Personally, I found myself praying that she is a brilliant satirist and impersonating the most arrogant, indoctrinated, biased Dunning-Kruger victim in medical history, in which case I want her contact information so I can direct her in a one-woman show. If she were a character in a Monty Python skit, it would end with Michael Palin shooting her in the forehead point blank.
It could also be a parlor game, where one takes a drink every time she says something stupid as if it’s an obvious conclusion.
Ethics Alarms 
I spiked it after 01:16; it should’ve been sooner.
And if you’re a 28 year-old single Y-Chromosomal Unit, there must be something wrong?
I didn’t get married ’til I was 47.
PWS
You had a stronger stomach than me, I only made it to 1:00. It’s a minute of my life I’ll never get back.
She’s a bigot.
It blows my mind that people are stupid enough to make and post a video such as that and that video is going to shadow her for the rest of her life. Sure she’s a bigot as I wrote before but it’s actually more important to say that she’s a fucking moron.
She has a response after it all went viral. She just doubled-downed.
I’m fine with her wanting to be with someone who shares her political ideals, but she seems to be in denial about it.
She claims she doesn’t care if someone’s a Republican, but she does want someone who is politically active, oh, but not if he’s going to vote against her.
She wants someone who will do research on politics rather than just copying his friends’ opinions, and she’ll respect the conclusion he comes to after his research, oh, but if he decides to vote independent then that’s not good enough. He has to vote for a major party, but if he doesn’t vote for her party then she’ll let him forget to register.
She’ll let him waste his vote by not registering if he was going to vote Republican, but if he was going to vote independently that’s an unacceptable waste of a vote.
I strongly suspect that her “research” is no more balanced than her ex’s friends’ opinions.
I also find her habit of replacing a reasoned argument with a tiny scream to be annoying, if candid. That and “single at 28 is a red flag” indicate a high level of bias baked into her thought processes.
Frankly, I stopped after she said she could present a list of facts about why you shouldn’t be economically republican. They have, as far as I can tell, slightly better support from facts than the democrats do, but I am certain that most of what she calls facts are biased interpretations at best. The economy is an inherently chaotic system (hyper sensitive to small changes in initial conditions) and there are almost no solid facts to be had about the effects of various policies. I was extremely frustrated when, after results of interventions that were worse than predicted if we hadn’t intervened in the great recession, certain economists used the same models to claim it would have been even worse rather than admit their models were just wrong.
One of my favorite ideas from Hayek is the “pretense of knowledge” regarding measurable statistics and how they mislead people.
Found a link to the old article by Megan McArdle that I vaguely recalled from back then.
I feel sorry for her cats.
Shortest, best ever, comment of the day.
Ha hahaha!
The ex-boyfriend dodged a bullet. But he shouldn’t have been such a beta in dancing around the topic, and have exercised more leadership in his relationship. He should rather be single, than allow this type of bullshit from a woman.
Either she is a moron or this was just a fabricated opportunity to be watched by other moronic women. Actually either way she is a moron because she thinks people want to hear a grown woman ranting like a teenager about a failed relationship, punctuating her rant with so many instances of “like” that I began to wonder if they were deliberate. She is so obviously self-obsessed that I wondered if all of her tweets are this way, but I didn’t wonder so much that I checked it out. I, like the ex, have more important things to do. Who the hell is she, anyway? Some sort of “influencer”? Yech.
So, a “Fair, Competent, Civil and Ethical Response”?
There is no response that would affect her and her thought processes. But putting something out to the universe?
“Relationships are hard, and they are made more difficult by the lack of shared beliefs, goals, and hopes for the future. That said, there are many couples who have made it work somehow. I personally know one couple who comprised a Clinton-appointed administrative law judge and a dedicated republican, who were happily married until his relatively early and tragic death from male breast cancer. Of course there is the famous political odd couple, James Carville and Mary Matalin. If one has relationships that go no deeper than the ephemera of opinions, one is doomed to die alone.”
How’s that?
I agree the guy dodged a bullet. Could you imagine her going off like that on a daily basis. I had a hard time getting past the shrillness.
Why does having gay friends make you a liberal. I have gay friends and I am not liberal in matters that involve imposing beliefs on others. I am liberal in my friendships meaning that I will offer my hand to anyone wanting to accept it but that does not mean I have to agree with everything they believe.
having gay friends makes you a liberal because many on the Left assume anyone right of them is a bigot.
Maybe all her friends just say they are gay to avoid getting into a relationship with her. I know I would.
I am curious about whether political preferences of gays have shifted after gay marriage became legal. The right has some prominent gay spokespersons such as Dave Rubin, Douglas Murray, and Tammy Bruce.
Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury!
“Why does having gay friends make you a liberal.”
Mascot Politics; Sexual Preference Division. One needs to kickstart hose Gosh I’m Nice/I’m Dialed In/Look At Me endorphin surges somehow, am I right?
PWS
If you have gay friends, you are enlightened and, barring any other disqualifying factor, a member in good standing of the right “community.” It’s sort of a litmus test that goes as follows: If gays and lesbians can be around this person, they must be okay.
That only applies if you’re a leftist who steers the conversation or takes up every slight opportunity, to mention that they have gay friends.
Conservatives have gay friends, too…They just call them “friends”.
But she isn’t liberal. She’s highly authoritarian. A Leftist authoritarian, to be sure, but there’s nothing liberal about her.
“Liberal” hasn’t really been an accurate descriptor for many on the left for quite some time now. “Progressive” implies working towards a worthwhile or noble goal, so “leftist” might be the only thing workable at the moment, since they and much of the press won’t accept “repressive authoritarian statist control freaks”.
I would argue that it was NEVER an accurate descriptor. It was an attempt by authoritarian progressives to relabel themselves when progressivism first became a negative epithet. Hence the creation of the phrase “classical liberal” when the media succesfully helped them claim the brand in the US.
“It was an attempt by authoritarian progressives to relabel themselves when progressivism first became a negative epithet.“
Post-Modern-Neo-Lefties are thoroughly detached from the Classic Liberalism of Claude-Frédéric Bastiat; it’s pathetic.
PWS
For a long time I thought these types of absurdisms needed reasoned measured responses.
The person who constructs this type of “logic” can’t comprehend this type of response.
Therefore, the only fair and competent response is Buck Sexton’s approach: forgo civil and pile on ridicule.
Ethical? That’s a tough one.
My mind went to the “test of wits” in “The Princess Bride”:
Man in black: “Truly you have a dizzying intellect.”
Vizzini: “Wait ’til I get going!!”
I stopped watching after about 1/3 of the video. I don’t hate myself enough to watch any more than that.
Gotta be satire. I mean, how self-unaware do you have to be to be pretty and single and mock someone else for being single?
Also, that mouth. Oh, my God. If I sat through one more affected choke, gag, or “Like…” I am certain I would’ve begun having thoughts of suicide. She is a walking, talking epilepsy-inducer, like a flashing red light or something.
Would that it were satire.
Well, okay, maybe performative. But who knows, that could really be her. If so, I suspect she growing up to be a 60-year old unmarried librarian cat lady.
That’s 4 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back. It’s nothing I haven’t heard before and the shrillness makes it twice as bad. I’m beginning to think there are no women that are not liberal and nasty about it. If you go on dating sites, you’ll see for yourself that almost no one self-describes as conservative, and the men who describe themselves as “independent” or “fiscally conservative but socially liberal” get almost no hits, because the women figure it’s just a cover for conservative.
The fact is that I’m a conservative, I’ve pretty much always been a conservative, and I’ll always be at least some degree of conservative. A lot of the liberal positions make no sense to me, and the last four years show that they don’t work. Don’t give me that nonsense about they just haven’t been executed right, or the messaging was wrong. They worked exactly the way they were intended to work, and the last administration knew that and knew it wouldn’t sell, so they lied about it or got others to lie about it.
Lies only go so far, and if there’s one person you ultimately can’t fool, it’s a romantic partner. This is someone who’s going to see you every day, see you at your best and your worst, know almost everything about you. You’re not going to be able to keep your beliefs a secret forever, and you shouldn’t have to.
The choice of lying to your partner about who you are or lying to yourself about who you are is an impossible one to make. It’s not easy being alone, but it’s a lot harder convincing someone else to fall in love with someone who really doesn’t exist. I think there’s also some major ethical issues with that.
Let’s also be honest here, who in his or her right mind wouldn’t get tired of constantly being berated about beliefs of any kind? I know I would. There are times it’s time to go off duty.
I’ve had people accuse me of exaggerating when I describe people like this. They are real, and I’ve known them. I knew people in college that acted just like her.
My brother’s husband also reminds me of her. The exaggerated, giggly, pretending to be reasonable and such when really the whole thing is just emotional reactions rather than analysis. The inability to just be friends on a human level and not make everything weird. A large part of the left can’t do that anymore.
I also suspect some of this is an act. I think she may be playing for the camera because her audience isn’t conservatives or moderates. She should ditch the high school vibe.
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