How is it she is getting more absurd with the takes? It's gotta be interaction farming right, who the fuck is a "leftist" that likes Obama? Or does she believe that Obama was a leftist? i just dont even https://twitter.com/aimeeterese/status/1392450373697249280

      • PrincessMagnificent [they/them, any]
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        4 years ago

        https://conservapedia.com/Bill_Gates

        William (Bill) Henry Gates III (October 28, 1955 - ) is a Leftist, Globalist American businessman who was declared the richest person in the world from 1995 through 2007 according to Forbes.[1] A co-founder and former Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, Gates grabbed a monopoly over the operating system for the IBM personal computer, and has expanded that monopoly ever since based at times on anti-competitive and anti-innovative tactics. A liberal on many issues except relinquishing his own wealth, in early 2021 Gates trailed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the more conservative Elon Musk among reportedly the wealthiest in the world.

        Incidentially, Conservapedia describes Bezos as a "major donor to leftwing terrorist causes".

        • acealeam [he/him]
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          aimee terese isnt a conservative though, or at least not that brand of conservative. she used to call herself a leftist, and maybe she was before her brain got fried

          shes like the azealia banks, red scare podcast, glenn greenwald, Jimmy dore brand of left (dumb)

  • disco [any]
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    4 years ago

    Aimee Therese is like the physical embodiment of that meme about making up a person to get mad at online.

  • TurboGrafx16 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    They do this thing where they re-lump liberals back into "the left" which they know better than to do, just to make their strawman dunks easier. I don't know why they feel this need to do so. I'd guess it's because they're obsessed with cultural shit because economics is too hard and doesn't give them an easy sense of superiority to others.

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is just pure nonsense. I kinda feel sorry for her, she's obviously not doing well.

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think you're right, there truly does seem like something else is going on. This was damn near incomprehensible. I've noticed it seems like her takes have gotten more more detached from even her imaginary idea of politics and culture lately.

    • acealeam [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      shes like azealia banks but without the talent. 😔

  • acealeam [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    how does she know so many words and yet never forms a coherent sentence

      • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        In the early 1980s when I was studying for my SATs - I read all sorts of stuff I'd never read otherwise to test my vocab abilities. Tmost difficult thing I came across was - by far - Sports Illustrated. At first I was crushed. I thought to myself "What the fuck! Sports Illustrated is kicking my ass article after article!"

        If there was an article about horse racing - whenever possible they'd eschew such mundane constructs as "It was a rainy, dusty, and windy day." I can't even parody it. Not only was that so many decades ago - they surely went down thesaurus rabbit holes I'd struggle to find even with the help of the net. They went from rainy to inclement to some word that appeared a handful of times since the 1800s.

        I made a list of 10 most perplexing words and I asked my mom about them. She was a doctor. I figured she had to know at least half. I think she guessed at two and said she simply didn't know and couldn't even guess the rest. Then I brought in the magazine and she scanned it and she really laughed. She told me the writers probably didn't really know the words either and they were probably using a thesaurus like crazy.

        I don't know the details at all but I have to assume that the editor at that time was an insanely pompous prick so everybody created the most ridiculous phraseology to please him. As time went on - I noticed that a lot of sportswriting is heavily thesaurus-based. It's like Frank Zappa's quip about music journalism: "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read."

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      4 years ago

      Thanks, at least I know I'm not the only one.

      Said it before but I never got into twitter and many posts here make me very glad of that.

      • Pezevenk [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah lol although I get some second hand twitter from using this site. I actually do have an account which I made during the quarantine but it is kind of impossible for me to get into it, I'm not sure how people get so invested. Like every now and then I log on, I look at a couple tweets, I'm like "OK this is a mildly agreeable take", then I see some weirdo I don't know freaking the fuck out in the replies for some reason I don't even understand, and then I log off because none of it is particularly interesting.

  • toledosequel [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    She's managed to spin the long overdue popular outrage at Israel into "muh wokescolds" so she can shit on the non-existant Obama-leftists :jesse-wtf: this has to be performance art

  • trpoopo [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    If someone ignored the posturing and looked at what the left in the US actually does it is a reasonable takeaway. Over 80% of self identified leftist voted for Obama, Hilary and Biden. The representatives the left elects overwhelming vote in line with Obama, Hillary and Biden's wing of the party, especially on foreign policy.

    In the primaries Pete and Warren were able to split the Bernie vote explicitly because the American left is like this. Otherwise their hawkishness would've been disqualifying. Otherwise Biden would have had adjust his foreign policy to bring in the left after the primaries were over.

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      :maybe-later-kiddo: is a pretty accurate reality of the left in the US. It does also speak volumes about how kneecapped third parties truly are in the US. I suppose there is an actual argument in there that there isn't really even a real left in the US. While I'm not going to do a sectarianism, it's pretty obvious how shit the DSA can be in falling in line with so many people with a D in front of their name and I think that's a pretty acceptable take. At least the national DSA that is, local ones are for sure not always like this.

      The two party system in the US and electoralism in general here is just so bad that unless an actual, genuine and large working class movement happens, most of this will never change. The "left" that does vote probably doesn't really associate much with who they vote for. I'm just guessing here, because the alternative can seem worse for BIPOC and LGBTQA communities because of the rights ability in enact even more harmful laws than what the dems already do. But yeah, they did vote for them, so it's not wrong, but Aimee seems to heavily imply the right would be the answer and I'd hard disagree with that one