John Boring

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@feelsdesperate I like the pettiness and cruelty, personally. I can’t imagine I’m alone. Conservatives are Schrödinger's moralists — they’ll call ppl subhuman garbage all day before taking the fainting couch and exclaiming “oh my, how indecent!” If we’re racing to the bottom, let’s do it fr

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@xwanyex You act like this is a de jure exception to the obvious de facto law because of, once again, “truthiness.” You can use heuristics for the world without retreating to your “feel” in every case, especially when so clearly outside your area of insight (crime/st Louis)

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@xwanyex This topic is the rare case where every attempted dunk is in the same if ranrt neighborhood as the target. It might be liberating to say this out loud, Wayne: you are out of your depth for real here. I’m sure you can confidently describe the dinning Kruger effect. Do that now.

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@aliamjadrizvi @GadSaad Gas Saad is many things, but his essence is pure social media boomer — credulous, a fount of falsehoods, rare corrections. All of this would be obnoxious in anyone, but combined with his “hectoring gray eminence” persona it’s intolerable.

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@ggreenwald There are more people that hate both you and Ted Cruz than not

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@feelsdesperate “NY doctors have always done mostly vasectomies but now it seems they are doing mostly nose jobs.” This is how retarded you sound

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@hebreworphan @feelsdesperate Ah, I made a similar comment. Glad these laugh a minute charlatans provoke similar reactions in ppl who actually have any clue about their chosen subject matter

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@feelsdesperate “Election fraud etc” I really wish you guys could see yourselves from the outside for a moment. The FBI arrests nearly 100k ppl a year across 56 field offices. That idea that “election fraud” is anyone’s example of how the should “better” spend their time is absurd.

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@feelsdesperate Like, you know there are heritage Americans who will beat you to death with a bat for whatever pills they can find in your bathroom, right? Seriously, I would love to host your first contact with flyover country — I’ll cover your meals and drinks

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@feelsdesperate I hope some of the manhattanite and DC buddhas and gurus one day take a trip to a trailer park in Michigan and stay for a few days. So much of this is just decoupled blather. It’s laughably so similar to the ivory tower academic parochialism you claim to hate.

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@LibertyLockPod Counterpoint: who fucking cares? Grown men spending all day on an app trying to clock what young people think about things they mostly don’t grasp is a poor use of your limited time on earth.

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@martyrmade Gets off the toilet: “It’s time to post about the Jews again.”

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@robnormal @feelsdesperate How are you going to call that a false dichotomy? Surely you recognize we are either mindless economic drones consigned to slave labor or race essentialists! Who actually “falls” for this shit? It’s as infuriating as “believe all women” and every shitlib slogan

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@feelsdesperate “I haven’t posted any bad faith defense of racial essentialism today. *heavy sigh* here goes”

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@xwanyex This is a great point, as long as you omit essential context. To put it the way you might get it: “like, leftists do this thing where they omit crucial facts. Sure, ok, I might agree with you in a vacuum. But they lie through omission.”

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@ggreenwald It’s another day and Glenn greenwald is posting about the Jews

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@AuronMacintyre What do you think is the solution?

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@xwanyex Im not sure how patronizingly I can state this: I’m hoping maximally. You know how the Islamic Republic has the premise in the name? Countries are like that. Their premises are fundamentally different. Everyone knows this but some people make meager X money portraying confusion

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@xwanyex It’s amazing watching newly conservative influencers rediscover what “the unique premise of America” has meant, historically. Yes, Wayne, strident student of history, Guatemala is not in fact America and has never pretended to be.

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@xwanyex People make meaning through stories and the most available and resonant stories are drawn from their own cultural heritage in most cases—makes sense to look at the settled wilderness and think “my people made this from nothing, and that’s awesome.” Of course it is! But…

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@xwanyex So does anyone here have a steelman case or even a theory of mind for what this kind of assertion might mean? I don’t know who Sonny is—maybe that’s crucial context. But is there 1 person who might be able to understand the (vast) world of ideas this tweet touches?