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@mtaibbi

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

New Jersey, USA
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.

    Kumoa
  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.

    Kumoa
  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.

    Kumoa
  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.

    Kumoa
  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.

    Kumoa
  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.

    Kumoa
  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

    Kumoa
  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.

    Kumoa
  9. 11 tuntia sitten

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

    Kumoa
  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.

    Kumoa
  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.

    Kumoa
  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…”

    Kumoa
  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.

    Kumoa
  14. 12 tuntia sitten
    Kumoa
  15. 17 tuntia sitten

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

    Kumoa
  16. 17 tuntia sitten
    Kumoa
  17. 6. huhtik.

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

    Kumoa
  18. 5. huhtik.

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

    Kumoa
  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…

    Kumoa
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    5. huhtik.

    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.

    Kumoa

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