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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.”

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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.