It gets worse -- he recently teamed up with Trevor Loudon (garden variety Australian Zionist and "classical liberal") to debate Haz. Somehow, Haz mopped up the floor with them, which to be fair wasn't too hard when both Tim and Loudon were claiming that Joe Sims of the CPUSA has more influence on American politics than AIPAC.

Discourse in the US is so fucked.

I like the pride flag with the chevron and circle more.

I read one of Neal Stephenson's more recent works, I forget which, in it he talks about a region near Washington State and the surrounding area which was called Ameristan. In it you need to wear clothing of one material, women need to cover themselves, etc. The people lived in an evangelical theocratic state which interpreted the Bible literally.

One interesting point was the interpretation of 'rocks' to be a coded message for 'bullets'. The idea was that 'bullets' would not have been understood in antiquity, in the contemporary era it could be understood as such and was awfully convenient for USians who fetishize firearms.

Seeing this kinda stuff makes me think Ameristan is not too far off.