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the smug "see how you like it" in the face of people suffering (eg "Trump is also bad on Palestine, take that ppl who called him 'Genocide Joe'") is so fucking corrosive on the soul and is pretty ineffective at coalition building, and I say this as someone with a long history of soul-corroding takes and tendencies
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Exception: Matt Stoller being confused at what's happening, that guy is bad faith all the way down and is owed little to no grace
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@ingrid Democratic Party feels entitled to vote. It’s all very abusive.
“You belong to us, that’s what happens when you leave home”
Meanwhile, financing genocide.
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@ingrid it's as if dehumanizing anyone, hurts everyone
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@ingrid I've been talking a lot about downward spirals vs upward spirals lately. If everything's a tit-for-tat negativity, the least we can do is interrupt it with some neutrality or concession or "two things can be bad at once" rather than continue it
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"red states not getting federal aid heh heh" also qualifies in this genre, sorry