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Sep 6, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read Read on X
The idea that this stuff will all go away if Biden wins does seem a bit naive to me. In fact people may take away the lesson that it's a winning form of politics and the basis for a durable political coalition (insert Trump wrong gif).

It's not like this is just some emotional outlet or form of catharsis for people angry about Trump. There is an entire incentive structure that's become embedded into institutions, from management on down. Those incentives don't just go away.
And if you look at the protests and riots, they are largely happening in the most liberal cities under the most liberal leadership. Liberal white males. Sounds like a Biden administration to me.
It's almost as if the driving force is a rebelliousness against insufficient liberal leadership more than anything else. Sort of like an intra-liberal familial dispute.
And what does a university professor who said a Chinese word that sounds like a bad word in English even have to do with Trump? And so on.

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Jan 3, 2023
It's rather pathetic to watch Democrats and leftists gloating about the fact that the Republican Party seems to still allow for a tiny amount of dissent and debate while their own party is an absolute authoritarian borg that demands lockstep allegiance from its members.
"Ha ha their party has a populist faction that is effective at challenging establishment leadership and extracting concessions. What losers! Pass the popcorn amirite?"
This is mostly the product of educated elites simply having no idea or conception of what democratic government even looks like any more
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Dec 7, 2022
Just to catch everyone up, a former FBI official who was deeply involved in Russiagate and who was then planted at Twitter was discovered to have combed through the Twitter Files, without telling Elon Musk, before they were released to @mtaibbi and @bariweiss. Can't make this up.
According to Musk, he didn't become aware of this until Sunday, after the files were made public. The official, James Baker, was then fired by Musk.
As evidenced from this exchange with @Cernovich from April, Musk was at least at one point made aware of Baker and his background.
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The current liberal disinfo campaign is to make you think that talking about immigration and its demographic impact on the electorate — something liberals have enthusiastically done for decades — is now an off-limits conspiracy theory & anyone who engages in it should be censored
They are trying to make you think that doing this is engaging in something called "The Great Replacement Theory" so that they can tar their political opponents as extremists who spread racist conspiracy theories and disinformation.
As usual, the point of this is to spread their own disinformation in order to censor media and speech they don't like.
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The momentum behind student debt cancellation is a good example of how the Left isn't designed to shift power to the working class. It's designed to shift the Democratic Party toward the interests of the educated professional class by using the veneer of populism and radicalism.
There are many kinds of debt and many forms of economic hardship. Are we to believe that the highly-educated, professional-class-dominated Left chose student debt randomly out of a hat? Is it a coincidence that this may end up being its only tangible policy success?
It's a testament to what can be accomplished by a highly organized group of elites whose main skillset is media and marketing.
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Jun 19, 2021
After 2016, the Left traded in its populism in exchange for getting to be the well-funded, progressive NGO-Media-Activist arm of the Democratic Party. "Leftism" and "Socialism" became the updated branding of this elite-driven, big-money-funded liberal politics & media apparatus.
The rise of AOC and The Squad were instrumental in forging this new political synthesis.
For a brief moment in 2016, Left populism was a reaction against the Democratic Party's elite culture war and identity politics. Not only was that critique snuffed out, but culture war actually became the binding glue of this new synthesis.
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If you could shoplift a podcast subscription online Leftists would change their tunes real quick
I've never seen the standing desk Left get so mad at a tweet. The reason they get so mad when you criticize their lifestyle-brand-as-politics is because it's literally the only thing differentiating them from their MSNBC watching parents.
Agree with Dad on everything, but you also hate Dad? Have I got a fantasy online universe for you.
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