but Ali G was always at his funniest - i.e. at all funny - when he was interviewing 75 year old Tory backwoodsmen who had no idea what was going on. the equivalent now would be interviewing Jacob Rees-Mogg - but Jacob Rees-Mogg knows who Ali G is and knows how to emerge from that the way he wants to

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it is the same exact thing as demanding that black candidates for office “disavow farrakhan,” which happened quite a bit in the 90s and 2000s

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Yeah the 'quantitative not qualitative' argument reflects a fatal lack of imagination

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Many who do this think they’re being savvy cynics, but they’re really just being fascist enablers.

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Of all the stupid and unproductive arguments today, the insistence that nothing different is happening in American politics—maybe a bit greater degree, but not any relevant difference in kind—is among the stupidest and most unproductive.

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