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"When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them The First Time" - Maya Angelou | Perfect as the Enemy of Good Quickly Leaves You With Neither
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Nah, Krispy Kreme plain glazed are crack and this absolutely tracks
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And my favorite companion, "why are Dems doing (thing they haven't actually done at all)?!"
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That's just an unwillingness to follow. Pretty sure the actual past tense of lead is "plumbism"
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The easiest way to convince yourself that Dems aren't doing what you ask of them is to listen to anyone but the actual Dems you demand action from.
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I'll have to find out who said it but someone I follow made the point that the Pride pandering by companies was, in fact, a good sign, because it meant companies saw value in trying to appeal to LGBT folks, and now they instead see value in throwing them under the bus
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Too many people see protest as the ends, not the means. I get the worry about half measures, but ideally those half measures should make later progress more viable, not less, and it's folks shitting on the step forward and allowing the backslide b/c the progress isn't perfect that are a problem
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Strong "how dare you make good the enemy of perfect!" energy.
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Not just that, but it's not some weird conspiracy of the 'duopoly', but a natural games theory outgrowth of a system the constitution has prescribed. There's no magic wand way to make third parties inherently viable unless you have the support of at least one party to make the changes necessary.
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It's easy to repeat something over and over again when you not only have your own functionally-state media apparatus but have browbeaten ostensibly 'neutral' media into taking your side by default because of said owned media apparatus. That Dems can brute force a message through this is a pipe dream
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Brain drain as intentional policy. I'm sure this won't backfire at ALL or anything...
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And it's almost like we just saw *why* parties tend not to primary their incumbent president in most cases: beating up on your incumbent tends to reflect horribly on the party as a whole as well and the idea of 'tempering' incumbents through rigorous primaries just leaves them bruised in the general
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I'm getting so fuckin' fed up with the death-by-a-thousand-cuts Everyone Is A Messaging Expert shit happening on social media, where seemingly the only viable message is the message you want to see, and every point you want Dems to make should be made by *every last Dem* at *every possible moment*.
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In the general, or specific team identities in mind?
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I’m not sure anything captures the pathologies of mainstream media quite so clearly as the intimate relationship between the New York Times and Christopher Rufo - who has always relied on the NYT to launder his disingenuous crusades, has said so himself publicly, and yet they keep obliging.
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just a thought on genocide, Musk's mad cuts have killed (so far) 300,000 people, 200,000 of them children, and thats in a few months. Thats more people than have died in the whole 100+ year Israeli-Arab conflict on both sides.
it is getting 1/1000000th the attention.
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Biden ended both the war in Afghanistan and the drone war, basically overnight.
In response, he got *zero* credit from those who claimed to want "anti-imperialism".
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We have shit like this, and then folks act like steamrolling media in order to promote a left-wing message to the people should be the easiest fucking thing. Folks will believe the stupidest fucking shit, precisely because it's the opposite of what sincere people and/or history say.
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NYT reporters very publicly declared that reporting what the administration actually did economically was tantamount to doing PR for them and that only negative news counted as news!
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Dem party has moved a lot on palestine for the better, but its not what killed bidens approvals. It was largely afg withdrawal and inflation specifically car juice and never recovered
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like he was primarily punished for ending a war not for Gaza is extremely bleak
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It does feel like there's a perspective missing here, since they already have the 'Dems did most everything wrong' and 'Dems always do everything wrong' covered here...
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If he's sincere about it and is willing to see the big picture, then by all means. Long as he agrees on the particulars >50% of the time, and holds a redline for democracy, we're cool. The problem with folks like Manchin wasn't the disagreement, it was the bad faith shit stirring they did.
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To be fair, Harris was all lined up to be president after Biden, and for some odd reason, folks balked at that idea enough to want to completely retcon the Biden administration wholesale.
10-year-plan? What's that? If I can't have it now then it's no good, that's real progress!
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They yelled at him for supposedly doing it the wrong way on purpose to sabotage future attempts to forgive student loans! They didn't just not give him credit, they concocted a conspiracy to project the most malevolent intent onto him!
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As far back as 2016, I was having arguments like one where a then-friend insisted Hillary had done nothing to reach out to “progressives.” I pointed out she had basically let Bernie write most of the platform, and asked what more he wanted from her. He just rambled about how much he hated Tim Kaine.