It's like the Tryhard Countercult of Personality.

"After an extensive HR investigation, we have determined that everyone is angrier at us than we expected, so we will be terminating our relationship."

The period known as Redemption is little known to most Americans — I’d argue intentionally — but it’s the period after the fall of Reconstruction where Black people are stripped of their rights, democracy falls in the South and the system of racial apartheid is entrenched.

"Yes, he said 'I surrender.' But if you had been there, you could have told it was being said sarcastically."

"It may not be 'artificially intelligent,' but it's 'formulaically contrived,' and isn't that all we really need?"

Hm. Just a thought, but maybe sort of a "50 shades of gray" mindset - a soft victimization fantasy as a prelude to a victorious reformation of someone else's essence. The Declaration of Independence reads sort of the same way. Sort of a continuum of culture as grievance.

FWIW, I think the pacification argument presupposes the natural coalition is against them. Fascists lie, because some people only side with them if they are earnestly deceived. And I think that is also true for status quo establishmentarians of an ostensibly leftish bent. It's a gamed constituency.

The Housebroken Caucus

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I always thought the racism was the point of the appeal. Rogan has not exactly been subtle over the span of his career. People of a certain caste want racist indoctrinators for the " woke youth"

He was very influential and his proteges have many influential positions in the party. The whisper campaigns about BR were part of what killed his presidential aspirations.

The oi polloi

He's got a case of identitarian normieism. He doesn't want to lead with gay, but his normie and militarist identities aren't as popular across the coalition as he wants them to be.

Is it fair to wonder why they got six different versions of their own recipes on the shelf if they nailed it so hard on the first try? I eat Heinz at home (the kind without sugar and corn syrup). But I have definitely enjoyed retaurants' house ketchup too.

Epiphanic aesthete.

They are. Bill Richardson, the Democratic governor of New Mexico was deeply implicated in the Epstein stuff. It was a bipartisan (and international) criminal enterprise.

Let's not get distracted by winning issues, guys.