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wildcat09

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  1. I know I’m a little late to the party, but I think the elimination of Pepfar alone can and will ultimately be viewed as similar to the Holodomor. Part of Rex is beginning to realize that we’ve all been right about how bad this all is and another part of him is rebelling against that and lashing out. He doesn’t have the strength to join with liberals though, so he’ll ultimately go full Nazi and blame it all on the left.
  2. I don’t mind certain Dems using him as a medium. I think Pete could do it. Bernie could too, though I don’t trust him not to mostly bash Dems which ultimately isn’t helpful. But most Dem officials Rogan would be openly hostile to and they wouldn’t know what to do with that.
  3. Rogan has literally been personal friends with Alex Jones for decades.
  4. Bari Weiss and Bret Weinstein call themselves liberal. When Joe says he's for shit like universal healthcare he's lying. He's never in his life lifted a pinky to advance that cause. He just knows that pretending to break from the right on a few issues is useful. Weed is the only issue where he genuinely disagrees with the mainstream Republican party and he doesn't even really care if they legalize it because he knows they'll never arrest him for possession.
  5. Rogan has never been progressive, get the fuck out of here with that nonsense. He was a libertarian, which means he likes weed, and he didn't used to have a problem with gay people because he was around Hollywood folks all the time. He's been firmly right-wing though for the last 5+ years though, which tracks the shifting politics of most libertarians, because they don't actually care about liberty for anyone but themselves and they're stupid enough to fall for a thousand different and often contradictory conspiracy theories.
  6. I like how exactly the posters you'd expect to do this are pretending that everything we know we also knew in March/April 2020.
  7. I wonder what percentage of that student body walks around with calipers in their pocket. You know it's not 0.
  8. The problem is many of those people all genuinely believe we're very near the end of days and that we don't need to worry about preserving anything for the future.
  9. Ruben would've been my pick before he got elected and immediately decided he wanted to be the next Synema. Arizona can't be trusted.
  10. Ossoff is good, which makes him joining the Dems crypto-friendly group such a fucking disappointment. There are some issues it's fine to break from the party line on. But the crypto bill he just voted for isn't one of them.
  11. Booker followed up his impressive (sort of) filibuster, in which he acknowledged that he'd been inadequate in opposing the rise of Trumpism, by returning to behaving just like he's always behaved. If anything, that revealed the hollowness that's at the core of so many of our current Democratic officials. They think the one-time stunt is all that's needed and can't even begin to understand how just doing the stunt one time and then going back to business as usual just makes them look worse.
  12. Obviously you forgot to read that part of the Constitution that says people only have rights during business hours.
  13. It’s funny how the libertarians are always basically wind-up toys with no self discipline.
  14. Ryan Cooper and David Dayen at The American Prospect are pretty good, as are the crew at Liberal Currents (Samantha Hancox-Li and Paul Crider primarily). Also some of the better left-of-center BlueSky guys recently started a podcast called Normal Men that's mostly pretty good political/cultural talk from a progressive viewpoint, though it's still new and mostly more punditry than wonky stuff. Ezra Klein isn't horrible, but he's kind of dumb in ways he will never recognize because his job depends on him not recognizing it.
  15. It's such a burden being right all the time.
  16. They couldn't even get one token black student. Impressive.
  17. If they made a dozen beekeeper movies where he just brutally murders new scammers in each one I'd see every single one of those in theaters.
  18. It's like I'm arguing with Grok.
  19. Did you eat paint chips as a kid or something?
  20. By definition people won't hear a message from non-celebrities. What the fuck is Joe Rogan if he's not a celebrity?
  21. A lot of those "lost souls" will change their minds because their minds are malleable and if the political winds shift they will. To the extent Dems should be trying to appeal directly to young men, they probably shouldn't even be using candidates to do so, but organizing with, e.g. progressive professional athletes and other celebrities who can effectively talk shit about Republicans and tell these young men to stop being so soft. A little bit of Jordan Peterson "clean your room" shit coming from a progressive guy like Alan Ritchson will be a lot more successful than average politicians going on long-form podcasts.
  22. Hey, you guys know that South Park episode where they all ignore Cartman and because nobody will respond to him Cartman thinks he died?
  23. Then maybe stop trying man.
  24. The thing about this is that the way to stop talking about trans issues as national political issues is to make a righteous stand when asked about trans issues. E.g. if Jake Tapper is interviewing a candidate and trying to goad them into throwing trans people under the bus, the response isn't to tepidly try to change the topic, but to attack Jake for thinking trans folks don't deserve the same rights as everyone else and that denying them their basic rights is more important than [whatever]. Most if not all GOP culture war bullshit depends quite a bit on the complicity of mainstream media types who launder GOP culture war bullshit (that jibes with their own beliefs more than they'd like to publicly admit) as views of "ordinary Americans."
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