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Originally Posted by simplicitus
They put out a tweet saying he was suspended and they're looking into it. PSA did a great job fundraising and activating people and, I think, went 7/8 in their campaign to flip CA districts. Why do liberals always want to throw their side under the bus. It's the literal opposite of what conservatives do.
Oh I can answer this one. In this case, Crooked Media employs some NeverTrump stooge who took a bunch of money from Facebook (an increasingly destructive political force) to spread a bunch of anti-Semitic **** in order to defame Facebook's critics.
So, I would throw the Crooked Media owners under the bus for being being entirely principle free and co-opted by big tech/capital interests, an entirely symbolic episode of *why* liberals fail time and again to beat back the worst influences in American political culture, or minimally having poor judgement hiring deplorables who do the poisonous subterfuge propaganda work that corrupts the American polity.
I don't want to throw liberals under the bus as a reflex but surely you agree if you say own a business, you are responsible for the people you hire, right? If Tim Miller sexually assaulted an intern, would you just be like "oh well, 7/8 in their campaigns to flip districts!" Probably not, right? Why are they not responsible then for propping up Tim Miller as your friendly neighborhood Republican chit chat buddy when he actually moonlights as some ****ing ghoul that exploits anti-Semitic sentiments to protect corporate oligarchs?
Your never going to get out of this garbage political culture if you don't hold your allies accountable for their ****ty behavior. Be mindful not to fall for right-wing concern trolling traps but this one seems like not that, in fact seems like a pretty open-and-shut case of "prominent liberals invite garbage Republicans on to be their buddys to present themselves as broad-minded non-partisans, which right-wingers exploit, and launder their ghoul stuff for mainstream credibility," and it's not clear why PSA does this aside from "oh I had no idea a Republican operative would do racism for money, incredible" raised by wolves shtick reasons.
You are not going to find a professional Republican who does not do racism ghoul **** because the entire movement is only animated by racism ghoul ****, it's like trying to find a prude porn star, it's a contradiction from the start, so if you insist on caping for Republican operatives and inviting them on your show to be your beer drinking iconoclast friend, you are by necessity bringing on someone who is paid to rile up racist idiots with racism, there is no one with literally any political savvy who can credibly deny this, so yeah I mean I think these PSA dudes have something to answer for here.
Maybe, AT BEST, they are in fact figuratively raised by wolves and just that naive, which sort of undermines their brand as savvy political commentators, turns out maybe they're ****ing dip ****s, literally 95% of 2p2ers INCLUDING the hapless deplorables would probably bet on "yeah actually I bet Tim Miller's professional obligations involve a ****ton of racist propaganda," so I think the best I can interpretation I can have for the Crooked Media guys is that they are somehow even less discerning than the average dumbass here.
Last edited by DVaut1; 11-16-2018 at 07:03 AM.