The Senate leadership race doesn't matter at all actually
All the candidates are about the same ideologically (bad). Scott gets a point for being backed by Trump but loses a point for being a Medicare fraudster who should be in jail so that evens out
Jul 4, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
As far as I know, no political scientist has written about how American trans teenagers memed an ideology called "Democratic socialism" into existence 8 years ago and now it's on Wikipedia listed as the ideology of the British Labour Party and Marxist parties from the 30s
Capital D Capital S "Democratic Socialism" as a distinct ideology existing between social democracy and Marxism-Leninism was never a thing. Such ideology existed but it was just called "socialism" without any adjectives
Nov 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Leftists get more mad at Kissinger for bombing the Khmer Rouge in 1971 than they do at the Khmer Rouge for killing 1.5 million people in 1975
My own theory is that anger at Nixon/Kissinger over bombing Cambodia was so contemporary lib issue that somehow survived into the current day because people incorrectly conflate it with the Pol Pot-led genocide
Mar 28, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"Judicial reform" is just a cypher. Liberal Jews in both Israel and the diaspora realize that Israel is deeply unpopular with their political allies. They attack Netanyahu as a way to appear on side without actually counter-signaling Zionism
Netanyahu can drop his plan for judicial reform and they will still hate him just as much and make up some other reason: generalized "corruption", his son being a Nazi, more complaining about the ultra-Orthodox
Mar 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Nov 26, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Both things are true. There was an upsurge in Wholesome Chungusism after Charlottesville and a lot of racists were socialist. These two things are not mutually exclusive. They were happening at slightly different levels but they were related and feed into each other
Alt-right 1.0 (Spencer and TRS) had memed themselves into becoming hardcore Third Positionists by 2017. The combination of racism and socialism put them in diametric opposition to the Republican Party and made their original project of Republican entryism impossible
Sep 2, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Very skeptical of the claim that new Warner Discovery leadership is going to make their brands "less woke". AT&T, the previous corporate owner of HBO and DC, also announced plans to make their products less woke but found that doing so was basically impossible
There is simply nowhere to recruit executive leadership that isn't woke. Everyone who has gone to university and worked their way up the corporate ladder is woke by default
Aug 31, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What does this have to do with Dimes Square besides the fact that these people are under 40 and live in Manhattan? There's no way those dark niggas in the back have heard of Red Scare
Realistic Dimes Square show would be 5 Mischlings (2 of whom are Hapa and one of whom is half black) and then one full white guy (spoiler alert, the full white guy is the villain who leaves half way through the show and calls everyone racist)
Aug 31, 2022 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
Bulgarian election thread
Bulgaria will hold parliamentary elections on October 2nd. These will be the 4th parliamentary elections in 2 years. The first 2 elections in 2021 produced hung parliaments. The 3rd produced an unwieldy coalition government which just collapsed, necessitating these new elections
Jun 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The reasons liberals used to do the Satanism bit was to keep Christians from putting up 10 Commandments monuments. "You don't want us to put up OUR monument so you better not put up yours" it was based on the idea that everyone actually finds Satanism repugnant
Needless to say, that logic doesn't work when linking abortion to Satanism. They like abortion so they shouldn't be trying to associate it with something universally negative. Yet they do it anyway
