https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya
What kind of fuckin' loser is still out here making Game of Thrones references?
The only way i can explain this is that this dork held off on watching the final season until the last two books come out.
I've held out on watching GOT until the last books came out.
I read the first 5 books in college like 10+ years ago.
There's this very weird habit of some random guy on the internet screaming at some other random person on the internet "YOU! YOU DID THIS! IT'S YOUR FAULT!"
Like, didn't Biden win? Aren't Chuck and Nancy running Congress? Wasn't America saved? What the fuck are these libs even talking about anymore?
Also, last time I checked. I'm pretty sure both are in the White House. Like, right now. What the hell are they bitching about?
You didn't :vote: hard enough and you don't worship them publicly. No wonder that racism is still around.
Right but Moscow Mitch is still there. And mean. How are we supposed to do anything?
"Populism" was a diabolically clever way for the liberal establishment to equate "hey maybe poor people shouldn't die" to the 14 words
Democracy is when everyone agrees with me and Populism is when people are tricked into disagreeing with me by an evil demagogue.
We can't have people who've been tricked into thinking wrong making decisions. That's just stupid on its face. So we need to have Rational Discourse among people who are already right-thinking. That's Real Democracy. If you're making decisions based on Fake News, that's not Democracy. That's Fascism.
If it has immediate appeal that even some poor, uneducated “Redneck” can understand, then it must be wrong. Econ 101 and Thomas Sowell said so
Thomas Sowell actually wrote a book titled "Black Rednecks And White Liberals" that argued something of the opposite. Of course, he still ended up siding with Nixonian Republicans against Kennedy Democrats. Still, Sowell wasn't afraid to get down and dirty with the Reagan-style populism. Pretty much what you'd expect from a spook.
I think the main issue that I can’t find words for is that liberals are simultaneously very relativistic but still very clearly believing that they are right, Republicans are wrong, and it is a moral imperative that leftists support them against Republicans even as they work with Republicans against leftists.
Modern Democrats are a more modern flavor of American Nationalist. Perhaps more rhetorically humble than their conservative counterparts. But the lessons they've read from history are that the FDR/LBJ/Clinton Era was all about building a consensus in government institutions. Dems are setting themselves in opposition to the now-rampant libertarian attitude within the Republican Party, embracing the state whole-heartedly and exhibiting much of the same patriotic rhetoric you'd have expected to see from Republicans twenty years ago.
They are becoming conservatives in the small-c sense, as they try to get back to the 80s-era of ahem consensus politics. And to that end, they believe they need that Romney-school Republican Party to define the reasonable out edge of the right-wing. They want a Loyal Opposition that they can spare with for all eternity.
It seems like Republicans are treated as Legitimate for the purpose of attacking hardline left stances (“People have good reasons for thinking what they do, you can’t just dismiss it for your radical dogmas!”) while also a malignancy that means not supporting Democrats against them is childish at best and evil at worst.
Not all Republicans are created equal.
The Loyal Republicans - the fellow nationalists - are considered legitimate when attacking the Left, because the Left aren't loyal. The Traitorous Republicans - the Out-And-Proud Trumpians - are considered a threat that Democrats need Loyal Republicans to rein in.
it looks like you start out talking about the right-libertarian vs openly-pro-government Republican divide, then frame it as nationalists vs Trumpians.
The petite bourgeoise business tyrants aren't nationalists. They're probably best described as Anarcho-Capitalists, of the Rothbard / Mises mindset. They generally hate the government, they routinely hate on people from out-of-state, they hate the idea of migratory labor, and they hate paying taxes towards any kind of national projects (military, domestic, or otherwise). These guys are Trump's base.
Well, Trump loves deregulation of businesses but also an open police state, so I’d still say not libertarian-friendly rhetorically. I think I’m misunderstanding something.
Trump's not really pro-government in any substantive sense. He's not a big fan of the imperial project (particularly one that he feels like we're losing). He's not at loggerheads with China or Russia, like his neoliberal/neoconservative peers. He's a white supremacist, but not really a white nationalist, as he shows open disdain for any nationalist institution - be it CIA or Post Office or departments that are run by his own hand-picked cabinet members - that irks him.
His endorsement of the police state hinges entirely on police endorsement of him. It doesn't extend to the FBI or manifest as the Mullar-esque Duty To The Office persona. It's always just "What have you done for me lately?"
I still don't know how they reached the conclusion that leftism is white and racist
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Anybody who isn't a Democrat is a Republican
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Republicans are all white and racist.
Any questions?
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leftism is white and racist
"racist white left-populism"
Pretty sure the nametag is an off-handed reference to Game of Thrones.
This is a fifty year old white man who spends so much time on Twitter that his wife divorced him.
This man has tweeted 162 thousand times. The average book is around 350k characters. This man could have written more than 100 books, but he chose to tweet.
left-populism is likely gonna end the American Experiment
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