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The Left Is Now the Right

8 points by mancerayder 6y ago

gedy 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember being ostracized for defending a closeted lesbian couple in highschool, and the people today who attack for defending people with centrist/mildly conservative opinions seem very similar.. E.g. from "Omg you're queer too." to "Omg you're a hater too."
viburnum 6y ago
Taibbi’s been at this his whole career: everybody is dumb, this is all a big joke, I’m going to cover the 2004 election on acid and in a gorilla suit, I’m the bad boy frat guy of journalism, I will never wipe the smirk off my face.
- blaser-waffle 6y ago
  Someone had to pick up the mantle after Hunter S Thompson offed himself in the early 2000s. Nor does him being a smirking fratboy make him less incorrect. As time progresses all of Hunter Thompson's quotes about Nixon and his cronies (e.g. Roger Ailes) seem more true and prophetic than ever.
- mancerayder 6y ago
  He's a media critic, and has a particular concern with groupthink and a stifling of ideas. Your criticisms are curious character ad hominems exactly like one would expect. No one bothers countering with reason anymore, it's all just a zinger or hot take. Again, exactly as expected because that is the new norm.
moomin 6y ago
Well, in as much as someone who was seriously right wing ten years ago should be voting Democrat today, he’s right. But nah, it’s some groupthink tosh that only makes sense if you don’t actually understand any of the things he refers to.
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auganov 6y ago
I've been on the "right" since my earliest political memories (going back to about 2006). I just don't see that much having changed. It sounds like this myth of Republicans/right being super evil crazy people was foundational to his politics. Now that it's being challenged in his mind for whatever reason, he wants everything to go back to this blissful state. Note how he doesn't really say much nice about the Right. To call the Left Right is the greatest insult to him.

8 points by mancerayder 6y ago

gedy 6y ago

I'm old enough to remember being ostracized for defending a closeted lesbian couple in highschool, and the people today who attack for defending people with centrist/mildly conservative opinions seem very similar.. E.g. from "Omg you're queer too." to "Omg you're a hater too."

viburnum 6y ago

Taibbi’s been at this his whole career: everybody is dumb, this is all a big joke, I’m going to cover the 2004 election on acid and in a gorilla suit, I’m the bad boy frat guy of journalism, I will never wipe the smirk off my face.

blaser-waffle 6y ago
Someone had to pick up the mantle after Hunter S Thompson offed himself in the early 2000s. Nor does him being a smirking fratboy make him less incorrect. As time progresses all of Hunter Thompson's quotes about Nixon and his cronies (e.g. Roger Ailes) seem more true and prophetic than ever.
mancerayder 6y ago
He's a media critic, and has a particular concern with groupthink and a stifling of ideas. Your criticisms are curious character ad hominems exactly like one would expect. No one bothers countering with reason anymore, it's all just a zinger or hot take. Again, exactly as expected because that is the new norm.

moomin 6y ago

Well, in as much as someone who was seriously right wing ten years ago should be voting Democrat today, he’s right. But nah, it’s some groupthink tosh that only makes sense if you don’t actually understand any of the things he refers to.

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auganov 6y ago

I've been on the "right" since my earliest political memories (going back to about 2006). I just don't see that much having changed. It sounds like this myth of Republicans/right being super evil crazy people was foundational to his politics. Now that it's being challenged in his mind for whatever reason, he wants everything to go back to this blissful state. Note how he doesn't really say much nice about the Right. To call the Left Right is the greatest insult to him.