When you say 'Diversity efforts are fine, but we can't sacrifice merit,' you're implying that folks of color are likely less qualified, rather than acknowledging a) your standards of merit are subjective, and b) such efforts identify merit in places it's normally overlooked (1)..
You don’t have to have read all of Das Kapital to understand how capitalism works. Everyone who works for wages understands how their boss minimizes safety concerns and reduces their salaries to keep the money for themselves.
After nominating Hillary Clinton in 2016 & now Joe Biden in 2020, its painfully clear what the Democratic Party thinks about progressives & the issues you care about. They demand your vote but otherwise despise you.
It's time to kick the capitalist two-party system to the curb.
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"Voting the lesser evil" got you Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and now Joe Biden.
Harm reduction didn't save us from harm. In the long run, it made it worse by stifling the possibility of building something beyond the Democratic Party.
You deserve better.
So, anyway, let's say this is so. (It's not.).
But let's say it is.
Unless Soleimani's plan was to personally attack these interests himself by walking up to them and throwing grenades and whatnot, how does blowing him up actually cancel these planned attacks?
I don't know who needs to hear this 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬.
By the thousands. Some cynical person, like you, decided to get up out of bed and say, "Fuck it, I'm fighting for something now."
You're not alone.