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Debating the Alt-Right, Trump, and White Victimhood

from Complete the Trip · #20

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3 min

The group debates whether alt-right figures are genuinely antisemitic, Trump's coded rhetoric, and mocks the idea of white people as an endangered group using Long Island as an example.

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  • 20:36Tim calls back a woman and takes her to a fancy restaurant decorated like FAO Schwartz during the holidays.
  • 21:07Discussion turns to whether the alt-right guy actually hates Jews, given Trump's Orthodox Jewish daughter.
  • 21:20Tim acknowledges the alt-right exists but notes their embrace of Trump wasn't unprecedented compared to Bush.
  • 21:41Tim on the alt-right claim that white people are endangered: he grew up on Long Island where white people were fine even if they were dinosaurs when the meteor hit.
  • 22:08He criticizes liberalism for portraying everybody as a victim and refuses to accept that white people are victims.
  • 22:34Conversation shifts to a cat wearing a necktie, with speculation about who it belongs to and what it signifies.
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