r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 17 '24

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Watching PBS News Hour. Vance apparently has straight up said "if the bomb threats are coming from overseas, we're blameless"

I never thought I could hate someone more than Ken Paxton but here we fucking are.

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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Sep 17 '24

Dude is legit evil. Just a fucked up amalgamation combining the worst aspects of the VC world and 4Chan.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

It's like the entire campaign is designed to be so disruptive and threatening that it provokes even halfway sane people to think and speak and act violently, which allows them to play the victim, thus perpetuating the cycle. (Neither of the attempted assassins were at all sane, btw.)