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@mark @tess001

I admit to what you're saying but also note polls showed #BernieSanders beating #Trump in the general #election in 2016

So if the #Democrat powerbrokers had any backbone and brain and heart they would have read the writing on the wall

Oh, they're certainly reading the writing on the wall now

Well...

You will still find mindless #centrist shit in the #Democrats denying the future even now

Such pathetic tools need to be driven to the quarry and pushed in (figuratively!)

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@old_hippie @pmonks

that's exactly what has to happen

#MAGA devoured the #GOP

now the #left must devour the #Democrats

only then can we get movement on things like #rankedChoiceVoting #rcv where we get viable third parties

with ranked choice and stable third parties we get to vote our conscience free and clear for once in this damn country

rather than this endless insipid need for strategy in #fptp voting, compromising to #centrist bullshit that saps the will and the passion

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@jasonbeets @gwaldby

I live in #Texas. No effing way am I helping fund #Democrats in other states unless and until the #DemocraticParty starts acting like a legitimate #opposition party.

Especially any #Democrat who publicly distances themself from #transgenderRights. Because, either you believe it is perfectly reasonable for the #government to tell people what they can or cannot do with their own bodies, or you don't. The logic that denies gender-affirming #healthcare is the exact logic used to deny #ReproductiveJustice. Either people have a right to #BodilyAutonomy or they don't. There is no #centrist position here.

A quotation from Joseph Addison

My friend Sir Roger heard them both upon a round trot; and after having paused some time, told them with an air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that “much might be said on both sides.”

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-07-20), The Spectator, No. 122

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/1439/

WIST Quotations · Essay (1711-07-20), The Spectator, No. 122 - Addison, Joseph | WIST QuotationsMy friend Sir Roger heard them both upon a round trot; and after having paused some time, told them with an air of a man who would not give his judgment rashly, that "much might be said on both sides."

@AliceMarshall

While "they" (the and a certain group of ) don't all own caliper sets, their belief in rigid of "ability" and "merit" also makes them all, at a minimum, " "-curious. There is a natural order to things, and they are, of course, at the top of it.

A common observation is that Twitter broke the brains of these people, as they had never before been exposed to people pointing out what stupid assholes they are. It sounds a bit silly, but having observed those brains breaking in real time I think it's actually quite true and maybe quite important!