Yes, and there is no contradiction there. He was saying Trump's victory, though real -- i.e., he got the most votes in the key EC states -- was achieved due in part to interference from Russia. He wasn't questioning whether Trump actually got the most votes
It's like if someone argued a candidate won because of "dark money" influence, or disinformation by trolls (whether foreign or domestic). It isn't questioning IF someone won. It's questioning the forces that caused that to happen. That's different than the Q loons and Trumpkins
So it Trumpkins said, yeah our guy lost but only bc the liberal media wouldn't give him honest coverage, blah blah blah, I would disagree but that's at least admitting a fact about the outcome. THAT is equal to what the left or Dems said after 16 re: Russia, troll farms, etc
...whereas right now the Trump folks simply refuse to believe their guy lost at all. I mean come on, Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are saying he won CA FFS, and now he says the R Senators who lost only lost bc of fraud too. This is batshit lunacy
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1/ However aggravating you find so-called wokeness to be, deliberate anti-wokeness is many orders of magnitude worse. Bc it almost always serves to rationalize inequity, injustice, and the demonizing of marginalized peoples, not just the style or manner of protest activity...
2/ Very few critics of those they call social justice warriors or the woke left (or whatever) are people who also spend time challenging systemic racism & other forms of injustice, but merely opt for different tactics. More often they deny the very existence of systemic racism...
3/ It's sort of like the loudest critics of cancel culture. Most are not people who have a history of challenging racism, sexism, transphobia, etc but merely think it should be done in a different way. They are mostly people who rarely ever challenge or care about those things...
1/12 The absurd desire some liberals & progressives have to reach out to Trump's base (even those who believe the Q shit or think COVID's a hoax) stems from 1 of 3 things: either an intellectual arrogance that says we're so smart we can explain facts to folks & they'll change...
2/12 Or (for the more lefty types) a naive romanticization of 'salt of the earth' white people (especially those deemed working class), whom we still view in Steinbeckian terms, and who we think can be made to see their 'real enemies' are the millionehhhs and the billionehhhs...
3/12 Or an emotional neediness to be liked by everyone and have everyone get along because we don't like conflict. Notice the right doesn't play this game: they just steamroll folks. They deploy power. We fear it, because it seems mean or undemocratic or something...
1/ White conservatives like to tell Black folks to "stop wallowing in victimhood" by talking about racism. But they literally marinate in grievance and a sense of their own victimhood as a matter of daily routine. Let's count all the ways they feel victimized shall we? ...
2/ Even before Trump they insisted they were the victims of taxes, secular humanists, feminism, "radical Islam," political correctness, affirmative action, welfare cheats, immigrants taking their jobs, government regulations, auto emissions laws, militant LGBTQ activists...
3/ ...a ban on organized school prayer, the Endangered Species Act, the liberal media, Hollywood liberals, Obamacare, a ban on assault weapons, and background checks for gun purchases, rampant crime (even though it's fallen by more than 1/2 since the early 90s)...
1/ If u wouldn't spend time/energy reaching out to folk who believe Pizzagate BS or that the DNC killed Seth Rich or Obama isn't American, why would you spend time/energy reaching out to those who think Trump 'won in a landslide' but the election was stolen? All are irrational...
2/ Literally every second you waste trying to bring these people to the light of reason is a second you could be spending organizing those who already lean progressive, or at least comprise the current anti-Trump coalition into more progressive formations...
3/ I will never understand the irrational faith in the power of pure reason so common among typical liberals. The idea that if we just show people the facts, the data, or put together the right class analysis, they'll switch and vote their "self interest"...
1/ Grifter @SidneyPowell1 and her Q-addled fan base apparently think that just bc you file a lawsuit w/affidavits from people, that constitutes "evidence" sufficient to invalidate the votes of millions. It doesn't. People can say anything in an affidavit for a court filing...
2/ Punishment for this kind of perjury is mild and not likely anyway, plus in prior such examples already discussed in court in MI and PA, the court found the affidavit claims to be not credible, based on misunderstanding, etc., even if not deliberately deceptive...
3/ Lots of these GOP "poll watchers" skipped the training they were supposed to get first, so they didn't understand the process and how it works...as such they thought things they witnessed that were exactly proper were actually pernicious. Because they're gullible idiots...
1/ The SCOTUS decision in favor of the "religious freedom" to gather in large groups despite the pandemic is part of a larger effort to elevate so called religious liberty above all other freedoms, but not in the way most agree with...
2/ Most everyone would agree that people's right to worship as they see fit should be protected, to believe as they wish, free from persecution, etc. That is not what this is, or what other religious liberty cases are about...
3/ These cases are about elevating the rights of persons claiming to be acting on the basis of religious belief, to engage in activity that injures others, without consequence. So here it means the right to worship in large groups even if it endangers public health...