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Why don’t we flip this.
What are some policy positions of Fuentes that you don’t like?
Not trolling or trying to be funny, but actual consistent positions?
It’s hard to find a good-faith summary of Fuentes’s policy positions, so I’m going off the top of my head here:
This clip has been going around as evidence that Fuentes wants to kill all the Jews, but the real thing he is advocating for here is executing witches. He sounds pretty serious here. I don’t think this is one of his joking-around clips. I think this would be bad policy and I disagree with it.
In a recent episode Nick went on a big monologue about how surrogacy is evil because it rips babies away from their mothers. I disagree with this and think a ban on surrogacy would be bad policy.
Nick doesn’t think Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and Josh Hammer are Americans. He is typically vague on the policy details, but he rants about these three specific people almost every night. I don’t think there is any way to interpret Fuentes as not supporting revocation of their citizenship. I don’t think there is a valid basis for doing this and I disagree with it.
Well the first thing he is obviously trolling, and the second two are pretty benign.
Surrogacy basically the plot of handmaid's tale. It seems like there's quite a bit of resistance against that.
And as far as people with dual citizenship not being Americans - this is also self evidently true. There are some semantics that could be worked here, but there is certainly a different class of American who would have dual citizenship. Is a person in a polyamorous marriage really married in the classic sense to their husband? I mean...yes...sortof, but also not really.
I'm pretty sure most of the handmaid cosplayers never even watched the series, let alone read the book. I suspect you know the issue was forced surrogacy, through ritualized rape.
And it was only surrogacy in a legal sense, since the "surrogate" mother was also the biological one.
Regardless of the specifics of handmaids tale, my general point is that debating surrogacy is well, well within the Overton window right now.
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Perhaps that's why it plays well with women who have a sociofinancial incentive to claim all sex is rape and all childbirth is surrogacy.
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