@daveweigel@steamyporkbuns Incredibly uninformed about COVID for a journalist. Truly be better at your job.
Also no shit one has an advantage. "If one team says that immigrants are taking your jobs and the other says they deserve some protections, the first one wins. I guess we should demonize immigrants."
One scholar told me: “The number of votes Trump received in Los Angeles County was equivalent to the number of votes he received in the 633 most rural US counties combined.” Coastal liberals like to imagine the scary Trump voters are in middle America, not good places like LA. 2/
The fantasy that rural places are hotbeds of right-wing violence doesn’t just tap into old fears of scary hillbillies. It appeals because it allows suburbanites to imagine that the threat is over yonder, ignoring the scarier truth: the right-wing extremists are their neighbors 1/
Was transcribing an interview for diss work and went to put on @rehash_podcast when I was done. Took me 5 minutes to realize they hadn't both just decided slow their speech to 75% of normal out of nowhere
cheering when the marxist literary critic performs a devastating ideology critique on a cultural object i hate; booing when the marxist literary critic performs a devastating ideology critique on a cultural object i love. that's dialectics