New York Times gift articles

Yes it's bait and yes it's a dog whistle and yes it's a call and acknowledgement to their facsist supporters.

And it STILL doesn't really matter.

Here's one story that's already getting buried that's obviously far more important - Trump pardoning 1500 Jan 6 rioters. That's 1500 people who stormed the Capital, at Trump's urging, with the explicit stated goal of "stop(ping) the steal," which is to say, using whatever means might serve, clearly including violence for which they were not coincidentally already equipped, to prevent the Congress from carrying out its sworn duty in accordance with the Constitution and the law of the land.

No matter how you look at it, that's a FAR more grave threat to the US than a cringe manchild throwing a few sieg heils.

And that alarm was listened to by the same people who already believe he's a nazi, convinces and mobilizes zero people and makes the majority of voters who voted for trump even less likely to listen to us when someone isn't just making a stupid salute but actually doing dangerous shit that actually harms people.

I get that for spoiled mostly white kids online, life will pretty much go on and nothing that bad will happen. But to those of us who actually understand the potential harm, we also underground that how we react matters more than what feels good or is easy, like screaming nazi.

He won the popular vote.

We can quibble about "okay but that doesn't include those who didn't vote!" Which is a pretty dumb argument.

But I could rephrase "of the people who cared enough about politics to be relevant to this discussion, more than half the country..."

In the same way I didn't say I was only counting living people, some things seem pretty obvious.