Thread by @17cShyteposter

Not to shit on Yang—well actually, yes, to shit on Yang, but the problem runs much deeper—but displays like this feel like an increasingly naked confession that our elites have earned so little trust that the only way they can steal it from you is by crying in your face

I mean in this particular case even neolib policy wonks can't make "the statistical case for why everyone should have their guns taken from them," everyone's gut understands the truth of the matter

So what are you left with? Literally crying, abloohoohoo

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Of course the exact same tactic is deployed to explain why we must accept infinity "refugees"

Will they make your nation better? No, everyone gets this, it's comically absurd to believe otherwise. So your intellect must be bypassed

"But the little girl is crying, abloohoohoo"

"Do you enjoy your nation as it is? Think it's a good place? Yes, but did you consider that the tens of millions of people your children will be criminally brutalized by and also forced to financially subsidize are CRYING? Ever thought about that?"

"Don't you get it? The Russians changed the vote, babies are in CAGES, look at them!!"

There's no dignity left to this culture, no case for why what's being done to you is good for you, all that's left is "They're crying, + I'm crying for them, now do what I say, or abloohoohoo"

Crying is a means of emotional manipulation, that's what it evolved to do. When your baby or toddler cries at you, that's healthy

But when your elites cry in your face—saying "Don't hurt me, please do what I want instead"—that is the sign they have nothing left to give you.