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This tweet was unsurprisingly prescient: https://twitter.com/campster/status/894749657091284992 https://twitter.com/campster/status/894749657091284992

• yannyu 9y ago
  Wingnut Welfare is a real thing: Wingnut welfare is an important, underrated feature of the modern U.S. political scene. I don’t know who came up with the term, but anyone who follows right-wing careers knows whereof I speak: the lavishly-funded ecosystem of billionaire-financed think tanks, media outlets, and so on provides a comfortable cushion for politicians and pundits who tell such people what they want to hear. Lose an election, make economic forecasts that turn out laughably wrong, whatever — no matter, there’s always a fallback job available. https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/wingnut-welfare-and-work-incentives/ https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/wingnut-welfare...
  • MBCook 9y ago
    I've never heard that term before. Interesting, thanks for the link.
  • jtuente 9y ago
    It's definitely not just right-wing
• chickenfries 9y ago
  A martyr is born. I wonder if he will be crowned "based Googler" or something.
• nacs 9y ago
  Surprising (or maybe not so surprising) what kind of Youtuber he went to: > Damore made the comments in his first major interview since being fired, to alt-right YouTube personality Stefan Molyneux.
  • josteink 9y ago
    You say that as if not being a leftist is somehow immoral, illegal or wrong.
    • nacs 9y ago
      Note it says "alt-right", not "right wing". The alt-right is a thinly veiled label for a hate/white-supremacy group.