It says a lot of really bad things about where our society is that as many people flocked to taking the asshole's side in this tiny KS state legislature race that they did This wasn't about power or policy, this was identity politics - they identify with this kid
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They are EAGER to pull the lever on this imaginary trolley problem they just invented There was no way getting Frownfelter out of seat #37 in the KS state house would affect KS abortion rights or Medicaid or whatever BUT WHAT IF IT DID
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It's like those wackjobs who want you to imagine a bomb about to go off and the only password to defuse it is saying a racial slur "What if the only way to achieve Medicare for All was to forgive a revenge porn creep What if that was our ONLY HOPE"
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@gwensnyderPHL talks a lot about this There's a small but committed group of influencers whose whole job is to pipeline angry young white men on the Left to the Right via this resentment of "woke idpol" "They're gonna MeToo EVERY socialist candidate, just you wait"Show this thread -
It's fucking terrifying Ask yourself what kind of community you're building for yourself by enshrining the principle that interpersonal cruelty and violence isn't IMPORTANT compared to REAL POLITICS
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Somebody finally said it out loud.
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it's not really a small group. it's widespread, from chapo to the hill's rising to the intercept to the jimmy dore show to the entire intellectual dark web and its parent, the intellectual diversity movement.pic.twitter.com/yR6L4uF47T
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