linky not that islamoleftism hasn’t been bubbling for a decade, but this is dem whisperer, not fucking zemmour or whatever his name is
linky not that islamoleftism hasn’t been bubbling for a decade, but this is dem whisperer, not fucking zemmour or whatever his name is
My guess is that he thinks of Dr. Strangelove as the misunderstood good guy, because he was using game theory and strategy to help overcome the USSR. He is similar to how he sees his role as a contrarian Neo-lib wonk. You have to become completely callous and data driven to get optimal answers like “SNAP actually increases hunger by increasing food prices through subsidy and disincentivizing gainful employment”. He sees peoples “irrational” abhorrence at killing billions in nuclear hellfire getting in the way of the long term good of “winning” against the USSR.
TBC I have never seen him say this, but given his takes and behavior, I feel this is right.
Tbf, Turtle Island libs will justify anything that was targeted against the USSR. Even those more progressive ones who’d usually actually care about protecting the innocent (or about legalism and thus the Rules of Civilised Warfare) to at least some degree, throw that out the window when the nation whose civilians suffer, is a socialist state the Red Scare taught them there are no innocents or noncombatants in, because communists are ontologically evil.
So there’s a lot of people who aren’t usually anywhere near that callous, who’d think Dr. Strangelove was the misunderstood good guy.