Haha.

I got into this whole thing via the Skeptics or fedora tippers.

Took the whole “facts > feelings” bit a bit too far for them tho.

Me too a little bit, but the AnPrim angle was a bigger role for me

But I did watch Sargon a bit

Who unironically likes this dude

https://youtu.be/YKi-2ncApg4

NAH

Says the one with an AOC avatar lol

@Sam Anderson I voted for him

He still supports the wall and stopping the opioid crisis.

That face is haunting

Does he?

Yeah man. He wants to tax the rich to fund the wall. Not my first choice but not terrible.

He's a blue collar, pro-union West Virginia Democrat. They tend to lean a bit more right wing populist on social issues and fairly left on fiscal issues.

For president lol good luck with that

I really like how he calls out both left and right politicians for taking big pharma bucks.

My gfs stepdad was a union Democrat who became really pro trump

Because he said the Democrats don't care about the unions anymore, they care about immigrants

I think he might be more woke but I haven't prodded too much

If he gets high enough in the Democratic party, I see him getting attacked with racial rhetoric by the Left. It is their best weapon to exile somebody from the party.

Racist is the hard R of the Left.

Yeah being pro-immigrant is kind of pointless in West Virginia, since there are relatively few immigrants here. Apart from some Arabs and Russian foreign exchange students.

In order to survive as a Dem here, you have to be a populist, no way around it.

I mean Trump doesn't care about getting called a racist anymore apparently lol

@Sam Anderson I don't think that would work, Ojeda would just point out that he's Mexican if the left comes after him.

Wait hes Mexican?

@StevePines -WA well Trump's administration has the lowest unemployment figures for blacks and Hispanics in all of American history, pretty hard to say he's been bad for them

But the proof that blacks and Hispanics continue to not vote for him or support him shows that they are voting along racial lines and not economic ones, right?

Great brand, @VinceChaos

Yeah talking about how one has been good for X or Y colored group is just a cope.

@@Chris N. - CA Absolutely, but the point isn't to woo blacks and Hispanics, it's to assuage whites of the fear that they may be racist

@Sam Anderson Yep, I think he's an anchor baby too, which really surprised me

@ThisIsChris oh it's easy for them, just unsubstantiated <:teehee:381917632359563264>

@StevePines -WA I've literally been using this argument with left-leaners and the extreme lefties have no response and the moderate lefties respond positively. Both irl and internet

@ThisIsChris I see what you mean. Getting rid of the fear of being called racist is a powerful force and is what whites need to be energized as a voting bloc.

Well that's good, it's nice to hear some people can still reason, usually the people who come to protests don't have the brain power to even defend their points beyond feels

Yeah, I usually avoid talking politics but a lot of people are still pretty reasonable. Not just white people either. We can win but we have to be sensitive to the fact that many whites are deathly afraid of being called racist. With good reason I might add, if the label sticks to you then you can easily be isolated from society.

This man is a stud. https://twitter.com/david_s_bell/status/1085583773108920320?s=21

Haha, this guy must have his own business or something. No way he’s this comfortable without being self-employed.

Also, he’s said some risqué things on there. Let’s hope the DA isn’t an activist and doesn’t choose to charge him with a hate crime to appease the social justice masses.

Ojeda seems like meme distraction like McMullin was