It was pretty surprising because honestly she's always seemed pretty hostile to the left to me, but she straight up said any "problems" the US is dealing with now with immigrants trying to escape the area into our country is just reaping what they sowed over the past 50+ years, and how bad we fucked them up solely for our market interests. Pretty unexpected to hear that kind of take on mainstream cable TV, esp the bit about overthrowing democratically elected leaders, and def didn't expect it from her, but I'lll def take it no matter who it comes from.

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Besides the fact that she's a grifter, I think we've entered a new phase of late empire where we have to acknowledge how fucking evil we are. The liberals recognize this and their response is to get ahead of it so they can control the conversation. They'll tell you the US is a settler-colonial empire and encourage you to call it one, but they'll never tell you how to actually end the settler-colonial empire. Just like it's okay to say it was wrong to topple Saddam, but if you say Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld should be strung up in the Hague for the very crime you're condemning, you're being uncivil.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    It's like that CNN guy a couple weeks ago who broke character and explained that the Cold War against China is just the military industrial complex making up a bad guy.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Okay it's a little different than I remember. It was just about the US military size.

        https://twitter.com/thouse_opinions/status/1376766573755555842

  • WalrusPooPooPuDo [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    That's way above par for her or MSNBC in general. But. Did she, in that segment, mention Vice President "Don't Come"-ala Harris?

  • Tyreup [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Reid can once and forever fuck right off.

    Most people learned about her homophobia, but here's a quote she posted on her blog (doing in spoiler tags because it is fucked):

    cw: islamaphobia, racism

    "My feeling is that the only reason that a world war between civilizations has not already broken out is that the vast majority of Muslims living in the world today are so desperately poor that they have the time, energy and resources for only the occasional burst of AK-47 fire into the air from the garbage and sewage laden streets outside of their mud huts. Give them resources and I fear that they will come after us everywhere that they can find us, which is to say everywhere."

    source

  • cilantrofellow [any]
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    3 years ago

    She also knows her primary audience is dying off and pays attention to opinion polling more than anything. Her job is clearly important to her.