The Aaron Coleman fiasco is a pretty great demonstration of how the whole Dirtbag Left thing is itself incredibly shallow affective identity politics, even as they claim to hate identity politics The people who had his back were on his side *because* he was an Internet troll
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Trumpian in that way, but also in a sort of 'contrarian for its own sake' way which is most commonly associated with being about 10 years old. It seems like Coleman's defenders enjoy casting themselves in their own minds as 'rebels' (for a ??? cause...)
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I've often wondered what would happen if Trump stayed the same but stopped the lying. Setting aside the obvious joke that he'd be mute, if he simply said "Yeah, I'm here to profit for myself, I frankly don't care about your sick grandma, and...
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my main problem with Corey Booker is that he's black and I think most Americans would agree with me that's a problem" what would be the effect on the voters who say he "tells it like it is"... but also kinda know that he doesn't?
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I give him a year before he goes full alt-right
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You're an optimist. If he loses, it'll be before the end of *this* year. If he wins, it'll be shortly after he's sworn in.
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There is a streak of racism and misogyny a mile wide in the ranks of the bros. A good number of them are no better than the worst of the Bolsheviks, let them anywhere near power, and they would quickly become mass murderers.
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The worst part of this is that it's started to make me believe in horseshoe theory.
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I don't think this is an example of what people mean when they say that, that "going too far left" makes you become "far right" It's really just a demonstration that for a lot of people - maybe most people - your "policy preferences" are a label that can change at a whim
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