been bereft of all three for decades.
Anyone pretending she represents conservativism has swung so far to the left that Bertolt Brecht appears mildly right-wing.
@thenewrepublic @politics-thenewrepublic
Thanks for justifying my continuing effort to not read your magazine.
Bari is an old-school liberal. Moderately left of center. About as dangerous as a newborn kitten.
Unless you are a propagandist masquerading as a journalist. Then she's the competition and you are about to get your rhetorical doors blown off by actual journalism.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@variety_feed/115311300364148693
Good. She is an outstanding example of what it means to be liberal as well as what it means to be a journalist.
Maybe leadership by example can right the course of American journalism.
@LukefromDC That sort of mischaracterization is what is driving things in the wrong direction. Everyone does it. Instead of having a sense of scale, we turn it up to 11. Every single time.
Trump perhaps the 3rd most authoritarian President in the last ~100 years. But he's a long way from being either a fascist or a Nazi.
Le socialisme est le gouvernement officiel de l'imaginaire. Il ne fait progresser la condition humaine que dans l'imagination.
@LukefromDC Given the dearth of real fascists in the country (much less referenced/in this discussion) you have quite the search ahead of yourself.
Enjoy! Be well.
Which is why I asked for proof.
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/09/viral-claims-about-charlie-kirks-words/
In the fullest context of what he was saying, he did not advocate that anyone be stone to death.
Hyper-partisan sources love to pick limited quotes and stretch them well beyond a reasonable interpretation of events.
Also, Charlie mis-quoted Lev. 18, but that's a separate issue. Lev. 18 does not call for stoning in any of the versions that I cycled through in the last few days - specifically responding to this false claim.
Since the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, social media users have shared posts showing, quoting or paraphrasing remarks the posts attribute to the conservative activist. Many readers have asked us to provide the facts on whether Kirk, the founder of the youth political group Turning Point USA, made several of these comments.