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Not even the infinite scroll feature has enough space for me to list everything wrong with him.

Look, I don't require every politico to agree with me on my every political position—not only is that a childishly ridiculous expectation, it's also a cultish mentality. I don't agree with anyone on absolutely everything.

That said, Dore's rhetoric went from being needlessly contrarian, to "WTF is he talking about," to him agreeing with (or too closely aligning with) waayyy too many conservatives, conservative Libertarians, and Republicans.

For example, Dore rarely misses an opportunity to attack Ilhan Omar, and hasn't once mentioned Brittney Griner (although I'm sure that's about to change, because shitting on BG's release is what Republicans are doing now, so it's only a matter of time before he emulates their thinly veiled anti-Blackness). And please don't get me wrong - it's not that Omar is perfect or anything, but if you didn't know who authored his tweets, it would be hard to distinguish between Dore's attacks on her and Republican attacks on her.

Jimmy jumped the shark a long time ago and I got off that particular crazy train over a decade ago.

Look, once upon a time, there was a period of my life when I ascribed to that whole Glenn Greenwood, TYT & Jimmy Dore type of leftist. Maybe in 2012ish or so. But at the end of the day, I'm Black af and I've watched too many of them begin to slowly morph into the same kind of smug ass, edgy white guy™ that Bill Maher and Joe Rogan have become. 🤮🤮🤮

Dore is on that same trajectory.

So I like to think that I matured beyond their kind of bombastic antics, much the same way that some people thought Atlas Shrugged was serious political thought—not me, but I've known some—but eventually snapped out of it as they got older and got into the real world, and learned compassion.