If I can’t post, I don’t want your revolution
Just like anything that involves even semi-direct contact with actual humans, politicians engaging in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) can be fraught. Even if you avoid any major blunders or controversies, you risk revealing that you are just profoundly dull. Dull is not something we’d call newly independent Senator Gerard Rennick, but he did experience the other side of the process: getting a fairly savage down-voting and some pretty hostile questioning about his views on COVID-19 and climate change. But what really caught our attention was Rennick’s username, the absolutely weapons-grade handle “Cool_Revolution_4559“.
We asked Rennick where he came up with the account name, and alas, it wasn’t his idea.
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