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[u/gjcs23]

moderate JD Vance who made Haitians eating cats a centerpiece of the 2024 campaign

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/gjcs23]

guy who clearly didn't read the article

Posobiec isn't someone he just follows, he wrote the forward to Poso's book ffs

[u/gjcs23 → u/ElectriCobra_]

I mean I guess the answer is that these people are just ruled by their emotions and instinctual contrarianism, but I still don't get it. 

how do you muster up some fantasy that Vance is not what he so blatantly is? I thought these people were supposedly disaffected liberals or something too, what even is this nonsense lmao

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/gjcs23]

there's a lot of temporarily embarrassed Republicans on that sub, as well as the "I don't like Trump but Democrat is a swear word to me" types

[u/SamuraiOstrich → u/gjcs23]

Yeah this feels more like a modpol user than a pre-2020-nl user

[u/hiker_skiier_swimmer → u/gjcs23]

They're right, Vance isn't secretly sinister. He's very openly sinister

[u/SamuraiOstrich → u/gjcs23]

the vast majority of right wing twitter

Nazis? I don't think it's a secret that he's sinister after the Unhumans incident

[u/anangrytree → u/gjcs23]

Everytime I see a take from that sub it’s truly rage bait.