I think what's kind of fractally offensive about this guy is that he steals not just ideas but specific words from other people without really understanding them Like he's trying to show how Extremely Online he is by using this Simpsons reference but he's using it wrong https://twitter.com/Aaron4KS37/status/1304532666470092803 …
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"Saying the quiet part loud" means when someone else accidentally admits what's harmful or offensive about their own position You attacking them or calling them out isn't "saying the quiet part loud", come on
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Anyway obviously I agree with his stated position that the Global War on Terror is bullshit but also so the fuck what What's he gonna do about it as a state rep, that justifies ignoring his monstrous personal record Etc, etc
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I mean it's a really really consistent and observable pattern for shitty people with a "leftist" brand to emphasize war and foreign policy, to show off how globally intersectional they are, but also because those are issues they conveniently can claim no complicity in
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It is pretty slick. Being a member of a deep legislative minority is an added bonus.
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I mean so in the end what - he's running for office so that more people will read his twitter hot takes?
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Plus "so we could take the oil" is such a reductive and annoying framing of what was a vast imperial project with a variety of conflicting and ominous endpoints, all of which failed.
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I mean, if it was to take the oil, we failed to actually take any of it
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Replying to @arthur_affect
You might as well argue something more fun; that we were trying to disrupt the middle eastern petroleum economy to drive UP prices so that we could bring domestic shale oil online. I mean, that's not it, but it's more interesting.
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