The governor encouraged Coloradans to follow the controversial online personalities, saying they do “actual thinking.”
Someone from Governor Jared Polis’s team should seriously revoke his social media privileges.
It was just one year ago that the Democratic governor of Colorado inspired statewide outrage for posting a celebration of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services — mere months after Polis himself said the famous anti-vaxer would bring back measles and polio.
Now, Polis is back with an even stranger endorsement. In an X post on December 7, the governor encouraged his constituents to follow Richard Hanania and Nicholas Decker on social media.
Hanania spent years writing for white supremacist publications, expressing support for eugenics and opposition against “race-mixing.” Decker has posted frequently in defense of various sex crimes, including consuming AI-generated child pornography and having sexual relations with minors and animals.
Polis lauded Hanania and Decker as “intellectuals” who “are doing actual thinking which is rare these days,” though he noted that his promotion of the men “doesn’t mean I agree with them most or all of the time.”
The governor’s team doubled down on that last part when Westword asked Polis to clarify his endorsement of the men. Westword’s inquiry included an article from The Atlantic detailing Hanania’s ties to white supremacist ideology.
“The Governor was clear in his post that he doesn’t agree with the majority of what these individuals believe and he is always open to hearing differing viewpoints,” says Shelby Wieman, a spokesperson for Polis. “His focus remains on leading for Colorado, and that includes listening to opposing perspectives and finding ways to disagree better no matter where they land in the depths of social media.”
you can gauranteed someone who is a white supremecist is likely to be a pedophile too. the trifecta of projection of conservatives; pedophelia, white supremecy, or rapist.
Kinda sounds like the governor might be a kid touching, animal fucking, white supremacist.
Heartbreaking - the Lesser of Two Evils Just Reminded You They’re Still Evil.
Sing it, sister.
Edit: also I’d love to hear the mental gymnastics from your downvoters on why “we should support these racist child molesters because we shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good” and that the alternative is so much worse - like Trump the racist child molester.
Well, the lesser evil is still better than the other. I just maintain voters need to keep pressure on the Democrats because, in my view, fixing the Democrats is the fastest way out of the currently shitty state of things.
The lesser evil is still evil. People seem primed to believe that there couldn’t possibly be any other choice than to elect evil people and that is where the problem lies.
The “greater” and “lesser” evil are just further mental gymnastic designations to justify supporting the candidates and policies that are destroying this nation. The “lesser evil” voter makes this designation so that they can still feel good about their choice despite acknowledging that they’re choosing evil.
It’s not mental gymnastics, it’s a recognition of reality. Kamala Harris was a lesser evil. Would she have even tried to do half the things I, as a leftist, think she should have? No. But her being president would have saved tens of thousands from being deported and millions from living in constant fear. That difference matters.
That difference matters a LOT. Leadership personality and tone-setting matters a lot. I don’t think that she would have made things broadly much better in a policy sense, but I didn’t vote for her expecting her policies to make life better, I voted for her to keep fucking Trump out so we can have a few more years to desperately try to keep pushing the needle back left and raise up more potential socialist and progressive leaders like we saw with Mamdani… something that gets squashed more often when someone like Trump is prying the whole system apart and installing judges. I swear we need more fucking mandatory civics classes.
I don’t get why this is controversial for people. It’s like everyone tunes the fuck out every four years and just focuses on that ONE sporting event, instead of looking at politics in terms of a gradual, ongoing process.
Lemmy is really bad about this being a little further left, and I’m not even counting the .ml shadow side of the valley. Generally this site is a good view into the attention spans and mature political analysis of our current leftist movement. Which is to say, any day now some amazing socialist is going to descend from socialist heaven and start leading us to a huge revolution and even after it ends somehow we don’t have to worry about the tens of millions of people who didn’t want the socialist revolution.
It doesn’t really matter though because the last several federal elections have had the highest voter turnout and youth turnout in US history. The problem wasn’t angy leftists folding their arms, the problem is our population has gotten dumb. People tuned out the news because nothing makes sense anymore, you don’t know who to trust, and people broadly don’t socialize as much so there’s less social incentives to have and hold values and opinions. Think hard. No think, scroll.
Fewer people are being deported now than during Biden’s term (to the ire of Trump) so what are you basing this belief of her hypothetical actions on? Harris herself stated that she wanted to crack down on asylum seekers, increase the number of border patrol agents, and even warned migrants “not to come” to America while visiting Guatemala during her campaign.
You’re ignoring reality in favor of an idealized image of what you think a Democrat would do. Even now, Democrats are helping Trump’s agenda at every turn and yet you think they’re our saviors despite the fact that they never follow through with any of their promises. It’s quite ridiculous.
What separates you from a Republican who voted for Trump even though they “don’t agree with everything he does?” That person sees Democrats in the same way you see Republicans, so what differentiates you? You all want things to be exactly as they are now as demonstrated by your unwillingness to change anything, and you are all responsible for it. Keep voting for evil and evil is what you get.
Source: trust me bro?
Meanwhile, in the real world, Trump is on his way to deporting long time residents at twice the rate of Biden. That’s to say nothing of the aforementioned climate of fear causing people to flee the country, which is harder to quantify.
Keep on convincing yourself it’s better to do nothing that to reduce harm. The greater of two evils will probably never get to you, so you can keep on voting self-righteously without a care for actual consequences.
Literally this entire comment is pants on head backwards.
Source: trust me bro?
You can Google anything I mentioned if you want a source (if you actually care to learn what you’re supporting). Presidential campaigns are highly publicized. Where’s your source demonstrating that Harris would have treated them any better since you want to be a stickler? Let’s see some concrete examples of action from her not just more empty words.
Trump is on his way to deporting long time residents at twice the rate of Biden.
Why exclude everyone but long-term residents from the number of deportees? That sure seems like cherry-picked data. Do you feel that every deportee apart from that specific group is unworthy of concern? Can you explain why Biden didn’t give them a path to citizenship so that they wouldn’t forever be stuck in limbo and at the mercy of the political winds? Obama? Clinton? How about congressional Democrats in any of the dozens of congressional sessions during that time? Can you explain why these people have been treated as little more than a political football similar to abortion rights, the poor, wealth inequality, gun violence, and so much more? Why zero actual solutions have been implemented at any point in time? Why none of this is ever important outside of election season and quickly brushed to the side once they’ve secured victory?
Keep on convincing yourself it’s better to do nothing that to reduce harm.
You mean “doing nothing” like repeating the same failed action over and over, while telling yourself you’re doing something good despite literally everything pointing to the contrary? You’re not “reducing harm,” you’re prolonging torture.
Tell those long-term resident deportees that they shouldn’t be fearful because you’ve reduced harm. Tell those Palestinian children getting blown to pieces daily for the last two years that you’ve reduced their harm. Tell those parents struggling between buying Christmas presents and keeping food on the table that their harm has been reduced.
Dont worry, if they dont respond positively to you, you can always fall back on calling them self-righteous and explaining to them why it’s their fault that we’re still continuing down the same exact path we’ve been on for decades because they didn’t vote hard enough for the very same people that have been leading us this whole time. Explain how you’re nudging these leaders in the right direction by giving them your unwavering support every election despite them producing zero results every single time. Explain how you call these leaders ‘evil’ “but it’s totally cool and they deserve your support because they’re lesser evil.”
Once you’re done with that, you can then explain the end-game for the master plan. That point where you’ve supported the lesser evil so much that it turns good, the greater evil vanishes, and all our problems wither away. Maybe you can share that scenario with the rest of us while you’re at it.
It’s also ignoring the concept that they’re not actually interested in deporting everybody. Privately run immigration facilities are big business and big donors and they do well when they have inmates. To say nothing of the potential for involuntary labor from said inmates.
Cool, cool, cool, so u got any answers or u just here to start shit?
Yeah stop supporting both of these shit parties that we all unquestionably refer to as evil and support literally anything else. That should be a good start.
they basically just LARP as what actual society is like, but replaced with all their degenerate, corrupt shit. that’s really what they think, isn’t it? that we’re all just pretending like they are?
Everything I hear about this man makes me think he has a wet noodle for a spine. For how great of a state Colorado is, their governor is a fucking disgrace.
Polis has always tried way too hard to demonstrate that he sees nuance and splits hairs. Sometimes that baby is rancid and needs to go with the bathwater.
Seriously, this is such a self-own. If you find something they’re saying thoughtful, say what that thing is, don’t just tweet out “Hey, I don’t agree with these people, but y’all should listen to them anyway.”
“I dont agree with them, I just like listening to them talk about white power fucking kids.” - Jared Polis
/facepalm
