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23 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"Twitter isn't real life," quips the conservative intellectual living in a reality that had once only existed in virtual spaces like Tumblr
One side is visionary, the other is perpetually smug and confident in its supremacy although it has literally nothing to show for that
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There are conservatives with views indistinguishable from those held by Tumblr people a few years ago

But you should definitely trust that they are astute interpreters of political affairs (although they can't see how thoroughly owned they are by lib frameworks)

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22 Sep
The GOP wants to blame Biden for a problem it can solve on the southern border

Kristi Noem bragged about sending a National Guard unit to the border all the way from South Dakota. Greg Abbott also did a small deployment. Even Ron DeSantis sent state troopers from Florida 1/
Of course, these deployments were for show. But it has put the GOP in a bad (for them) place: 1) all of these deployments were PR stunts 2) but in doing these PR stunts, they also showed us that the GOP isn't powerless--they can exercise tremendous power 2/
The GOP wants to keep the focus on Biden because the GOP does not want to be pressured by Americans to go beyond publicity stunts and actually use the tools it has to secure the border. Ignore every single talking head that says otherwise 3/
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16 Sep
On a plane and the guy next to me just bitched about how the people next to him and behind him aren't wearing N95 masks, and when I asked what he expects the flight attendants to do (throw them out of the plane?) he just kept hysterically complaining about other passengers
Flight attendant was a good boomer who I suspect really hated having to deal with this, and pretty much everyone was rolling their eyes
The man was shaped like a hotdog btw, very effeminate voice too
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15 Sep
The biggest threat to Middle America isn't the Democratic Party; it is the absence of effective, sustained opposition from the Republican Party. Here is a thread on conservative-Republican people and groups to look out for as they try to rehabilitate their image 1/
Greg Abbott has been working hard to make people forget that he is among the worst Republicans--one who has his eye on the WH and has only started doing "based" things due to dismal polling and challengers 2/ amgreatness.com/2021/03/12/gre…
Abbott welcomed Amazon's business right before it booted Parler from its servers, slandered Gab as anti Semitic and has tried to characterize Allen West as a such by extension for his using the platform 3/
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29 Aug
The absolute state of US military leadership
People in the comments were asking for verification, so the guys running this account posted more:
People who really believe that Pentagon rot did not exist before Biden became president are delusional. The generals sucked when and before Trump was president
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26 Aug
The Kabul bombing will be used to argue for a return to Afghanistan and against attempting a withdrawal from there or anywhere again. Disagreement will be framed as cowardice or an endorsement of those US troop deaths a la George W. Bush, "you're with us or against us" 1/
The death of even one American is over there terrible and tragic--but they are only in harm's way because of this stupid uniparty pro war regime. Biden is a moron, but Republicans and Democrats have for decades refused to cut the chord and safely bring the troops home 2/
Americans should be furious as the political establishment but must not allow the GOP to channel their anger into idiotic partisan politics and endless war policies. Americans should be angry at the entire public sphere, at the idiot "experts," at the media, at all politicians 3/
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15 Aug
There was no way to withdraw from Afghanistan that would have avoided the government's eventual collapse. After 20 years, more than $2T and 240,000 lives later, "Biden did the pullout wrong" misses that reality 1/
There were things we could have done to protect friendlies I'm sure, but the government's collapse was inevitable. How much longer should we have stayed? How much more time/money would it have taken to fortify the Afghan government? 2/
"America has been embarrassed on the world stage" -- the ruling class has been embarrassed, and they deserve to be embarrassed. Their objective isn't to win wars but manage endless conflicts--they deserve to be humiliated and spited 3/
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