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    The whole interview she refuses to call it a genocide and very awkwardly avoids making any comment from herself about it whenever Briahna mentions it. Of course leftists have difficulty talking to Natalie as an equal (in her words “human being”) because she is not an equal on politics. She does not understand power dynamics at all and self admittedly primarily focuses on the “vibes” of politicians.

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    This reads like trump tweets lol. “Brianna joy gray, JILL STEIN VOTER, comes to me, she says ‘mr trump will you please be on my podcast’?”

    And so on. You get it. The whole aside about women not getting enough recognition and she’s really nice and so on and then straight to the dig at her? Pure Trump

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      Literally reads like one of his recent tweets relating to the Iran war. ‘LOSER who totally did not own me (is actually owning owning me btw) because I have owned myself. I trust that Iran will be DECENT and not own me further because I’ve already owned myself and have thus won the war’

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        She says she’s acting in (deep inhale) bad faith. She says it folks! Some people, they say I act in bad faith, but I would never admit - I don’t act in bad faith - would you admit you did? But I still go on there, because I’m good! I’m good! People say it all the time! And I do it because she’s a woman, a beautiful woman - you’re not allowed to say that anymore by the way, but she is - and women, they dont get enough credit! I could have a (deep inhale) podcast and I would be great at it! Wouldn’t I? But she’s good too! And she doesn’t get enough credit! Not because shes pretty - for her age - but because she’s a woman! So I go! I go to bad faith! And what do they do? They ask me questions! So many questions

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    Wahhhh how dare someone post clips of the episode I went on ?

    Like wtf do you expect? Someone not to post any clips ? If you go on a show and lose the debate then the clips are going to be you losing the debate.

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      Twitter leftists: “Briahna is owning ContraPoints”

      ContraPoints: “I lost the debate”

      Reality: Briahna was just asking basic questions and logical follow-ups that every lib has already seen on their social media feeds thousands of times in dozens of various forms and should have a prepared lie to counter it, but still doesn’t for some reason!? You can just call it “Russian disinformation” on social media and ignore it, but you can’t do it in an interview that you agreed to!!

      This just shows that no one wants to work anymore, the libs MUST KNOW that going on leftists podcasts and lying in a slick way would still win them some votes and visibility, compared with not going on those podcasts at all, but they can’t even come up with some bullshit response to basic questions.

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        Briahna was just asking basic questions and logical follow-ups that every lib has already seen on their social media feeds thousands of times in dozens of various forms and should have a prepared lie to counter it, but still doesn’t for some reason!?

        Contra doesn’t see any of those points because she blocks literally every single leftist that responds to her with any disagreement. She tunes it out, does not want to engage with literally anything that disagrees with her, and throws a strop when she isn’t unquestioningly worshipped.

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        I think they could come up with lies but they despise anyone who disagrees with them to such a degree that they refuse to do it. They think the left should just knuckle under and support them as a matter of fact, they don’t think they should lower themselves by trying to actually appeal to the left.

  • OK fine I’ll go listen to an episode of Bad Faith again.  I can’t help but enjoy the schadenfreude of dunking on KKKontraPointϟϟ

    Oh cool, she finally removed Virgil Texas from the cover so I can not die of cringe every time I see the show’s icon in my podcast list!

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      I was in the bathroom of a BedStuy bar in February, doing my thing, when I heard a loud banging on the door.

      “Be out in a sec” I said, figuring it was just some drunk.

      A second later the lock is picked. Virgil, puffing on a Juul in defiance of local law, steps in. I start to say “what the fu . . . .”, but he cuts me off by blowing his mango vape in my face, along with what smelled like halal cart meat. “Shut up, you lepton” he said, then took out his keys and took a large bump of cocaine. As he replaced them his portable bidet fell from the interior pocket of his cheap blazer. He looked at me again with scorn in his eyes and said “Are you gonna sit there peeing out your doo-doo ass all night?”.

      At this point I was getting mad, but as I started to speak he just said “what? What?” loudly as I did. By that time the bartender had come to see what the problem was - before I could say a word Virgil said “hey man, this junkie was shooting up in here, call the cops”.

      I was thrown out, and my credit card was left behind at the bar. The worst part was the next day there were 14 Cape Cods and 4 Brandy Alexanders charged to it.

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      If you asked her, I’m sure she’d she doesn’t support genocide and that she doesn’t want it to happen.

      But the tenor of that infamous tweet was one of nihilistic resignation, which like… On the one hand it’s kind if a distinction without a difference, the resulting inaction is the same.

      But on the other hand, I do think it’s worth distinguishing, because her reasoning is honestly way more frustrating than just outright genocide support. If someone openly supports it, then ok cool, you’re evil and you’re my enemy.

      But this kind of nihilistic resignation is… Just fucking annoying. The Palestinian people are still here, and they’ve already been through so damn much. So to throw up you’re hands, as a rich white woman, and say there’s nothing you can do, and that it’s a lost cause, why? Because you saw some upsetting videos online? Because some peopl were mean to you on Twitter?.. It makes me wanna beat my head against a wall! .

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        If you really boil down what that tweet says, her position is indistinguishable from Ethan Klein’s. That position being Israel is committing a genocide, but calling them out on it is antisemitic. The only difference is that she’s smarter than Ethan and can dress it up in nicer language.

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          Idk, Ethan doesn’t even pretend to feel bad about the whole genocide thing. There’s absolutely no light in his eyes. He’s opportunistically saying what he needs to.

          Natalie, meanwhile, I think genuinely feels horror at the situation, and is so paralyzed by it, and her own stupid twitter addiction, that she’s cajoled herself into a similar position.

          It’s like how you can solve a math problem in different ways. At the end of the day they both got to the same conclusion, so in that sense, we can just ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and declare them heinous dipshits. But at the same time, I do think it matters how people get there.

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    What is she even doing at this point? She’s not stupid. She’s no Brianna Wu. No doubt that her audience of left-libs is overwhelmingly anti-genocide. Is she actually to the right of John Oliver on Israel?