Conservatives have actual power and are using it, but late-night comedians are mean to Trump. I guess both sides are to blame!
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1540781547313278978
this guy is considered a Very Serious Person on /r/neoliberal, which should tell you everything you need to know about /r/neoliberal
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the key is to get your OPPONENT to choose violence when you have the stronger hand on that front
No, the key is to get the stronger hand of violence and then use it against your opponent as soon as feasible
It's been fun watching that sub turn increasingly right-wing. Do they even pretend to be left-leaning anymore? I remember them getting mad at being called conservative and they'd argue about being for universal healthcare and increased minimum wage.
They're "for universal healthcare" because they'd consider a modest Obamacare expansion to be universal healthcare. "If only a few thousand people go medically bankrupt each year, that's universal coverage."
Ukraine flag emoji never disappoints, only the most powerful takes
This is distilled liberalism in its purest form. This guy thinks the goal is to coax the other side into committing acts of violence because in his mind, because the system is all-powerful, whoever breaks the rules and goes against civility, loses.
Because the system is always fair and always works, the ultimate strategy in the mind of the liberal is to trick your opposition into trying to go against it, after which they will surely be crushed by its infallibility.
Libs think political institutions are the Fair Folk, powerful and dangerous yet bound by unbreakable rules
If it was that easy we could trick the bastards in to letting us run the country with an iron horseshoe and a lamb dressed up in a baby pram.
dude really thinks that it works like that one union busting episode of house of cards
It's so fucking easy to just say bullshit.
So far the Left has been more successful with this strategy -- the rightist coup attempt of 1/6 turned the military against the Right. But that success was not decisive, and the game continues.
Everyone in the replies is clowning on him for implying the left caused 1/6 but im more concerned with his assertion that the military is now anti-trump/alt right, like provide a single source for this assertion noah.
Also replying to people pointing out how this is both-sidesing by placing the side with no measurable power on equal ground and with equal agency to the side with measurable objective power that they get to exercise daily, by making up a comparison about how describing hitler and churchill as two sides of a war and describing their conduct is not both sidesing WW2.
Just casually changing the premise from a political conflict between two sides that have immensely unequal power to a war between two political and military leaders that each are fucking bombing each other, and then going "well if you ignore all the shit I changed the basic point is correct".
Tessa Thompson plays a woman who's gay in a Marvel movie, it makes libs feel nice and chuds rile themselves up about it and buy guns.
Culture being upstream of politics and all that.
That fucker is a devout believer in horseshoe theory. Centrist brain is a hell of a thing.
I want such stuff as m4a, a living wage, an inhabitable planet, and the US not be fascist.
Oh my god - I just realized I am a monster and I'm a simply a dark mirror of the fascists! Why didn't one of you guys tell me???
The left harasses with cultural power
Do you ever get the feeling that right wingers just say random bullshit constantly
They're gumball machines that churn out the same 8 words in different orders
