Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
A woman gained popularity in the online right-wing space by pushing back hard against Metoo. She then hung out with Andrew Tate and got raped and assaulted.
We’ve got to be able to recognize the excesses of certain movements without championing actual bad guys, or downplaying how bad they actually are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyXbhsrb4Rs
Tucker Carlson had Andrew Tate on and acted like criticism of him was all about wokeness and people being anti-man and censoring, and Tucker even said that it’s not like he was accused of rape or selling anyone or pimping, when he had been! Tucker didn’t even do basic research on his guest and said false things about him.
Tucker had a soft interview acting like Tate’s message was just about traditional masculinity, when Tate advocated women being simple-minded lesser humans who should be used, and advocated manipulating them into online sexwork where the man keeps most of the money. Tucker didn’t do basic research into what his guest was advocating and mislead his audience about Tate’s message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrMaemo7bMk
Trump has a long history of defending accused sex predators. He doesn’t just defend them in an innocent until proven guilty sort of way, but says people should vote for them* and insults the accusers. He vigorously defends the accused as if he knows they must be innocent.
*if they were running for office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPs1UCvD3p0
Is Elon Musk a narcissist obsessed with impregnating many women with his seed and creating offspring who he sees as his superior legion of humans? Elon doesn’t seem to help take care of the children he is producing.
The demographic crisis is real, and Americans do need to have more children, but that doesn’t mean Elon isn’t a big-headed narcissist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7bzw8_MJpA
“Kamala Harris lost the presidential election and Democrats lost control of the Senate.
But when you zoom in on the details of that result, there’s a striking pattern: Democratic Senate candidates are outperforming Harris. Or, put another way, Republican Senate candidates are doing worse than Trump.
In recent years, the outcome of a state’s US Senate race has increasingly matched the outcome of its simultaneous presidential race. Ticket-splitting has decreased in our era of polarization and partisanship. The vast majority of people voting for a presidential candidate also vote for their party’s Senate candidate.
But not everyone does that. And there’s still some variation in how much better or worse Senate candidates do compared to the top of the ticket. Looking at that variation can provide clues about what sorts of candidates overperform (even if they don’t actually win).”
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“Some might argue for racism or sexism explaining Harris’s struggles, but I’d note that several of the Democratic candidates who overperformed Harris were nonwhite or female. Others might argue that she was a uniquely flawed candidate or campaigner, but President Joe Biden was on track to do much worse if he’d stayed in the race.
My suspicion is that Harris’s electoral struggles were more about Biden’s unpopularity and her association with his administration than any newfound love of the American public for the Republican Party generally.”
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“Call them the “I don’t like Republicans much, but the economy was better under Trump” voters. Biden lost them, and Harris failed to get them back.”
https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/383197/kamala-harris-results-underperformed-democratic-senate-candidates
“Because white women can be both oppressors and oppressed, Karen is a scissor. Does the word describe a particular type of behavior that resonates because of the particular racial history of the United States? Yes. Is that the only way it is used? No.”