• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Save your ire for a few months. No sane politician is going to spout exacting policy this close to an election. Why give your enemy so much as a single bullet?

    We get her in, then we go into analyses like yours, feet to the fire. ATM, I’m going to STFU, not say a word against her until she’s soundly whipped Trump, idealism comes later.

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      2 months ago

      We get her in, then we go into analyses like yours, feet to the fire.

      Except that will never happen. Because we saw it not happen with Biden.

      I’m going to STFU, not say a word against her until she’s soundly whipped Trump, idealism comes later.

      The date at which it will become acceptable to do anything other than STFU will keep getting pushed back. Later means never.

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      2 months ago

      Politicians exist to get elected. How do you expect to hold their feet to the fire after you elect them? Give them four years to do a bunch of nothing then switch back to saying “now isn’t the time to ask for change, we have to defeat the Toupee 2.0!”?

      I’ll save you some time and respond for you: “yOu MuSt WaNt ToUpEe To WiN!!1!”

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      3 months ago

      I MUST make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection