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Now that photos can search text, I looked up “Bruenig.” I only found 10 screenshots, that I tweeted about at the time, but a couple are doozies. Let’s start with maybe the canonical example of how her “leftism” coexisted with what I’ll call a soft forced birth position.
One of the difficulties with reciting the ways the Bruenigs suck shit is that a lot of it was on Twitter, and they would regularly delete all of their tweets to make it difficult to verify the ways they were awful outside of consulting some weird freaks who kept unsettling logs of screenshots.
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I like this one because it makes short work of the idea that she’s a great thinker.
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Defense of Susan Sarandon combined with a glee at the (false, as it turns out) prediction that Dems were going to get crushed in the midterms. Fun stuff.
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This one, you’ll note, is just “rotating villain” wearing a dress and saying “tee hee”
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This one makes me think so many things but I can’t really top wrapping it up with “ideally the lord”
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the number of people on the right who seem to have decided that the solution to people not voting for their policies is "just have a king lol" is pretty worrying
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I thought this was a "leftist" till the last line.
Her entire schtick is trying to pretend to be a leftist despite being an authoritarian trad-cath.
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She is def not a trad cath. Trad cath has a very specific meaning. As far as I know she doesn't want to repeal Vatican ii
Tbh, I don’t respect her or trad caths enough to learn the precise difference.
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If you're like "tee-hee I'd love it if the lord our God selected the head of state tee-hee and then banned abortion" I don't give a single shit about whether you agree or disagree that God speaks Latin in church. You're a trad-cath and I'm going to call you a trad-cath.
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I think in this context it means "Catholic Trad Wife" as opposed to your typical Protestant Trad Wife. Which would mean she's running a scam, since all the Trad Wife content providers are pretty much scamming their followers.
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ah. I think Ive heard the name, but I've never encountered her in the wild.
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need to learn to scroll to the top of threads I only see the middle of.
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It doesn't help that Bluesky's feed treats skeets and replies interchangeably.
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Some threads are best left snipped off at the middle.
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She's also kinda sorta socialist which makes her a weird mix of ideologies.
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She is! Just one of those leftists who have no ideology other than owning the libs
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Somehow making Plato Worse
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freshman philosophy students the world over said it couldn't be done, but the wise know: opinion columnists can make *anything* worse
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She's on to something. It's definitely not like we have a history of holy wars based on divine right to rule or anything.
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No no this is a completely new thing. Let her have this
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Look, if she were proposing letting women in lakes hand out swords to determine rulership, I'd give her a chance, but I've seen how this plays out.
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We keep holding elections and the lord keeps abstaining
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If God doesn’t vote for Biden she might as well be voting for Trump.
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Do they mean their chosen god? Automatically assuming monotheistic, single-religion/single sect state? Trial by battle, where the winner has been "chosen by god"?!
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I'd say fuck that bearer of a pair of X chromasomes (putative), but I also remember that Corporal Slater said to never put your cock in anyone crazier than you are. So...no. Consigning someone with serious mental illness to fuck her is cruel and inhumane.
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conveniently, it is genuinely unclear who between her and her husband is a worse person sometimes the universe works out as it should
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she is truly a suburban Fort Worth evangelical
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oh my god she went to the same HS as the guy who founded TOMS shoes
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Her father was an executive for General Dynamics, and Bell Textron too. Her whole backstory is peak 90’s GWB conservatism.
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"hatred is a source of warmth in my house"
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dfw is a Place that's for sure
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Loved working a contract (had to pay the rent) for General Dynamics, a company that makes destructive weapons, where I met people who wouldn’t say “G_IT” in case it maybe offended God
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Even worse, suburban Fort Worth Trad Cath convert.
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Hahahahahahahahaha, I KNEW I recognized this take. I had a friend at Baylor who got sucked into this same Catholic philosophy major monarchist brainworm phase, but the difference is that he actually grew out of it.
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You know, the divine right of kings to rule! Like The Founders Intended!
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Cmon, she said “ideally” the lord. She’s open to compromise.
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The lord like god or like the landed gentry?
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I think it's whichever owns the libs more
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adrian vermeule, but leftishly* *not actually leftishly
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while i’m getting mad: most people who support democracy think its indirect approach to justice is more likely to produce just outcomes? that’s been the entire thrust of the international postwar order? like even if you don’t agree it’s kind of hard to miss
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Not me hoss, I just find numbers being handwritten on little slips of paper to be inherently virtuous.
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she’s turning me into a Reddit atheist I can see it enveloping my skin like a symbiote
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Gawd I have not gone that far but eeeeek. The smugness burns. No wonder she had all those weird trad dudes in her mentions. Eeeeek.
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The reddit atheists are right and Yanks abhor them for the same reason they don't notice e.g. how fucked up the pledge of allegiance in schools is.