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2 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Hey guys, I'm a lib now FYI
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Also, I'm a woman now. My name is Paulina the lib.

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3 Dec
There are good people, not shills, making the case that Loeffler and Purdue must win. The biggest problem they face, however, is that the strongest case against the GOP is being made by the GOP 1/
Republicans have and continue to discuss amnesty. Republicans just unanimously consented to yet another immigration giveaway that will undermine the job security and wages of Americans. Republicans responded to rioting with police reform and criminal justice reform 2/
Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, shot down talk of a stimulus package, though 70%+ Americans, including most Republicans, and especially lower-income Republican voters, said they approved of the proposed relief bill 3/
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3 Dec
Both parties are beholden to lobbies. But Democrats at least lie about it and attempt to bribe their voters with stuff like debt relief and other gibs. Dems use power more effectively 1/
The GOP 1) attempts to brainwash people to support policies that hurt them (corporate tax cuts, more immigration, cuts to social programs) 2) praises managerial capitalism 3) refuses to use government to help their voters but uses it to do the bidding of their donors 2/
There is no greater obstacle toward a better country than the GOP. The only reason Dems get what they want and always win at the end of the day is because the GOP offers the illusion of opposition 3/
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29 Nov
The problem with conservatism: Putting university endowments on the hook for student loan debt would not only offer a solution to an issue for younger voters, but it would inevitably result in the closer of many universities which conservatives claim to hate 1/
Universities, conservatives complain, are the locus of critical race and gender theory, of antifa and BLM, of the overproduction of woke "elites." Conservatives, who always claim to be about the culture war, have a stone in front of them capable of knocking out several birds 2/
But their adherence to free market dogma, to libertarian principles, to broke "business conservatism" is like a gag reflex that prevents them from drinking the right stuff at the right moment. So they ironically take the side of the universities in this fight 3/
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29 Nov
Weird, I don't see Ivanka Trump or Jared Kushner's names on this list of people who asked Trump to concede🤔
There is no reason to exclude them but to cope or deny. Which highlights a problem: We think it's just the people around Trump, not in his inner circle, who are the poison pills.
"Because they said Republicans," yes, hilarious then that two Democrats are the most influential people in the administration.

This is a self-own.
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28 Nov
Consider: What prevents us from being able to "deal with it" is conservatism. Hate affluent liberal citadels all you want, it is conservatism that places the GDP on a pedestal and, in the name of the free market or something, refuses to assail these citadels where it hurts 1/
Want to own the libs? Aggressively attack the practice of global labor arbitrage, abolish visa workers programs, raise taxes on liberal plutocrats, i.e., do exactly the opposite of what conservatism says you should do 2/
Trump hasn't been good at this at all, see constant GDP/stock market tweets, but you can argue that at least he occasionally if unwittingly pointed in the right direction, but it will ultimately be on us to consciously, deliberately separate from conservatism 3/
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28 Nov
Milovan followed James Burnham's method from the left and it shows in his analysis of communism (really just political bureaucracy) not as a theory but as a system. He is not concerned with formal principles but real power structures 1/
I think the historic left is better at this than the right/conservatives due to the left generally being more associated with materialism and the right generally looking to the transcendent 2/
As a result the left generally has a better pathology of power than the right, which instead tends to debate formal principles and theories 3/
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