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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He was an awful, horrible candidate in every respect but the people flocking to his side thought a lot of the ways he was horrible were "based" and made up for the other ways he was horrible ("He's abusive to women but he's also abusive to Establishment Dems!")
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Why do you keep saying was? Is he out of the running?
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No, he missed the deadline to withdraw so this is still going until November I guess
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Replying to @arthur_affect @DiscordianKitty
It seems like most of the people defending him have either changed their minds or awkwardly fallen silent though
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