This entire thread is very accurate and worth reading but this point in particular stands out to me. The utter bafflement by the American media complex at why the public isn't culturally realigning in favor of Trump as predicted. The answer is because of Twitter! They think Twitter is real life!
The ride-or die argument for Platner is "undoing the historical wrongs of the 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primaries".
The Senate is a would-be-nice.
Settling the score is essential.
It's going to be 2016 until everyone who voted in 2016 is dead.
A lot of people really want this to break down on a left/moderate or old/young axis but it really doesn't, it's ultimately a cosmopolitan/herrenvolk one because the people most aggressively defending him are doing so from the implied understanding that the "soul of America" emanates from white men
I really like how my entire feed is full of smart people rightfully dunking on this slop and their posts are collectively getting maybe 1/10th the engagement as the op. Nothing concerning about that at all.
Everyone shut the fck up FF7R 3 got announced
you have to understand that shitty Ezra Klein take in this context too; he was attempting to climb onboard what he believed to be a cultural bandwagon.
Good thread
Gonna be a normal one on here tonight isnt it.
the thing about the Olde Twitter culture whereby leftism equals being a belligerent dickhead, and the bigger a belligerent dickhead you are the more radical your leftism, is that invariably you get guys who just like saying slurs and reverse engineer "left" excuses for doing it
it's because they think that they are supposed to receive awards for what they view as dissident behavior