Being a birther in 2025 is a level of pathetic I didn’t think was possible. Even if Obama wasn’t born in America, his mother was an American citizen which makes him an American citizen. Why are we still debating this?!
Malik Obama guaranteed it'd never die when he corroborated it for some reason, or he at least cemented it as being "disputed" rather than outright wrong.
I'm right-wing but I find it perplexing on the purpose of debating it. It's not like it'd be able to un-do the past 17 years, or the Obama presidency (which is what I think Boomers believe would happen) unless it's just an attempt to give cause to arrest Obama for fraud or something. It'd be a rather hollow victory, a vindication that doesn't even result in anything substantial. It could perhaps be used to argue that his whole presidency was self-centred and and mired with split loyalties, but considering BLM flourished under him, one could make the argument his loyalties were already split between black Americans and everyone else, but I digress. And if it's argued to try and delegitimise him to the left-wing, I can't imagine it being a great success since I can't truly make heads or tails anymore on whether citizens/non-citizen even matters to them.
I personally think it's being argued in part due to a combination of pride alongside defending "your side". If you're willing to cast off the most retarded of your side, you risk becoming a minority against the opposition. The Left has trannies/post-structuralists/neo-Marxists (self-explanatory) and retarded takes on environmentalism ("Nuclear energy bad! Solar good!"
Installs solar panels in sunless UK) the Right has retarded/schizo conspiracists (Q-anon, Pizzagate (Not "elites are pedos", but specifically that one pizza place was an underground ring for pedophilia)) and absolutely caustically-minded boomers/boomer-larpers ("Young people are just lazy: bootstraps and handshakes - that's all it takes."/"Any criticism of corporations or businesses is communism!") and so on.
There's also an issue with politics online where if you put your views out there, you can't really back down or else you're taken as fickle and unprincipled. For E-celebs you can't ever be wrong or admit to being wrong lest you give your opponents ammo and you push away some of your own audience. Left-wing examples includes the likes of Destiny and Hasan. If you see yourself as primarily a political figure whose commentary is "wide-reaching" and "influential", then you're unlikely to ever admit to being incorrect on any issue ever.
Being confidently wrong about something is the quickest way to grind my gears honestly, hence my occasional visit to this thread. Asmongold lives in his own filth but his lack of ego makes him more likable than Razor, even if I find myself watching Razor more often.