2y ago

Ramaswamy doubles down on calling Pressley part of ‘modern KKK’

www.politico.com

GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy did not back down Sunday when questioned about comments he made during a campaign stop in Iowa Friday, calling Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) part of the “modern KKK.”

“I stand by what I said to provoke an open and honest discussion in this country,” Ramaswamy said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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- For one simple and depressing reason - people click on it. That’s the dopamine button for modern media outlets online; those clicks are the cash register ringing.
  If you want to figure out a way to elevate the discourse you have to disrupt the payment model - at the end of the day people do what gets them paid. Doubly so when the harm it causes is anonymized by operating in corporate aggregates.
  
  Underrated comment. Can’t upvote more.
- I think you answered your own question. He’s playing the Trump bit. Saying extreme things to get news headlines and people talking about him. And it’s working to some extent.
- Because the media learned nothing from trump
  
  Or worse, they learned that a bigoted blowhard is good for ratings.
- Best response is to down vote and ignore it.
  
  Yeah I'll start doing that, and start saying to people that talk about that you don't care. It's annoying how predictable we are as humans sometimes
- People and the media didn’t learn from trump that they should not feed the crazy
  
  media didn’t learn
  Oh they learned alright. They do this not because they didn’t learn their lesson but because they did. Actual journalism and reporting is ALWAYS second to shit articles that are wrong in order to be the first one out the door, click bait the article title, showcase the fascists for the rage bait, etc.
  They exist to make money and so the lessons learned revolve solely around finance. Whey would they learn anything else? This shit is working for them
This little shit is so smarmy.
- I can't stop calling him Ramasmarmy! Every time I see that asshole grin on his face.
  
  I was going with Ramaslimy, but I might like smarmy better.
  
  I like it! I'll probably end up doing the same now lol.
- You conveniently left out what immediately followed that quote in the article:
  But on Sunday, Ramaswamy did not back down when he was repeatedly questioned about the comparison by Bash.
  “I think it is the same spirit to say that I can look at you and based on just your skin color, that I know something about the content of your character, that I know something about the content of the viewpoints you’re allowed to express,” Ramaswamy said, calling the rhetoric “divisive.”
Every attack is a confession
What Pressley said has nothing to do with the KKK.
This guy is fast proving he’s just a male MTG: shock jock politician trying bait reasonable people into engaging him and legitimizing him.
And of course, the news outlets will spread every provocative thing he says far and wide for clicks.
Fuck everything.
He's just calling Pressley a poser because the OG KKK votes Republican.
It is so weird watching national politics being conducted in terms more fitting to a playground argument. And not just in the US, we're getting a lot of it in the UK too. And I'm assuming it is similar everywhere the fash and their fellow travellers have gained some kind of platform in national politics.
There were never "grown ups" in charge. But I miss them at least pretending to be serious. Or maybe it's better that they're so laughably bad, instead of cloaking equally dire arguments in more convincing rhetoric?
Why does anyone care what this clown has to say? He’s irrelevant. Just ignore his bullshit and don’t let him get to you.
Useless babies whining about each other. What is this the GOP? Embarrassing.
All these people have dinner with and fuck each other behind the scenes while they entertain us with bullshit attacks toward each other.

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