You've moved your goalposts. It WAS whether someone uses violence as a tool. Of COURSE Trump does. To suggest he doesn't is naive at best.
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emptywheel Retweeted Master Guns 🇺🇸
Fine. Then retract this tweet lecturing me about what I should do. *Especially* since you've proven unaware of how Trump wields violence himself.https://twitter.com/MasterGuns8654/status/995838623751852032 …
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A compromise—l’ll look into Trump more closely, and you study up on al-Sadr. Talk soon.
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Replying to @MasterGuns8654
I have not exhibited ignorance about Sadr. You, on the other hand, are apologizing for Trump's violence. So, no deal.
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Replying to @MasterGuns8654
The two first tweets of this thread among others. Or perhaps you weren't apologizing as much as betraying ignorance. I'm agnostic which it is. Again, fix the stuff you can affect here before lecturing Iraqis.
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Lecturing the Iraqis? I’m not doing that. Actually if al-Sadr moves them away from Iran’s sphere of influence, it’s a net gain. Trust me, I KNOW I can’t lecture Iraqis.
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OK. Fine. Then please stop lecturing me. America has violence to stop--abroad for decades--and at home, increasingly incited as a tool of power by Trump. If you care about populist violence please work to change the latter.
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You’re giving him too much credit. In the next breath he’s incompetent. You’re the one moving the goal posts.
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He is incompetent at governance. He's an expert at sowing fears and hatreds. Those are different skills.
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