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@mtaibbi

Author of GRIFTOPIA, THE DIVIDE, THE BUSINESS SECRETS OF DRUG DEALING, and HATE INC. Podcast, Useful Idiots:

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Liittynyt toukokuu 2009
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  1. 3 tuntia sitten

    In sum, anyone who calls people “fascist” or “right wing” without pointing to right wing beliefs, or accuses people of being in league with murderous dictators just for being antiwar or observing that regime change is a fucking stupid policy, is a censorious, witch-hunting twat.

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  2. 3 tuntia sitten

    This scam - using endless moral panics to keep people from directing anger at the right targets - is idiotic and shouldn’t work, but does. One way they keep it going is by calling anyone who doesn’t salute when they send their bullshit up the flagpole “right wing.” It’s a joke.

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  3. 3 tuntia sitten

    This endless succession of news/Twitter panics is pure BS, designed to keep the population usefully obsessed with nonsense while billionaires double their wealth in two years and private equity vultures use Fed bailout programs to help smash records for takeover deals.

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  4. 3 tuntia sitten

    I’m not particularly a leftist but I agree with people like Bernie Sanders, that politicians have to choose between donors and people, and until Democrats stop living off money from Goldman, Northrop, KKR, and Pfizer, we’ll get inherently regressive politics.

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  5. 3 tuntia sitten

    The irony is my big complaint with Democrats is their embrace of bullshit woke fads and Twitter panics is a neoliberal/right-wing con, giving cover to avoid delivering on real left goals like M4A, universal child care, cutting defense spending, attacking income inequality, etc.

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  6. 4 tuntia sitten

    The ACLU of 15 years ago would have been troubled by YouTube removing Senate testimony about Ivermectin, and mortified by government agencies advising platforms on what speech to ban. Way to make my point, that arguing against a ban was not only called support, but right wing.

    Vastauksena käyttäjälle @mtaibbi
    Show me one “boring liberal” article from 15 years ago that is even remotely close to this.
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  7. 5 tuntia sitten

    Can you point to even one instance of me “defending” Putin? Once, the left knew it was insane and vicious to call someone a “Saddam-lover” for, say, being against the Iraq war. Now if I’m not hopping in bed with Bill Kristol and calling for WWIII I’m a Putin-lover. Smh

    Vastauksena käyttäjälle @mtaibbi
    Your incessant defense of Putin. That’s pretty damn right wing in todays environment,
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  8. 6 tuntia sitten

    Pretty much down the line I’m what would have been considered boringly liberal 15 years ago. I don’t change my views based on Twitter’s current fixations, which I’m told means I’m right-wing now, even though no one can point to an actual example of a right-wing opinion I hold.

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    If you were to be pushed, , how would you categorize yourself?
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  9. 11 tuntia sitten

    No, not a fan of any of the major brands.

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    Does this mean you like left wing autocracies?
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  10. 11 tuntia sitten

    Sure - the only problem being we seem to insist on our own leaders not being subject to those courts, which to me makes them illegitimate.

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    Do you think international courts can and should pass judgment on leaders who are criminally responsible for international crimes?
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  11. 11 tuntia sitten

    This is the whole point - “regime change” can’t work unless the local population supports it, and they virtually never do.

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    What about the far deeper problem, seen in both Canada and Russia, left and right, of a majority of people demanding an illiberal government without constitutional restraint? Once the public gets that mindset in their heads, you must choose between liberalism and democracy.
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  12. 12 tuntia sitten

    “He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech…”

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    “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” — George Orwell, 1984
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  13. 12 tuntia sitten

    I don’t believe in supporting right-wing autocracies - I believe in denying them support, and wish we would do so more (see Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., etc). I just don’t think we have the right to decide another country’s leaders, and these policies almost always fail anyway.

    Vastauksena käyttäjille @clever_name_578 ja @mtaibbi
    Taibbi takes the position that supporting right wing dictators rather than working to remove them isn't supporting the right wing. I pointed out 3 examples where doing nothing in fact supported the right wing. So question: Do we do nothing about evil fascists?
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  14. 12 tuntia sitten

    Free-speechers!

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  15. 17 tuntia sitten

    Re Pinochet - you realize "regime change" put him in power, not the other way around?

    Vastauksena käyttäjälle @mtaibbi
    Being against regime change in 1939 Germany was certainly right wing. And against regime change for Augusto Pinochet or Mussolini. What a stupid tweet
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  16. 17 tuntia sitten

    Is Sex Our Era's "Communist Threat"?

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  17. 6. huhtik.

    Just to be clear - being against regime change is right wing?

    Vastauksena käyttäjille @copleyjohn3, @MatScot8 ja @mtaibbi
    He doesn't have to carry anyone's water. Just be accurate. But Matt is playing to his generally right of center gullible sub stack audience.
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  18. 5. huhtik.

    You’re right. Which is why it’s a mistake to argue against it on the grounds that it’s violence.

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    You don’t have to think that Mike Pence speeches are violence to give your school a hard time for paying him to speak
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  19. 5. huhtik.

    Some University of Virginia faculty members signed a letter in support of free speech, decrying the idea that letting Mike Pence speak is “violence.” Pence’s speeches are more like sedation than violence…

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    I didn’t think the discourse could get any dumber than “everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi.” But then “everyone who disagrees with me is a groomer” entered the chat. The two dominant parties in this country continue with their race to rock bottom.

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