the foundational problem with this whole line of thinking is that it presupposes that left wingers only are exposed to or engage with right wing ideas if they're on the drug-addled Boer's website, when in actuality the entire media ecosystem is at a minimum slanted to the center right.

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“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

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"...broad-based taxation becomes impossible. Instead fantasies are promoted whereby if only a sufficiently punitive tax on an extremely small class of ultra-wealthy persons were adopted we could in fact fund a social democratic welfare state in perpetuity."

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Billionaires get mad at things that can't be bought, like talent. Surely they should be able to write books and perform music and have mathematical insights just as well as the talented -- they're rich! If we let them dismiss and devalue real talent, we're going to pay a big price.

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I’ve thought about this a lot- I love the Mamdani/Ossoff/El-Sayed energy- but the ‘squad’ brought that energy first, paid huge heavy consequences for it, that were still seeing play out most recently against Ilhan Omar.

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