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conservative vs progressive. America is liberal in the classical sense. freedom to do what we want to the degree that it doesn't impact others, and support for reason and dialogue to figure out compromises where our lives overlap.

I don't like calling them weird cause weird is cool. there is no good term cause their movement flexes to whatever positions serve one strange man in the moment. they are at times libertarian, then authoritarian. puritan biker culture. totally incoherent.

@gruber I'm really glad "weird" is *finally* taking off because it's completely disarming.

It's an amazing opening to knock down the "we're just protecting [ whatever ]" facade, and point out that these things are actually just creepy obsessions that always somehow amount to either telling people how to live or scaring people.

@gruber “live and let live”…unless they’re Palestinians, in which case America can butt in, supply weapons to Israel, which are then used to bomb them.

Based on history, America’s sentiment is ‘Kill (Iraq etc) and let kill (Israel)”

@gruber

if we got back to MYOB about half of our problems right now would disappear

republicans are creepy

@gruber The weird attack works because people don't want just to live and let live, they want to live and be accepted.

Weird means you don't belong, which has been an unfortunate sentiment felt by many.

But tactically in the short term this may be effective as a reframing technique.

@gruber completely agree.

These weirdos act like it’s a national crisis when some eighth grader wants to be called Sam instead of Samantha, and it is absolutely not their business.

Like damn, leave people alone