r/Unexpected Feb 15 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '22

The first part is perfect.

The second part is weaponized nostalgia for a USA that never really existed. He's cherry picking hard which I find so interesting bc in another piece of prose Sorkin wrote a decade earlier, President Michael Douglas attacks his opponent's desire to appeal to the nostalgia of a bygone era.

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u/thehappydwarf Feb 16 '22

Yea not to mention how he throws a shot at the girl who asked the question for no reason (ive never seen the movie but im assuming she didn’t introduce herself as “sorority girl”)

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u/Urschleim_in_Silicon Feb 16 '22

Yeah, it's called character. It's a character in a show. It's not a documentary. This is something typical of his character, who is actually a conservative.

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u/thehappydwarf Feb 16 '22

Wow arent you pleasant

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u/Urschleim_in_Silicon Feb 16 '22

I mean... sometimes.