yeah I imagine a left candidate even just saying the word Venezuela is enough for two days of news cycle
I had a talk with Tyler about Gabbard because
1) she was ruthless about being anti-LGBT, this isn't a cringe "marriage is between man and woman" clinton-kind of soft-speech no, she was all-out calling activists violent radicals etc. Now I know people change but this was in 2004... and she says she changed by being deployed and being face-to-face with similar hate in other parts of the world but still it was waay to late to act blissfully ignorant. Her supporters say that she was both young and still under the influence of religious orthodoxy. And she has since done enough to earn the support of LGBT orgs and has issued an apology https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/1...ts-1109541 BUT I'm still suspicious because politicians are going to be political and I'm still not sure I fully trust her change (so I agree with you)
2) her statements on international conflict though, they're against liberal grain which is huge. being pro-assad?? goddamn if I don't know just enough trotskites that defended the US in Syria to pack a room, and we all know what the democratic voter base thinks of "dictators" around the world, so I can't imagine this sort of stance is making her many friends. it's what makes me like her a lot, and the idea of the USA having a president that OPPOSES meddling in other countries is incredible to me
I had a talk with Tyler about Gabbard because
1) she was ruthless about being anti-LGBT, this isn't a cringe "marriage is between man and woman" clinton-kind of soft-speech no, she was all-out calling activists violent radicals etc. Now I know people change but this was in 2004... and she says she changed by being deployed and being face-to-face with similar hate in other parts of the world but still it was waay to late to act blissfully ignorant. Her supporters say that she was both young and still under the influence of religious orthodoxy. And she has since done enough to earn the support of LGBT orgs and has issued an apology https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/1...ts-1109541 BUT I'm still suspicious because politicians are going to be political and I'm still not sure I fully trust her change (so I agree with you)
2) her statements on international conflict though, they're against liberal grain which is huge. being pro-assad?? goddamn if I don't know just enough trotskites that defended the US in Syria to pack a room, and we all know what the democratic voter base thinks of "dictators" around the world, so I can't imagine this sort of stance is making her many friends. it's what makes me like her a lot, and the idea of the USA having a president that OPPOSES meddling in other countries is incredible to me
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