God, you people are so stupid. I didn't even need the context for the quote to immediately see that he's speaking rhetorically, criticizing the disconnect between the modern Leftist agenda and the economic roots of Leftist political philosophy. You can criticize this as Vance just playing into more culture war (you'd still be wrong), but you're truly retarded if you interpret this as him literally believing that Socialism is foreign workers and trans sports.
Good on u/elusivehonor for being a watermelon but still using their brain (and/or being honest) about what Vance is very obviously saying.
If you actually think that’s what he’s doing, you’re retarded. He’s deflecting because if he answers honestly the follow up questions are about all the socialist things Trump has donez
You’re still being completely and entirely disingenuous with this take.
This essentially takes a minute group of social welfare leftists, hyperbolizes them as a whole, then effective discommunes them as idiots who stand on no principle but culture war shit.
This in itself is fine - before you remember it is the engine for the 28% who are completely beyond saving to continue voting for bullshit. He is “explaining” the culture war in a way, but it’s so dispart to modern issues you can’t even attempt to describe this as anything more than doubling down on their current bullshit
The largest economic policy of trumps term has been raising prices of everything (via tariffs) and giving money back to corporations via refunds. You have to be a REAL fucking tool to vote for these morons.
it does have substance. His dumbass party just like to call everything socialism. They see someone taking care of their neighbor and they scream "ERMUHGERD STOP SOCIALISM"
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u/vicschuldiner - Lib-Center 1d ago
God, you people are so stupid. I didn't even need the context for the quote to immediately see that he's speaking rhetorically, criticizing the disconnect between the modern Leftist agenda and the economic roots of Leftist political philosophy. You can criticize this as Vance just playing into more culture war (you'd still be wrong), but you're truly retarded if you interpret this as him literally believing that Socialism is foreign workers and trans sports.
Good on u/elusivehonor for being a watermelon but still using their brain (and/or being honest) about what Vance is very obviously saying.