I quit. https://t.co/SVkk9d16Yd— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 11, 2020
I thought that was too far. I was wrong.
"It's a fake pandemic, created to destroy the United States of America," one guy says. https://t.co/TziVYNwNwI— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) September 11, 2020
Of course, on the "other side," we have this:
Worth noting that the trust-fund left is going to wank itself into a coma very soon. https://t.co/KsnYK3690W— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 10, 2020
Here's the tweet he's quoting:
Worth noting that less than 24 hours since this thread was posted, the Biden campaign website appears to have been updated. https://t.co/IOVmkNWLdK— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) September 10, 2020
Somebody needs to go back to logic and learn the difference between correlation and causation. Still, as bad as that is, they aren't as far removed from reality as this:
These people are beyond help, beyond compromise, beyond hope. https://t.co/igehdeDWY0— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 10, 2020
Lyndon LaRouche was about this crazy; but most people recognized that (or maybe we thought they did. Maybe the internet is turning over all the rocks so we can see the bugs crawling around. So many. I had not thought the world had undone so many. Unreal City )
People spend so many of their waking hours listening to make-believe, there's no room for reality. The comments on the one with the Susan Sarandon tweet are pretty much what the college-credentialed play-left is like. I don't think that was ever that much different, going back and reading the stuff they were writing in the 20s-50s isn't much more connected to reality. Those dear old commies we're supposed to remember with such affection were apologists for a tyrant as murderous as Hitler and it was well known that he was as they were apologists and promoters of him. And those who switched their adoration to Mao were and are still among us, some of them in the Susan Sarandon age cohort and in mine. The "new left" was full of such stuff. In the mean time there was a real left that didn't get the same attention. Not much of it was connected to the movies, TV, the writing of novels, so it was not as popular. Show biz is a lot more dangerous than I'd ever thought before 2000.
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