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A look into the alt-right
Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform).
My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'"
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On September 21 2016 12:33 hunts wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 12:29 xDaunt wrote:On September 21 2016 12:19 Nyxisto wrote:On September 21 2016 12:07 xDaunt wrote:
Y'all are too hyperbolic. Hitler himself could win the presidency and he still wouldn't be able to get much shit done. Have more faith in the institutions. "my candidate is so bad that I need to remind myself of the fact that the checks & balances exist to stop him while endorsing him" do you regularly order the shittiest thing on the menu just because you know that the toilet is nearby? I don't think Trump is that bad. I just think that there's minimal risk in electing him even if I'm wrong on that point. We just went through eight years of having a rabidly liberal president get basically nothing done agenda-wise. If you judge him on what he ran on in 2008 and compare it to what he actually has accomplished, Obama is an utter failure. Thus when I see the Plansix's of the world talk about how mean daddy Trump will FUBAR this country if elected, I can't help but laugh. dubya was both less stupid and less evil than trump, and he basically bent our country over a barrel and tanked our economy our global influence and the whole world's opinion of us.
xDaunt was a dubya supporter so he doesn't think dubya was that bad  .
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On September 21 2016 12:39 Slaughter wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 12:07 xDaunt wrote:
Y'all are too hyperbolic. Hitler himself could win the presidency and he still wouldn't be able to get much shit done. Have more faith in the institutions. Like Congress?
That thing that has lower approval ratings than ebola and has done nothing of substance for 6 years. The spinless Republicans are going to stop Trump, just like they stopped Bush. It wasn't like Bush created a secret warrant-less spying program that completely bypassed congress and lied to senate oversight members when he did it. Oh wait, that is exactly what happened all the way up until 2008 when they started to reign it in. And that congress was way more functional than the current one.
But sure, I should have faith in congress to stop the breitbart administration.
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If there's somewhere I can bet on Mark Cuban running in 2020 I would like to do so.
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On September 21 2016 12:26 a_flayer wrote:
At this point, I'm sort of hoping Trump wins and tanks the US into such a deep pit of depression it no longer capable of projecting its power throughout the world.
Can't wait to see what europe has to cut to fund having a millitary not propped up by the USA
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On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Show nested quote +Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). Show nested quote +My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source
Its not his fault. He just writes articles about people and then the same thing happens to every single one of them. He can't help it if his supporters do that over and over and over and over. He can't be held responsible and shouldn't be.
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On September 21 2016 12:49 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source Its not his fault. He just writes articles about people and then the same thing happens to every single one of them. He can't help it if his supporters do that over and over and over and over. He can't be held responsible and shouldn't be.
its just a correlation and as we all know from intro stats correlation =/= causation
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On September 21 2016 12:35 Nebuchad wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 12:27 Amarok wrote:On September 21 2016 12:05 Nebuchad wrote:
Change is happening anyway. The next generation is way too progressive for the parties to stand as they are and hope for any success. Eight years from now Clinton+ can't beat Sanders+, and it's not even super close. That's pretty misleading. People naturally become more conservative as they get older. The "old" people that are now supporting Trump were all peace, drugs and free love in the 70s. There's no reason to believe current generations won't become more conservative in their thinking as time goes on. I highly doubt many Trump supporters were hippies in the 70s, and I think you're fooling yourself if you think all generations function the same politically. Sanders wouldn't have scored like this with young people in the 1970s or in the 1990s, the growth of progressivism is quite new. And given that a lot of these young people believe their positions stem from being a lot more informed than the older generations (for the purpose of this discussion, I don't need to analyze whether it's true or not, which is why I just wrote "perceive" here), due to internet being their source as opposed to traditional media, I see no reason to think they'll change their mind as a group any time soon.
http://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-do-we-become-more-conservative-with-age-47910
I'm not fooling myself at all. Personal circumstances absolutely shape people's political outlook and people in their 20s have different goals, values and circumstances to people in their 40s and over. Why wouldn't their politics be subject to change given how much of their lives will change? Older people have children, careers and a greater capacity for self reliance than younger people, of course they're going to have different political viewpoints.
In my view the rise of the fringes of both sides of politics (Sanders/Trump) has more to do with the increasing role of the internet (a tool that fragments and divides) in our society and the modern media's addiction to outrage as a revenue stream. If there really was a rising tide of progressivism you wouldn't have the same rush to the fringe occurring on the other side of politics.
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On September 21 2016 13:01 Amarok wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 12:35 Nebuchad wrote:On September 21 2016 12:27 Amarok wrote:On September 21 2016 12:05 Nebuchad wrote:
Change is happening anyway. The next generation is way too progressive for the parties to stand as they are and hope for any success. Eight years from now Clinton+ can't beat Sanders+, and it's not even super close. That's pretty misleading. People naturally become more conservative as they get older. The "old" people that are now supporting Trump were all peace, drugs and free love in the 70s. There's no reason to believe current generations won't become more conservative in their thinking as time goes on. I highly doubt many Trump supporters were hippies in the 70s, and I think you're fooling yourself if you think all generations function the same politically. Sanders wouldn't have scored like this with young people in the 1970s or in the 1990s, the growth of progressivism is quite new. And given that a lot of these young people believe their positions stem from being a lot more informed than the older generations (for the purpose of this discussion, I don't need to analyze whether it's true or not, which is why I just wrote "perceive" here), due to internet being their source as opposed to traditional media, I see no reason to think they'll change their mind as a group any time soon. http://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-do-we-become-more-conservative-with-age-47910I'm not fooling myself at all. Personal circumstances absolutely shape people's political outlook and people in their 20s have different goals, values and circumstances to people in their 40s and over. Why wouldn't their politics be subject to change given how much of their lives will change? Older people have children, careers and a greater capacity for self reliance than younger people, of course they're going to have different political viewpoints. In my view the rise of the fringes of both sides of politics (Sanders/Trump) has more to do with the increasing role of the internet (a tool that fragments and divides) in our society and the modern media's addiction to outrage as a revenue stream. If there really was a rising tide of progressivism you wouldn't have the same rush to the fringe occurring on the other side of politics.
This graphic ignores what it means to be a conservative over the years. Twenty years from now, the conservatives won't think that gay marriage is bad. They will still identify as conservatives.
Sanders is not fringe. He's only fringe in the US cause you have an imbalanced system. You don't have a rush to both extremes, you have a rush to something that should exist, but doesn't (a social democrat party), and a rush to an extreme that is also happening in most european countries. Check out how Trump was doing against Sanders among young people before you decide the same explanation can cover both.
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On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Show nested quote +Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). Show nested quote +My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source
That is one way to become well known I guess.
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On September 21 2016 13:11 Doodsmack wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source That is one way to become well known I guess.
and yet none of that mentions that leslie jones is the actual racist and bigot. thousands of sites and blogs rush to her defense, but turn away when someone writes a negative, (but honest,) review and then gets banned from twitter. twitter/facebook/google are all liberal biased machines
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On September 21 2016 13:20 Hexe wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 13:11 Doodsmack wrote:On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source That is one way to become well known I guess. and yet none of that mentions that leslie jones is the actual racist and bigot. thousands of sites and blogs rush to her defense, but turn away when someone writes a negative, (but honest,) review and then gets banned from twitter. twitter/facebook/google are all liberal biased machines
I knew one of his fans would come along to grace us with this divine knowledge. Milo attracts the best fans.
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On September 21 2016 12:26 a_flayer wrote:
At this point, I'm sort of hoping Trump wins and tanks the US into such a deep pit of depression it no longer capable of projecting its power throughout the world.
Be careful what you wish for. There are other folks out there who would love to project their power in our place.
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On September 21 2016 13:20 Hexe wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 13:11 Doodsmack wrote:On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source That is one way to become well known I guess. and yet none of that mentions that leslie jones is the actual racist and bigot. thousands of sites and blogs rush to her defense, but turn away when someone writes a negative, (but honest,) review and then gets banned from twitter. twitter/facebook/google are all liberal biased machines
Regardless of whether or not Leslie is a bigot, Milo is also a bigot.
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On September 21 2016 13:26 Plansix wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 13:20 Hexe wrote:On September 21 2016 13:11 Doodsmack wrote:On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source That is one way to become well known I guess. and yet none of that mentions that leslie jones is the actual racist and bigot. thousands of sites and blogs rush to her defense, but turn away when someone writes a negative, (but honest,) review and then gets banned from twitter. twitter/facebook/google are all liberal biased machines I knew one of his fans would come along to grace us with this divine knowledge. Milo attracts the best fans.
have you watched any of his interviews, he is quite elegant and relies on facts, not emotions. he is a professional provocateur, not a monster
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I've yet to see anything that Leslie has done that's actually bigoted. She had a "lawl white people" tweet which is the most benign thing on earth. The "Oh god you white people crazy" has been done forever. Poking fun at race and the stupid shit people do is old hat. Suddenly people care that she tweeted that? Talk about feigning persecution and actually becoming worse than the PC culture you hate, jesus.
Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Louis CK, Bull Burr, Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks, Steve Harvey, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc have all lampooned their own races and other races and they're considered the funniest people to have ever lived on the planet. I don't see anyone (who doesn't have severe mental illness I guess since you can't account for everyone) lining up to call them bigots and racists. No one gave a shit when they did bits on the silly stuff people do. But deary me Leslie Jones sure did hold you down and hurt your feelings with that "OMG white folks" tweet.
On September 21 2016 13:35 Hexe wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 13:26 Plansix wrote:On September 21 2016 13:20 Hexe wrote:On September 21 2016 13:11 Doodsmack wrote:On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source That is one way to become well known I guess. and yet none of that mentions that leslie jones is the actual racist and bigot. thousands of sites and blogs rush to her defense, but turn away when someone writes a negative, (but honest,) review and then gets banned from twitter. twitter/facebook/google are all liberal biased machines I knew one of his fans would come along to grace us with this divine knowledge. Milo attracts the best fans. have you watched any of his interviews, he is quite elegant and relies on facts, not emotions. he is a professional provocateur, not a monster
No, he's a monster and he's using you to get rich. He's also full of shit. He can be a liar, a provocateur, and a monster all at the same time.
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On September 21 2016 13:35 Hexe wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 13:26 Plansix wrote:On September 21 2016 13:20 Hexe wrote:On September 21 2016 13:11 Doodsmack wrote:On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source That is one way to become well known I guess. and yet none of that mentions that leslie jones is the actual racist and bigot. thousands of sites and blogs rush to her defense, but turn away when someone writes a negative, (but honest,) review and then gets banned from twitter. twitter/facebook/google are all liberal biased machines I knew one of his fans would come along to grace us with this divine knowledge. Milo attracts the best fans. have you watched any of his interviews, he is quite elegant and relies on facts, not emotions. he is a professional provocateur, not a monster
Bless your heart.
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On September 21 2016 12:26 a_flayer wrote:
At this point, I'm sort of hoping Trump wins and tanks the US into such a deep pit of depression it no longer capable of projecting its power throughout the world.
All happening already.No matter who wins it's going to be real bad.
Economic power is shifting east at an accelerating rate.
USA can't even take out Assad which seems to be one of their pet projects despite the chaos caused in Libya and Iraq when removing leaders.
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On September 21 2016 13:29 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 13:20 Hexe wrote:On September 21 2016 13:11 Doodsmack wrote:On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source That is one way to become well known I guess. and yet none of that mentions that leslie jones is the actual racist and bigot. thousands of sites and blogs rush to her defense, but turn away when someone writes a negative, (but honest,) review and then gets banned from twitter. twitter/facebook/google are all liberal biased machines Regardless of whether or not Leslie is a bigot, Milo is also a bigot.
Calling Milo a bigot is a good example of why the term has no meaning anymore.
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On September 21 2016 13:37 OuchyDathurts wrote:I've yet to see anything that Leslie has done that's actually bigoted. She had a "lawl white people" tweet which is the most benign thing on earth. The "Oh god you white people crazy" has been done forever. Poking fun at race and the stupid shit people do is old hat. Suddenly people care that she tweeted that? Talk about feigning persecution and actually becoming worse than the PC culture you hate, jesus. Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Louis CK, Bull Burr, Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks, Steve Harvey, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc have all lampooned their own races and other races and they're considered the funniest people to have ever lived on the planet. I don't see anyone (who doesn't have severe mental illness I guess since you can't account for everyone) lining up to call them bigots and racists. No one gave a shit when they did bits on the silly stuff people do. But deary me Leslie Jones sure did hold you down and hurt your feelings with that "OMG white folks" tweet. Show nested quote +On September 21 2016 13:35 Hexe wrote:On September 21 2016 13:26 Plansix wrote:On September 21 2016 13:20 Hexe wrote:On September 21 2016 13:11 Doodsmack wrote:On September 21 2016 12:45 hunts wrote:A look into the alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart's technology editor, also avoids directly typing "commit crimes for me against this person." But this article gives a great breakdown of how he gets around that. First, Yiannopoulos writes an article about someone (usually a woman) who did something he disagrees with.He doesn't include her name, but he links her Twitter prominently. Within a couple of hours, the harassment train is at full steam, with each such Tweet linking back to Yiannopoulos (his handle was @nero before he was banned from the platform). My daughter is 22, she just graduated college ... they stalked her at her school, they followed her, they put notes on the door where she used to live. My daughter was the captain of the university ... she's been drug tested ... she's a clean-cut kid ... and they've got people calling the University of Tennessee saying 'Eleanor Wilson's involved in prostitution and drug sales and all this other shit.'" source That is one way to become well known I guess. and yet none of that mentions that leslie jones is the actual racist and bigot. thousands of sites and blogs rush to her defense, but turn away when someone writes a negative, (but honest,) review and then gets banned from twitter. twitter/facebook/google are all liberal biased machines I knew one of his fans would come along to grace us with this divine knowledge. Milo attracts the best fans. have you watched any of his interviews, he is quite elegant and relies on facts, not emotions. he is a professional provocateur, not a monster No, he's a monster and he's using you to get rich. He's also full of shit. He can be a liar, a provocateur, and a monster all at the same time.
Meh. Every f*cking SNL skit shes ever been on has been about race... "Are you saying that because I'm black!?" She only exists in a vacuum of comedy.
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