Was going to say, the quote sounds great, but of course I had a feeling the context was probably saying... calling the specific government/individuals who are commiting a genocide out for what they are actually doing. Rather than hating people for what their race is.

The GOP glorifies personal responsibility while making sure that individuals without wealth have little to no power.

Perhaps have a look at what he achieved instead of the label he achieved it under. His policies were pretty far removed from what you would expect from a Republican.

Decidedly have no love for the GOP, but he was a politician in a time where the GOP was immensely different from what it is today, and the focus of the party was not overt bigotry and absolutism. Iirc, he was also talked about as a bit of a black sheep during the Bush Jr.-era GOP politics, but I might be misremembering things based on my own impressions from that time.

The GOP back then when Arnie joined was more socially progressive and actually fiscally conservative. This was the party that allowed more migrants in the 1980s, and courted Muslim voters in 2000 presidential election by tapping into the mostly immigrant Muslim's entrepreneurial spirit-- and it worked. I won't vote for any conservatives because I inherently disagree with them on economics and I am not religious, but 2000's GOP is the kind of conservative that I identify as conservative.

as an actor

Schwarzenegger may have had a very specific niche he fit within as an actor, but when he worked within that niche he was excellent. If you look at Conan the Barbarian, it should not have worked as a movie, and yet it absolutely does, and no small part of that is his acting. Dude can smolder stoically. Terminator, T2, Running Man, Total Recall, Predator, they're all excellent uses of his very specific type.

Then jump ahead to True Lies and Last Action Hero, where he's arguably at his height of fame, and he makes basically a couple of parodies of his acting persona, during a time when action heroes were largely taken much more seriously than they are today, and he nails both of those roles, too.

Sure, he's got a bad habit of trying to make movies he maybe shouldn't have, and yeah, he's always a huge muscly Austrian with a thick accent, but I think he might be the best Western action star who's ever lived.

As a person or a politician... ehh... could be a lot worse.

Something the hardline MAGA crowd definitely needed to heed.

Yeah, well, the people who need to hear it wont because of algos.

That's what no leaders seem to get. Twitter or YouTube is shouting into the void.

Not that I have a good solution for someone like him.

No but don't you understand? Criticizing the Israeli government for slaughtering Palestinians is anti-Semitic for... reasons.

While real antisemitism is also on the rise

I can label someone a sociopath for wearing red shoes, doesn't make them one.

Because he immigrated to the US after hearing a speech from Reagan and promptly went from having almost nothing to starting his own business and becoming a multi-millionaire before he got into acting. He's what the Republican party used to advertise itself as. He is to the Republican Party what Worf is to the Klingon Empire.

Iirc, I think I remember this speech of his. It was about magas and telling them to go the fuck home, shut the fuck up, and grow up. Basically trying to Daddy them and tell them to stop acting like the losers they are.

IIRC this is from quite a while ago, I’m not sure but it might even be from before 2016.

MAGA is losing, they haven't lost yet like the Nazis have.

Palestinians are semites too!

Given how much he reversed on after speaking with experts on other things when he was govenor, I think he could be convinced he isn't defending the right people if he talked to a 3rd party expert about it.