the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
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Pure
masturbation. This is just the "white man's burden" of false humility. Add an unwaranted victim complex for good measure.
This person claims to be a Marxist, but is operating on 40k Ork logic, openly admitting to projecting their idealist hopes onto reality. He admits Kamala is lying, and yet he is trying to pretend the status quo of pre-2016 is fine, and that "normalcy" is desirable! Absurd.
Edit: added "But it is a lie." I personally believe it to be redundant, but it can be seen as misleading to not include it. My point is that the author knows Kamala is lying and it won't get better but hopes for it anyways.
Haven't gotten around to trying to really read this article in full but it looks like you've got a pretty serious misquote.
That last paragraph you quote, which is at the end of the article, is followed by a single sentence given its own paragraph. So it actually reads as follows:
Emphasis mine.
So he's not saying it'll actually happen. Of all things he's rejecting the "40k Ork logic" that you're trying to pin on him. It sounds more like he's lamenting that 'If Democrats weren't lying, maybe Kamala Harris winning would lead to better circumstances, but they are lying.'
Cutrone has had some completely garbage takes (e.g. Palestine) but we don't need to stoop to the level of misreading him so carelessly. That benefits no one.
That's a fair point, but that's the article as I understand it. Maybe I read it wrong, but he spends the entire time acknowledging it to be a lie, that's why I said he admits Kamala is lying. He is at one step rejecting it, and the other embracing it. I think the issue here is a disconnect on what I meant and how you interpreted it, I probably could have worded my point better. Thank you for pointing that out.
Emphasis mine.
This is more or less what I'm saying. He writes this as he wishes it to be, he says he wants Kamala to win so he's no longer a target and hopes everything gets better, even if he knows better. That's the 40k Ork logic at work.
That being said, I'll add the final "but it is a lie." I left it out because I believed it to be redundant, but for transparency I'll include it.