Seth Abramson

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Actually the more I think about it the more I think that my interview with Russell Brand may have been the last interview I gave before retiring from giving interviews Huh — PolitiTweet.org

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Feeling saucy today not sure if that was clear — PolitiTweet.org

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@Woozle_Taffy Sure, but candidly I like listening to him too as long as I am not expecting to learn anything — PolitiTweet.org

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In other words Russell is sort of the perfect MAGA celebrity because he speaks well enough, has some charisma, has mastered a very small number of appealing rhetorical flourishes and knows f***-all about anything he’s talking about at any given moment — PolitiTweet.org

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FUN FACT: I’ve been interviewed by Russell Brand and the video’s still out there Smart and funny guy who literally knows not the first thing about U.S. politics and beyond some actually very reasonable-sounding platitudes would not be able to explain or detail anything to anyone — PolitiTweet.org

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Other than that I don’t have much of an opinion on this — PolitiTweet.org

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There will never be any Jew or outgrowth of Judaism as a religion that’s even 1/1000th as anti-Christian as MAGAism is. Trump—who would use a Bible as toilet paper if he only had two-ply to hand otherwise—is as grave a threat to Christianity as American Christians have ever seen. — PolitiTweet.org

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I love earnestly devout Christians, though I’m not religious myself. But I don’t respect those who *claim* to be religious while simultaneously undercutting and lying about the tenets of the very faith to which they say they belong. It’s so morally shabby I find it reprehensible. — PolitiTweet.org

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So fake MAGA Christians encounter folks who love and/or admire Jesus as a figure—whether one deems him religious, historical or literary—and whether those Jesus-admirers are Jewish or Christian or Muslim, the MAGAs feel “seen” in their fraudulence and hereticism and thus “hated.” — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s no connection whatsoever between MAGAism and Christianity, unless you call an inverse relationship a “connection.” The whole purpose of MAGAism is to get waffling Christians to follow antichrist-like figures whose every word is heretical, false, and deeply anti-Christian. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s a refrain among white supremacist MAGAs to say that Jews hate Christians. I haven’t been a practicing Jew for 3 decades, but I understand the MAGAs’ confusion: Every Jew I know deeply admires the New Testament and the Biblical Jesus but has big issues with *fake* Christians. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s a leading Biblical scholar, Dr. Dan McClellan, on Jordan Peterson’s attempt to *lecture the Pope*—yes, MAGA celebs claim to know more about Jesus than the Pope. Dr. McClellan makes short work of Peterson. Please share with any fake Christian MAGAs. https://t.co/ece86gf2C6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@YukahuGames @matthughson Lol, well said! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Or maybe these FBI witnesses *can* prove the political weaponization of the FBI... ...just in the *opposite political di… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: ICYMI: Trump Political Agent Kash Patel Is Paying the FBI Witnesses Trump Ally Jim Jordan Falsely Says Can Prove Politica… — PolitiTweet.org

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@matthughson I wonder if there is any NES game that creates a waterfall of enemies you have to jump through at just the right moment? 😁 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AndrewCurran_: Tyrion Lannister debates Sam Altman over AI safety. Things take a scary turn when Tyrion decides he wants to discuss GPT… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: Democrats must understand that the response of MAGA voters to being lied to—whether it’s by Trump, Steve Bannon, Jack Pos… — PolitiTweet.org

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PS/ Thank you to @EsMuerto3 for this image, which so perfectly sums up everything I’ve said here that I wish I’d had it before I started this thread so that I could situate it as a sort of iconic image atop the thread rather than posting it here as a useful summarizing postscript https://t.co/Mc7InykE5q — PolitiTweet.org

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So I realize all this will seem to some a weird 7-10 split of perspectives but my hope is that none of it will be surprising to those who’ve been reading my Twitter feed for 8 years now and that it will operate in its totality as an explanation for how I function and write online — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m also categorically against any violence, never wish for physical harm to come to any MAGA, continue to hold out hope that the children of MAGAs will somehow find a way to excise the rot in their upbringing, and refuse to pretend a profoundly flawed Democratic Party is perfect — PolitiTweet.org

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To me, being involved in political journalism is about everything MAGAs are not and/or lack: honesty, honor, courage, integrity, a willingness to break from conventional wisdom, accuracy, research, being unwilling to accept being lied to or play nice with would-be authoritarians — PolitiTweet.org

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OTOH, I’m also *permanently committed* to *not lying* about what MAGA leaders are doing to both them and to America—and I research everything I write to within an inch of its life to ensure that when I am relaying facts about MAGAism rather than my opinions they are 100% accurate — PolitiTweet.org

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The upshot: I want these people to understand that I don’t even have the most basic respect for them They are total nonentities to me, as they represent everything I think makes a human being shameful and sad But I do appreciate their messages just so I know who to instablock — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, I figured I’d do a thread explaining how I feel about MAGA rather than responding individually to anyone saying I a) should be put in an oven or turned into furniture, b) am mentally ill, or c) am a soy-drinking sissy, the only 3 things you hear from MAGAs if you’re a Jew — PolitiTweet.org

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I have a lot of beefs with the extreme left of my party—I’ve criticized antifa repeatedly as well as the most silly overreaches of the cultural far-left—but I can live with 5% of my party being groanworthy, whereas I could *never* deal with 100% of MAGA being straight-up pathetic — PolitiTweet.org

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This thread will trigger a large number of MAGAs, because—consistent with everything I’ve said here—there are actually no Americans more easily triggered than MAGAs, they just respond with increasingly desperate attempts to convince you they're *not* triggered But they *so* are — PolitiTweet.org

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I block and don’t engage with MAGAs, but my message would be grow up, grow a spine, stop your sniveling emotional tantrums over how angry you are at your sad life, and start taking *responsibility* for making it better, starting with kicking the charlatans leading you to the curb — PolitiTweet.org

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Many politicians lie, including Democrats; many journalists lie, including left-leaning ones; but far-right politicians and journalists categorically lie the most, indeed whole orders of magnitude more MAGAs lacking the courage and moral fortitude to accept it is what sickens me — PolitiTweet.org

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So when Posobiec sends his sad little minions over to my feed to troll and threaten me, the overwhelming feeling I get is one of sadness for these people so desperate to direct attention away from their own cowardice and self-pity that they’re constantly puffing up their chests — PolitiTweet.org