most deep-seated political positions arise from vestigial "home team" partisanship that, at base, is no more/less rational than rooting for the Baltimore Ravens or Dallas Cowboys. even subsequent shifts to the "alt-right" or "wokecialism" or "brocialism" have their roots in this
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and much of the cooler, "aesthetic kid" stuff is just your standard youth (or, in our age of arrested development, late thirtysomething) reaction to seeming parental uncoolness, since our elders long since became true single-issue voters in humphrey bogart-esque highwater dockers
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my politics? you'll never know, aside from the fact that i'm a cradle-catholic "ethnic" kid from the far, far corner of southwestern Pennsylvania. but that should tell you all you need to know about why i'm so skeptical of everything and everyone.pic.twitter.com/oIGOrctqLM
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but let me tell you, you're not gonna get a $100,000/month political podcast with this line of thinking, nope. "everybody's got an angle" and "they're all lying to you" are really what i mean when i say "the kids are doing the work," you see.
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