Letting war criminals into your big tent dilutes any good you're doing. They're war criminals, Joel, not just people who "don't see eye to eye" with you.
Not surprising to see this though, Joel always approaches every political issue as a philosophical exercise to figure out using the correct rhetorical strategy, a neat little game to solve. So of course he doesn't see the historical atrocities that Cheney and co are responsible for as real, there's a bigger bad on the horizon so it's all just a trolley problem.
I know Joel wasn't a communist, but I'm surprised to see him make a take this bad
I didnt get the vibe that Joel was far left in any capacity (might have missed something though). So this seems sadly totally on brand for lets say a "progressive" lib.
He made some decent critiques of reactionaries. But you're right, that doesn't mean anything more than a progressive lib.
Turns out a lot of the video essayists were liberals all along
I thought so too. But reading the twitter thread, the guy defends his pro Kamala position pretty hard.
youtubers are coming out with bad electoralism takes this season huh
Who would've thought that breadtubers are just liberals? Who could have possibly seen this coming? Stop paying attention to cOnTeNt CReAtoRs please
we cannot disavow Adolf Hitler (R-OH)'s endorsement we need the coalition to be as broad as possible to defeat bad man
J.K. Rowling view of politics where good people have negative qualities (humanizing flaws) and bad people have the same negative qualities (character condemnation).
John Bolton is a warmonger (hitlerian), Dick Cheney is a warmonger (troubled past). It's quasi-religious, these people are redeemed and wash their hand of sin by disavowing Trump even though they may be directly responsible for more death and destruction than the entire trump administration collectively. It's quite literally the shit people clown on Naruto and (kinda) Steven Universe for, every horrific thing someone does can be redeemed if someone more horrific shows up and they say "oh no I was being bad but this is really bad I'm against this" that's not how redemption works! Clownish view of rehabilitation! Spiral to the bottom!
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The dumbest part is these aren’t big Republicans. If they were, they would’ve just identified them by name.
40 years ago somebody wished: i want reagan republicans to see the light and vote dem
democrats are now to the right of reagan
Must be nice to have this view. The world would be so simple
I am so unbelievably tired of these “progressive” type crackers smugly lecturing the uppity POC about why they NEED to support Kdolf Hitler
Nothing good has ever come from that cursed nation, except maybe Godard and Alice Chappelle.
I FUCKING LOVE REALPOLITIK! I WANT TO OPTIMIZE THE VOTE!
