• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Weird how we only start seeing these kinds of ideas hit news sites just when people are starting to turn on the ol’ GOP.

    Like, we’ve been seeing this guy vomit hateful, nonsensical bullshit for years now and everyone out here with half a brain just looking at each other like, “Is this for real?” but apparently Doctor-Evil-Meets-Wormtongue actually running policy in our country is fine. It’s fine. Don’t worry about it. Go back to your slop, piggies.

    But now when people are talking about primaries and voting out incumbents, suddenly everyone is scrambling to throw everyone else under the bus and we get stories like this finally reaching our eyes.

    I mean, this absolute freak of nature has been screaming on camera like Elliot Rogers reincarnated for so long, that it feels obvious and hollow now that people are talking about it. Feels very “It’s only bad when we’re in trouble.”

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      16 hours ago

      Wtf are you talking about? These stories have been out there the whole time. Last week. Last month. Last year.

      A problem is that they’re still not mainstream articles. Like this one.

      NYT did have a number of negative articles about Miller as well, but people weirdly don’t give enough of a shit.