anti suicide cats that clock when you’re on the ledge and act up enough to make you forget all about being depressed bc ur far too busy being annoyed with one of the cutest little creatures that will ever grace this earth >>>>
Just say "We liked him before we knew. He had momentum, and his views were better than anything we'd seen in a while, so we got desperate". Damn.
Centrists are absolutely being hypocrites since GENOCIDE wasn't a dealbreaker for them, but these progressives are hurting the cause.
"They only engage with it apart from their own lived experience, as an observation of the world. And they don't interrogate the ways in which race and white supremacy narrates their worldview." -FD Signifier (2/2)
"A lot of white leftists understand that racism is bad, but they don't fully understand racism. And they only see and undertand and engage with racism from an objective, outsider framework..." (1/2)
It is an extreme example to say that it's childish to overemphasize politicians' individual character over their platform. I largely don't give a shit what's in a politician's heart - we'll never know. They're not auditioning to be our BFFs. This is about what they fight for.
every time i get frustrated that she's not as big as she's supposed to be, i remember her parents both have cancer and there are more important things than music and being a superstar...
Wow, so there will be no lessons learned from this. You have to maintain some standard for character or these same candidates will keep coming back again and again.
Also, I’m starting a therapy group for any of Emma Vigeland’s Black friends (assuming there are any!) because good God.
Politician rapes woman and murders innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
American leftists: 'i'm sorry, but do we want a working class party or not?'
Its important to reiterate that graham platner should have never gotten to this point to begin with. If we held a principled stance acknowledging that he never did any meaningful self reflection about his role in the expansion of the american empire, we could've replace him day 1
Platner is a perfect encapsulation of the chauvinism of the American Left, where signing up to personally kill brown people abroad (multiple times) is far less disqualifying than rape at home, which to be clear is also absolutely disqualifying.