Thing is, you can legit criticize Fauci for his bad communication on masking in the early days of COVID! But it’s not gonna land b/c the anti-mask/vax/etc crowd also hate Fauci for the most deranged reasons

Word of advice to the press: Stop 👏 giving 👏 natalists 👏 free 👏 platforms 👏

Oh hey I remember these guys from Trashfuture

Check out the unhinged classism from one of the lesser figures who’s popped up here from time-to-time (with an added bonus shout-out to Ayn Rand further down the thread)

Dem pundits go on media tour to hawk their latest rehash of supply-side econ - and decide to break bread with infamous anti-woke “ex” race realist Richard Hanania

A quick sample of people rushing to defend this:

• Some guy with the same last name as a former Google CEO who keeps spamming the same article about IQ
• Our good friend Tracy

Reminds me of this gem from Ezra a few years back about the politics of fear (buddy, you bought into the politics of fear with your support for the Iraq War)

If they’re gonna fearmonger can they at least be creative about it?!?! Everyone’s just dusting off the mothballed plans to Quote-Unquote “confront” Chy-na after a quarter-century detour of fucking up the Middle East (moreso than the US has done in the past)