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9. I am starting to find a certain utility in Vance
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 10:50 AM
Friday

In an imperfect world you can still rely on Vance to be predictably pro-Nazi on any given day.

When I saw a story I am posting below, what struck me is how even I have thought a totally different version of these things..I was never a fan of internet mobs. I think allowing for genuine redemption is a big part of being a lefty. I don’t like meanness towards and mockery of an opponent (especially a defeated one in a bad position).

If I can be, I am very minimalist in conflict (as long as the stream of consciousness inside my head is not fracked out. And really even there, an attack of diarrhea is usually the worst I wish on anyone and that mainly the admins at my last job. They probably have chronic diarrhea anyway making it all kinda redundant).

I am of the opinion that an eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. And as a whatever far left blah blah still, I still never like internet conflict bs etc for complicated lefty anti-violence etc reasons that aren’t easy to explain.

But where Vance and I differ is the context or people or messages it applies to. These are not randos. They are people who make serious public policy decisions. It reminds me of that judge in that Stanford rape case.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/jd-vance/vance-young-republicans-racism-lives-ruined-rcna237838

This is fucking awful:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

These are not comics making ott jokes or the internet pile on stuff.


I thought a neo-nazi adjacent influencer calling him a “fat-ass with a biracial family” might knock some sense into Vance.
Nope.

This guy is a dick sure. But he is also a complete fucking idiot.
And he is a reliable compass at all times.

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