RFK Jr’s campaign is the answer to the question, “What would it look like if a roided-out geriatric silver-spoon with a foie-gras frontal lobe ran for president.”
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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The apple does not fall far from the tree.
He could have written ‘two weeks’ and maybe ‘twelve and a half weeks’, but given the examples of his antisemitism in that article, I am sure that he knew exactly what he was doing.
The page you linked to is paywalled. Mind adding a transcription?
Did you already try refreshing the page?
Works now, idk why it didn’t earlier.
Because it’s a Google service.
Maybe now disaffected progressives will stop championing this douchebag's campaign?
I am pretty sure this guy had zero supporters outside of Twitter and Qanon.
Eh I've met a few. Self-described "leftists" who don't actually engage in anything beyond the theatre of electoral politics.
Tell that to the rightist trot in the patsoc student group I left. He was whining about his freeze peach to assign RFK Jr’s book to his students (he was a professor I think). I spent too much time debating him before I stopped responding. He responded to my disengagement by calling me an authoritarian Stalinist.
I’d classify trots as a type of terminal Twitter ideology.
The second they can set up a successful revolution or government; then I’ll consider looking at them like a legitimate organization.
Nothing new under the sun
I think some people have latched on to things like his Ukraine war stance. Which, while better than most democrats ( extremely low bar), still isn't good. If I recall correctly, he wants to involve UN peacekeeping troops, which doesn't help all that much. Having a position in opposition to the rest of the Democrats doesn't make him a leftist crusader.
He's still not really much different from the rest of the party though when you actually get down to it. I doubt he would even have as much traction as he does if not for his name. HIs zionist position is a non-starter for me just as an example. That's definitely not the only position I disagree with him on.
The more of a stage he gets, the more it seems to push people away from him. I doubt I will be able to vote by the next US election, but I definitely wouldn't be voting for RFK even if so.
He was a interventionist neolib yesterday, now he wants people to think he’s anti war. He has no anti-imperialist credentials.
