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“Unfortunately he is bringing his 4.1 million Twitter followers along for the ride, dragging them into the Alt Right conspiracy world...”

No, they’re not dragged. Unfortunately they go along willingly, happily.

Getting them to leave the bubble and all it provides them (resentment, paranoia, false sense of superiority ,etc.) is what would take forceful dragging.

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Such a laughable cliché leftist perspective.

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Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 26, 2023

In what way? Because your reply is very much the substance-free nothing that we've come to expect from folks on the right.

Want to debate this? I suspect not, but let's give you a chance to show you're more than the dismissive balloon-dweller your reply implies.

Do consumers of right-wing and alt-left (they're the same crowd) NOT live in tidy little bubbles? Do Fox viewers and followers of Jordan Peterson and their ilk get news from numerous sources across the political spectrum to make sure they have a broad perspective? Do they challenge Peterson on his outlandish claims?

Or do they get their info from one source they never question?

Shall we discuss these, and any questions you have for me? Or will you run away, little bot?

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I can hear Jimmy Dore crying into his pillow

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Less Glenn Greenwald is a secondary bonus to the firing or Tuckems. But, it’s so funny (and not at all surprising) that Jimmy Dore is tore up about it. Again, the political spectrum is a horseshoe, not a line.

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I'm not jumping in to defend Dianne Abbot, I don't know who she is, but this story did spark a thought I'd like to share.

Comparing the atrocities of one single government that took place over a period of 6-7 years feels a little different than what multiple governments have done to a different identity group over multiple generations. Could this be a conversation about terminology rather than ideology? Is there a word that more accurately describes the difference between a single event vs a wide-spread and ongoing issue?

Both events were racist in origin, but the Holocaust is widely (though not universally, sadly) derided here in the US while police still shoot unarmed black people without consequence.

Not trying in any way to pick a fight about it; just sharing a thought.

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Focusing on just the Holocaust ignores the much longer history of pogroms and other acts against Jews.

It’s like comparing just the acts against Blacks during the post-Civil Way Reconstruction period to the multi generational oppression of Native Americans. Would that suggest the blacks haven’t had it nearly so bad by comparison, or would it be overlooking the long history of the enslavement of blacks?

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Are fake LSM is disgusting and ignorant. Turn on the TV and heard them all yelling asking question a disgrace where were they educated.

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