Samuel Charles Rafuse

The “I want X but not via fantasy” is too sharp, Boots, you’re gonna hurt someone ;)

I do not get why we still have to take him seriously. He has no intentions of ever helping anyone. This is a “fuck you” revenge fantasy for losing in 2020. It’s a grift, he just wants to make you have to do what he says. Nothing more.

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

Watching THE SOCIAL NETWORK again today is scary how prophetic it was in unpacking the mentality of the billionaire class but it really highlights something -- we still haven't really caught up to the rupture in society/culture that Facebook caused. We need a generational handoff in politics.