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Feb 25 4 tweets 1 min read
A reminder: “PRONOUNS” is right-wing shorthand for Fussy SJWs Who Have No Real Problems And Have Disappeared Up Their Own Navels Seeking Self-Affirmation.

It is also emphatically anti-transgender, which remains overwhelmingly anathema to conservatives.
The “PRONOUNS” dog whistle implies that today’s gender-obsessed whippersnappers are weak & spoiled and would never be strong or brave enough to defend their country.

But let’s not forget who precisely is standing in the way of transgender soldiers who actually do wish to serve.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should put your incessant complaining about trivialities in perspective.”

For the record, I’ve seen this argument directed at both the left & right.

For the left, it’s the pronoun thing. For the right, it’s being required to wear a mask at Costco.
But you need to consider these examples side-by-side to compare the frequency and the degree of the aforementioned complaints.

We’re just not seeing a whole lot of feral liberals making a scene at the Walmart when the cashier gets their pronouns wrong.

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Feb 25
Looks like everyone on the Right got the memo this week
(sticking out arms like zombies) “PROOOONOUNS… PROOOONOUNS… PROOOONOUNS… PROOOONOUNS…”
NYT: We’re here in Squidlifter, South Dakota to ask folks about the invasion of Ukraine

R: Maybe the Democrats would be better prepared if they weren’t obsessed with PRONOUNS! 😂

NYT: I don’t think Democrats are talking about that

R: Those commies will never stand up to Russia
Read 5 tweets
Feb 23
This is the Bizarro-world version of “No Viet Cong ever called me a n****r”
You really have to compare the scenarios side-by-side to appreciate how thoroughly Tucker is leaning into the Conservative Victimhood narrative
🙍🏾‍♂️: Hello; I am a young black man fighting for civil rights in 1968

👨‍💼: And I am a famous conservative television commentator in 2022

🙍🏾‍♂️: It seems like no matter what I do, the system is never going to give me a fair shake

👨‍💼: Tell me about it, my brother!
Read 6 tweets
Feb 21
CHECK, PLEASE

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For all of their performative outrage about “cancel culture,” most conservatives are indeed aware that deplatforming does not violate the First Amendment. If you own a TV network or a social-media site, you have every right to decide who has a voice & what they’re allowed to say.
So it certainly makes sense that Donald Trump would want to create a social media platform where he & his acolytes are free to propagate their ridiculous conspiracy theories in peace.
Read 14 tweets
Feb 15
The only reason the Durham probe of the FBI exists is for conservative news outlets to report that There Is Definitely Something Going On That the Mainstream Media Won’t Report
NYPOST: Hillary accused of spying

NRO: The final Durham report will be damning

DM: Biden aide is in the hot seat

FOX: THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA REFUSES TO TALK ABOUT THIS

D: That’s because it sounds like a lot of hot air and wishful thinking

R: How can Democrats be so brainwashed
D: Trump’s son attended a meeting with Kremlin lawyers to collect dirt on HRC after they’d hacked US government servers

R: That’s been debunked

D: No it hasn’t

R: Plus, it is far less significant than our allegation that Obama and/or Clinton and/or Biden spied on Trump
Read 8 tweets
Feb 15
I suppose we all reach the stage of life where we have to stop taking spontaneous trips to Rome because we’re hungry for pasta
DiSANTIS, FEBRUARY 3: Whoo-hoo! I’ve been interviewed by the New York Times! I can’t wait to tell my family & friends!

DiSANTIS, FEBRUARY 4: Why are there so many people with pitchforks in my front yard
GOV. DeSANTIS: And to think *I* used to be the least-popular “DeSantis” in the country

DiSANTIS: But we spell our names differently

GOV. DeSANTIS: Yeah yeah, Marie Antoinette. Listen, can you please stand a little further away?
Read 4 tweets
Feb 13
“The solution to offensive speech is more speech, not less” is a difficult maxim to refute. But it is not without its problems, the greatest of which is that the loudest and most persistent voices invariably end up dominating the discussion regardless of empirical merit
I think some proponents of this ideology cling to a platonic ideal of the “marketplace of ideas” in which the wisdom of the masses is sufficient to separate valuable truth from deceit & chicanery.

This does not appear to be how it works in the real world.
We have similar ideals in our discussions of the economic “free market”, but when, say, Jimbo’s Mom & Pop Shop goes head-to-head with Jeff Bezos’ Half-a-Trillion-Dollar Electronic Megamall it’s not exactly going to be a fair fight
Read 7 tweets

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