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these people aren’t actually liberals

Agreed in the broad application on a national scale. This particular article is focused on Brooklyn, but I see this same co-opting the left happening locally in the PNW too. Google Deep Green Resistance for the transphobic libertarian environmentalist variety. We’re already fighting the creep.

One of the more deeply annoying things is the syrange idea that because they say un PC shit they’re somehow more authentically blue collar- which, I mean sorry you’re trust fund liberals from Brooklyn engaged in offense caricatures of what you believe the working class is- it’s no different than suburban kids using

I think this is the most correct take - these people aren’t actually liberals, they’re wealthy enough white people that inequality doesn’t harm them (and in fact they usually benefit from it) and they’re closer to being libertarian than ‘leftist’ with some exceptions around healthcare and student loans (because those

Replying just to point out that that twitter parody was truly hilarious.

Yeah, I haven’t necessarily waded into it online, but have noticed two leftist friends from grad school who despite learning all about different determinants of health and how things like racism and sexism can really mess up people’s wellbeing in research proven ways, still lean on the “class is the only determining

I live in Brooklyn and can confirm that many of the people here are insufferable (mostly the hipster wannabee transplants).

these two ladies seem like characters cut from a sketch show which specifically makes fun of Brooklyn and how annoying New Yorkers are

Oh, it’s 100 percent a grift. The system feels increasingly broken, and there’s a ready audience (and ready money) for people who can validate that. 

Brooklyn is actually home to many of the most provincial people in America. This podcast circle-jerk will soon drown in Prospect Park Lake (because where else is there?)

Increasingly, I think the single greatest thing about living in the Midwest is that there is no reason I’d ever have to learn about fake leftists from Brooklyn who start podcasts after their standup careers fail. It’s very freeing.

I would deeply love to not care about this, but Red Scare and Chapo House are *huge* on Twitter if you even slightly try to engage in leftist discourse. It is... startling, to say the least, to get called a centrist neoliberal white feminist shrill by people who espouse the viewpoint that white supremacy isn’t really

Appalachian Squirrel Queen” is going to be the name of my new death metal band. Thanks!

There’s been a lot of talk about extra “context” and with this documentary people making Michelle Carter, the woman who got all of 15 months for this... to be the victim. Here’s why I don’t care to watch this documentary and have zero sympathy for her. I’ll let Michelle Carter’s actual words to a suicidal person do

At least she stopped giving herself sharpie Edgar Allen Poe-meets-chola brows.

That crazy bitch doesn’t have enough face for her head size.

Probably. But it’s also important to remember that plenty of people who don’t like Trump are also assholes. Activist communities have seen plenty of male shitheads over the years.

It’s NICK CAGE.

The teleprompter is clearly behind the plexiglass and did not get rained on. Dude can’t even lie well. 

Funny how he talked about Obama using teleprompters as something very bad and low IQ type need.  Yet it he uses them all the time, just like those before him.