The vast majority of pieces like this could more usefully be reframed as “why would I personally have found this odious racist autocrat perfectly charming at a cocktail party 18 months ago?”
But nobody wants to plumb those particular depths.
Funny no face of color in there? Is America only accepting white refugees these days? Really odd? One would think it is racist. It can be though? Not the land of the free? Or is it the white free?
Actually likely not. After all, money and influence are the coins of the realm in DC and thus especially sought by a ronin looking to book billable hours. @dicknixon.bsky.social
"We have finally invented the Landau-Leap-Drive. The good news is, it can get us to the stars. The bad news is, it is powered by racism, so all the star people told us to fuck off."
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But nobody wants to plumb those particular depths.