somebody is going to be able to do a great cultural history of a very thin slice of American 2020 life by just reading people's Twitter fantasies about Pete Buttigieg.
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simultaneously their manager, their more successful contemporary, the gay kid they bullied at school, *and* a CIA agent, also declared a 'sociopath' based on policy disagreements and a calm affect and their parents liking him
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I don't even like the man or his policies, it would just be nice if the left wasn't determined to render itself fucking insane.
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Twitter is a hothouse and has little impact on American politics except as through the journalists, like your fine self, who are here in numbers and treat it as a window into some kind of political reality
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I would like to think so, but I also saw the Labour Party in the UK absolutely destroy itself over similar shit.
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I'm not saying it's unreal, but that it's a feedback loop amplified by journalism, which does reach broader audiences, and gives undue agency to the Very Online
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Also the Democratic Party destroyed itself a dozen elections ago and that which is dead cannot die
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that was also true of Labour in the late 70s/early 80s!
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Then Biden stole Kinnock's speech and the curse passed onto us
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are you saying that Biden *didn't* grow up the son of poor Welsh coal miners?
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