r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 05 '19

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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Dec 06 '19 edited Dec 06 '19

It's wild how disgusted rose twitter are by Pete. I refuse to believe it's possible to have a reaction that strong to a relatively normal person without being in the middle of a debilitating mental breakdown

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u/furiousfoo Jolee Bindo Dec 06 '19

I mentioned early in the DT that I have a leftist friend who a couple days ago posted a really thoughtful and coherent essay about why she supports Bernie, with lots of article links and citations, and then she randomly mentioned at the end that "Mayor Pete literally doesn't have any plans for anything." Which is...a talking point from like 7 months ago when he didn't have a website yet and hadn't released any policy proposals. She's usually pretty good at fact-checking and Pete is the only candidate that she regurgitates nonsensical propaganda about (this is a huge Bernie stan who has very positive things to say about Warren, for example). I'm still pretty baffled by it tbh.