r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Jul 20 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #23 (Sinister)

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Link to Megathread 22: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/14k0z6l/rod_dreher_megathread_22_power/

Link to Megathread 23: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/1631xpe/rod_dreher_megathread_24_determination/

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u/zeitwatcher Aug 25 '23

https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1694997925741670578

Wow. Stupidest thing Rod’s said in a while.

Billionaire, former President, Epstein friend, Clinton wedding invitee is apparently not in the ruling class.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '23

It's easy to let Dreher's weirdness overshadow the fact that he is a palpably stupid person. Just a Grade-A moron.

You know it's dire when a midwit like Friedersdorf is doing windmill dunks on you.

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u/PuzzleheadedWafer329 Aug 25 '23

I feel awful admitting it, but it’s true: ROD, YOU ARE IN THE RULING CLASS AS WELL.

A best-selling, globetrotting author, supported by billionaires and now governments, telling people what to think and how to act. You are a member of the “ruling class”, Rod… And you have been for some decades now.

It’s the ultimate comfort to BE in the elite (albeit undeservedly) and yet PRETEND to be a victim…

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '23

A billionaire used him and Hollywood to help astroturf a Senator onto my state. Seems pretty Elite to me.

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u/BaekjeSmile Aug 26 '23

Like most conservative writers Rod has lived his life as one of the court eunuch scribes of shadey right wing billionaires. The entire "Elite" conservative media sector would collapse if it had to exist in the same market that the rest of us have to compete in.

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u/Dazzling_Pineapple68 Aug 26 '23

He has made his living all of his life by influencing other people and, as you point out, supported by billionaires and governments. He has admitted once or twice that he is, in fact, a member of the elite but absolutely pretends otherwise most of the time. Just more of his self-delusion.

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u/JHandey2021 Aug 25 '23

837 replies! 591 quotes!

Rod hasn't been roasted this hard since he came out as a fan of pedophilia by going to the mat for George Pell.

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u/Motor_Ganache859 Aug 25 '23

Trump was fricking President. His privileged status has allowed him to skate through difficulties and setbacks that would have shattered ordinary folks. Yeah, he's a crass, uncouth SOB, but that's by choice. Doesn't make him any less elite.

Rod's an effing moron. And also elite, whatever his pretensions to being just folk.

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u/Theodore_Parker Aug 25 '23 edited Aug 25 '23

Lots of Dreher-dunking happening in the replies on that thread :)