trump thread

[Ben]

as for AOC yes she did say things that are wrong and I find it hilarious that the right is falling on her like vultures while jacing off into their MAGA hats

she was absolutely correct when she said that when it comes to a politicians words the morals behind what they say are way more important than the strict factual accuracy of what they claim in freeform speech. fact-checking shouldn't even be this big important thing before policy is drafted anyway - that was one of the many pitfalls of media, going "uh Trump said mexicans are rapists but IS IT TRUE??" is missing the entire fucking forest of xenophobic rhetoric for the tree of what % of mexicans commit rape. it's also a form of arguing from pedantry which is a crowd pleaser on the right but also a blatant distraction tactic.

the morals of Trumpism are isolationism, xenophobia and reactionaryism. the morals of AOC are mild progressivism and uh I guess being hip with the kids. this should be the baseline of any reporting.

ok ok but decrying the need of "strict factual accuracy" when citing a plan to redirect funds from a nonexistant budget to free college just makes me mad, and im not "on the right". people can be annoyed at that and not be crowdpleased "on the right". id love free college, but if im gonna get my hopes up then i need to be sure that's actually possible and not a made up fairytale for internet points