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wildcat09

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  1. Master fuckin negotiator at work here.
  2. There’s a type of young person who is raised by conservatives and because they’re young and natural contrarians adopt a leftist affect to rebel against their parents. But if you look at their politics, 99% of it is hating liberals, because they’re actually conservatives who just want to pretend they’re somehow different from their parents. So they’ll say they won’t vote Dem because Biden didn’t cancel student loans (ignoring that even with SCOTUS interference he still cancelled a ton), but the real reason they voted Trump is that they’re conservatives.
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    Hah, he’s out here just voluntarily dropping “ephebophilia.”
  4. Fuck, at the very least he could explain what's actually different about what he believes today. The grand sum of all he's done to express contrition is basically to say "I'm not that extreme anymore."
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    LBGTQ

    It's how you know he's a true blue capital-L Libertarian.
  6. Responding "suck my dick" to a Richard Hanania invite isn't running away.
  7. It will never go away. However, we were much better off when they were too scared to attempt to put their deepest desires into political effect. I don't care whether we persuade these people to not be white supremacists or christian nationalists. That kind of persuasion can only be effected on a very small scale, at the personal level. We can't deradicalize a massive cult. But we can scare them back into their mom's basements if we start treating these people like they're all deranged skinhead morons again. Nazis want people to see them as an intellectual force. We should want people to see them as Dewey Crowe.
  8. More often than not, when someone responds online to a post with "lulz no" it's to express disagreement. Re-reading it though, I can see how you were just answering the question.
  9. Burnt, is it seriously your contention that fans of the TLOU games were not all aware that Ellie was gay?
  10. The goal is to put certain ideas into the category of "if you utter these in public everyone will hate you, you will have no friends or job prospects, and people might physically assault you." Nazi shit was in that category between 1941 and 2015. Nobody serious thought it was a good idea to treat their ideas seriously, and anyone who thought it was a good idea to treat their ideas seriously was considered unserious and maybe a nazi. That worked pretty fucking well for a long time and it only stopped working because respected public figures and institutions began treating them and their ideas seriously. We need to get back to treating these people as beneath contempt.
  11. It's getting harder and harder to resolve the tensions between my moral and philosophical support for democracy with my very low opinion of the American electorate.
  12. Mainstream pundits have been engaging with nazis for fucking years now. What has happened to the public perception and status of nazis in that time?
  13. That's not Hanania's podcast. People left of the far-right have to use their fucking brains about this shit. There's some nuance for who someone should engage with, depending on their platform, the topics at hand, and your ability to speak to them and their audience. If you are Pete Buttigieg or Bernie Sanders, you can go on Joe Rogan. But if you're fucking Dr. Sanjay Gupta trying to promote vaccines, not prepared for a hostile debate and thinking you're going to get an honest interview, stay the fuck home. But there's one hard-and-fast-rule and that's this: Don't debate nazis. Don't do public appearances with nazis. In fact, just don't talk to nazis. Richard Hanania is a nazi, no matter that he pretends otherwise now. He's never actually disavowed anything he used to say or believe, he just thinks it's more beneficial for him personally and his cause if the nazi shit seems more intelligent and sophisticated. That is his project. When you speak with him to talk politics and sell your political book, you're legitimating him as an acceptable public intellectual figure. You're legitimating his ideas as acceptable public ideas. You're aiding his project.
  14. Are you...are you saying that fans of TLOU video games were not all aware that Ellie is gay?
  15. Bourbon on a Tuesday afternoon?
  16. This might be the perfect Helo post. Thank you for this.
  17. Yeah, I haven't read it but my understanding from some reviews is "ok they've got a pamphlet with two pretty good ideas buoyed by too much focus on California-specific shit that they really padded out to try to make it into a real book." Derek Thompson also guested on Richard Hanania's podcast and can go gargle balls.
  18. Ezra Klein has the affect of an earnest intellectual but doesn’t actually do nearly as good of a job thinking stuff through as he thinks he does. He’s also fucking infinitely gullible when it comes to anything the “good” republicans (those who pretend like they care about more than hurting immigrants and forcing women back into the kitchens) say.
  19. Also uh, the game’s fan base shouldn’t be surprised about Ellie being gay?
  20. Right. Nobody serious and honest believes there’s any real debate here. Sure, someone who is full of shit can come up with a “water isn’t actually wet” type of legal argument, but we shouldn’t treat it as anything other than the bullshit it is.
  21. Only clowns believe in the germ theory of disease.
  22. Cam Whitmore looks legitimately mad that he has to be there.
  23. Gretch is pretty clearly taking a dive.
  24. Ok, how about you stop speaking abstractly in complaints about "identity politics" and specify what you mean. What "identity politics" issues did Harris foreground in her campaign? Or is the problem as you see it that her identity was the political problem?
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