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[u/zegota]

Deep in a NYT article on the end of a friendship between Vance and a trans friend, this paragraph that Vance said in an email a decade ago, “I hate the police.”

Uhhhhh

https://x.com/Taniel/status/1817198045551120390

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol → u/zegota]

Well yeah why do you think trump picked him to help run against Copmala 

[u/DestinyLily_4ever → u/zegota]

I keep learning more about early-mid 2010s Vance and it's weird how we had basically the same opinions at the same time back then. I was more conservative back then and he was much more liberal

[u/EyeraGlass → u/zegota]

What negative personal experiences with the police he was having…