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Michael Tracey
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I just don't believe that anyone is actually offended by this. They're faking
I think professional/creative class Dem-allied observers are "offended" on some level, but it's highly intertwined with fakery. They're performatively offended on behalf of people who aren't themselves offended. Trump supporters are not offended in the slightest, that's 100% fake
Perhaps coastal managerial class 20-and-30-somethings on Twitter don't realize that their parochial cultural sensibilities are not shared by the rest of the country. I wonder if that impedes them from properly comprehending the political landscape in the USA. Hmm, just a theory
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Michael Tracey
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The term "concentration camp" obviously evokes parallels to the Holocaust and if that's not what you're intending to do, simply pick another term. See? Easy
Example of how you can discuss contemporary problems without lapsing into ridiculously inflammatory hyperbole that recalls the most catastrophic era in human history
But if you want to "cancel" Bernie for declining to posit that 2019 America is meaningfully comparable to 1939 Germany, go ahead I guess
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Michael Tracey
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Alternate Trump re-election slogan: "My only major legislative accomplishment was Paul Ryan's tax cut"
Another one: "I pledge another four years of sweeping directives and grand proclamations that never actually amount to anything other than boisterous tweets"
And finally: "Keep America Great by keeping America obsequiously wedded to Saudi Arabia and Israel"
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Michael Tracey
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Kids are being conditioned to expect that their private affairs will be surveilled and held against them -- by universities, parents, future employers... everyone. That's ultimately more troubling than anything related to this specific incident
Recently I heard some parents describe the lengths they go to monitor their teen's private communications, without the teen's knowledge. All texts, social media, etc. -- the parents had surreptitious access to. They even track the teen's precise locational movements. It's nuts
The US has never been safer, but parents have seemingly never been more paranoid about surveilling every aspect of their kids' lives under the guise of "safety" -- when there's really no threat to speak of. The same invasive, privacy-destroying mindset afflicts elite institutions
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