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Sometimes it's better to let a shit tree grow than to shake the shit fruit out of it. -idk Ramaswamy probably
“Classist racists travel across the ocean, birth classist racist to spread classism and racism. Are shocked to find classism and racism.”
To be fair, it's an unsourced quote from The Daily Hatemail, so odds are that she never said it.
To be even more fair, though, it's probably accurate whether or not that bigot ever said it out loud.
She did say it and its on video. Vivek himself posted the clip on his twitter saying "I disagree with her but respect that she had the guts to speak her mind" How embarassing.
Wow, what a pathetic Uncle Tom, or whatever the Indian equivalent is 🤦
whatever the Indian equivalent is
Uncle Vivek
Normally that's not really an accusation anonymous people should use on the Internet, but the man's so cringingly servile I don't think anyone can deny the accuracy.
He loves money. Republican "donors" have it. People like him will tolerate almost anything for more money.
He just nods along to her rascist bs. Half a little self-respect man.
If he had self-respect he would lose the little (R) next to his name, and we can’t have that now can we?
It's ideology over identity with these people. Always and infallibly.
People literally suck Greek dick for money
Nodding along hardly seems like the worst way to go about things
He clearly has no personal convictions. He acts entirely like someone who is working a job, and that job is to help Trump get elected.
I’m slightly ashamed to admit it but I actually went fishing for the most clickbaity headline on this story to post to this community. It’s not just a right wing rag talking about it, they just had the most oniony headline
Perfectly understandable, given the circumstances 😄
My profile says I’ve made 2.2k posts and I’m pretty sure this is the first Daily Mail link lol. Why can’t normal people write terrible headlines??
Why can’t normal people write terrible headlines??
Scruples.
To be fair... I hate so and so as much as the next guy, but...
It's literally on video.
People still care what Ann Coulter thinks about anything?
Not only that. People think her racist hate speech should be protected under the First Amendment.
The First Amendment means the government can't punish you for speech. That's a good rule, and yes it means that even deplorable speech shouldn't be punished by the government. Because "deplorable" speech at various times in American history could have meant anti-slavery speech, pro-lgbt speech, anti-war speech, etc.
I’m as far left as left goes, but yes even her vile drivel is protected by the first amendment. That’s the whole point.
Oh yes.
I'm guessing you also think that, in order for free enterprise to exist, we have to allow American companies to pollute rivers at will too.
Makes total sense.
Free speech is not an absolute right under the law and absolutely should not be. There are innumerable examples why. Try threatening a judge if you think otherwise.
Inventing a scenario that I don’t agree with and claiming that I do agree with it. Classic.
I’m guessing you also think that, in order for hate speech to be stopped, we have to allow puppies to be slaughtered en masse. Puppy murderer!
I'm just accurately recharacterizing your assertion here.
Clearly freedom can't exist unless we tolerate its worst excesses.
That's what you're saying, though I don't think allowing fascist and Nazi speech is analogous to the argument the free speech needs to exist for the assholes. Being a Nazi and a fascist is a terrorist act, not "being an asshole". An asshole pisses in the river. A Nazi is the American corporation dumping waste in the river en masse.
Never mind that we can look across the pond at Germany and see quite clearly that freedom of expression can exist alongside a ban on fascist and Nazi speech.
The US Republican Party went so far to the political right, they're in all seriousness neo-nazis now, not conservatives.
You say that as if this sort of shit hasn't been what conservatism was always really about.
Conservatives were the people who defended King George. They have no business waving an American flag. Benedict Arnold was a conservative.
"Conservatives" is a misnomer here. "Conservative" isn't right and "Progressive" isn't left.
Conservatives are those who want as little change as possible so as to "not rock the boat" and "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Progressives are those who want to try out new policies.
From what I gather, a large portion of today's Republicans aren't actually conservatives rather regressive. That's almost literally what "make America great again" means. That's also the meaning of, for example, the Roe v. Wade overruling - going back to an earlier state.
Also, in the long run the human condition generally changes for the better (Or at least that's what we perceive as our values and habits are usually aligned with what we have now and not what we had before). As the status quo changes, the things conservatives (and progressives) value change accordingly.
Saying "Conservatives were the people who defended King George." as if that has anything to do with conservative today is like someone saying "Progressives on the 18th century were for women's suffrage, they have no business talking about equality".
I mean, that seems right on brand
To use pro-wrestling terminology, this is an obvious "work."
The goal of this setup is to continue to shore Ramaswamy up as one of the "good Republicans" so that those people who still identify as Republicans but who also consider themselves "one of the good Republicans, small government yadda yadda, not one of those bigoted ones!" and are at risk of leaving the party over its overarching fascism can latch onto him in this interview and still keep that R after their names. Meanwhile, the Republicans who agree with Coulter can cheer for her side of this.
The Republican party is more and more openly nazi every day. Stunts like this - including the whole phenomenon of Ramaswamy as their "look we're not racist, we have an Indian friend!" token - are to keep the party's numbers bulked up with enough unsuspecting "decent" people to empower the nazis at the top continue to nazi in all their names.
So nice that, now that I no longer use Twitter, I don't generally have to hear Ann Coulter's bullshit.
Oh, so she's an 'author' now? I thought she was just a serial shitposter.
Probably going easy on her since Daily Mail is a right wing rag but she does write ig.
Yep, that was hard to watch. Then Ramaswamy just being like "Oh, I respect that you can say that" or some shit
Shut up bird
Racist gonna racist.
Not high enough on the Aryan-o-meter for Coulter.
Genuinely, lmao