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Oliver Willis

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14 Jan

this concept always seems hard for liberals on here to grasp:

1. democrats propose very popular legislation
2. they put it up for a vote
3. republicans vote against it
4. democrats hammer gop for stopping popular thing
5. people vote for dems to get the thing

it is not that complicated and republicans have done it time and time again, and even sometimes dems. but instead its always like "why put it up to vote if its going to lose?" even though *that's not the point*. i dont understand this mindset!

its like "we offer legislation supporting puppies and kittens, and republicans voted against not just kittens but also puppies, if you like kittens and puppies vote for us so we can pass laws supporting kittens and puppies, what kind of monster hates kittens and puppies?"

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Oliver Willis

@owillis

14 Jan

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1482009272321986570

we're doing wind and we're doing it very strongly folks. a strong man a powerful man, a big guy, he came up to me with tears in his eyes and he said "sir, they said we could not do wind but then you did wind sir, thank you for the wind sir." a lot of people are saying "wind" now.

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1482009272321986570

before i did wind they tried to do coal. they did coal and it was so nasty folks so nasty, it got in your lungs, the beautiful children, they had coal in their lungs. so i said "do wind, lets do wind ok?" and i did wind, and we're doing it strongly and theyve never seen it before

so theyre building the mills, i call them the windmills, a lot of people are calling it windmill now, so we're doing wind in the mills and we're winding those mills folks boy we are winding it so strong but the wind is strong folks strong like youve never seen before

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Oliver Willis

@owillis

14 Jan

too many liberals think that a bunch of facts will stop a fox news narrative. because they ignore fox they think it operates based on reality. "oh, this debunks fox, they'll have to stop making that accusation." that isn't how it works. fox just keeps attacking. it is undeterred.

we can't just ignore fox news. it is the animating element behind nearly everything the republican party does. looking away is an idiotic action. and even worse, its what liberals have done for years, and why we're in a mess.

if you have any interest in political activism from a liberal pov, you have a duty to understand fox so you can motivate opposition to it, and thus the republican party. you can't just look away cause it makes you feel bad. that's moronic.

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Oliver Willis

@owillis

14 Jan

My least favorite thing on political twitter are the people who think tweets asking democrats to please God fight for things = “voter suppression.” A voter is far more likely to be discouraged by Dems not fighting than 100,000 mildly critical tweets.

I think it’s as obvious as the sun is hot that Democrats and liberals in general do not fight hard or often enough for things. It’s been true for years. Not “helpful” to pretend otherwise and this myth that it’ll be all ok if everyone just pretends things are going great is bad.

There have been very few fights over the last 25 yrs or so where I think you could honestly say Dems “left it all on the field.” Theres always sense of fear and hesitation, always holding back, always “waiting to take the right shot,” which in reality just has left tons on table.

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Oliver Willis

@owillis

13 Jan

not that debates really move the needle but the rnc's decision to walk away from presidential debates should be noted in context that obama cleaned romney's clock and hillary and biden beat trump.

please proceed.

the only debates i would argue that the gop won was the first 2000 debate with gore sighing and the obama-romney debate where obama phoned it in. even kerry beat bush in the debates, for all that it mattered.

do people remember andrew sullivan freaking out at that first obama debate? lol. obama did a poor job but then he turned out to just be gathering steam.

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Oliver Willis

@owillis

13 Jan

this is kind of a provocative position of mine but a lot of people on the left seem to have this pov that "propaganda" is always a negative thing. be aware im not arguing that propaganda has not often been used for evil things. but look at the actual definition.

i once had a multi-tweet argument with someone on here because i dared to say barack obama's very good political speeches were "propaganda." when yes, obama's speeches are textbook definition propaganda, and he's damn good at it.

there's this idea that "the stuff i like is pure and the stuff i dont like is propaganda" and that's not true at all.

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