I feel I have to block negative people. Who come into my mentions with "I agree with you but you are f***ing stupid if you think Trump will face justice."
As James Baldwin reminds us, "I never have been in despair about the world. I’ve been enraged by it. I don’t think I’m in despair. I can’t afford despair. I can’t tell my nephew, my niece. You can’t tell the children there’s no hope."
Do not despair my friends. Be angry. Stay angry. But be not hopeless. We will get through this. We will.
cynicism has no place on the left
It's coming though. Saw a few purity posts today criticizing what they have labeled Blue MAGA and advocating not voting for any Democrats that aren't sufficiently leftist because "They're all the same."
Swear this nonsense is just a rerun of 2024, and plenty of folks are on board.
It's the primaries, so yeah, elect better Dems, but this 'I'm not going to vote stuff' is ridiculous and dangerous.
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not voting, and thus helping fascists win, in the name of scolding someone for not being ideologically pure
this isn't the left doing this, this is someone with ego masturbation needs. they may call themselves left, but they are not. they have self-serving psychological goals, not community-serving ideological goals
@hosford42 @benroyce @QasimRashid
Some may be Russian trolls, and we certainly can expect these to be active because it has worked so well in the past, but certainly not all. Somehow these folks equate 'not voting' with strength and fighting hard for their principles. That their action (or inaction) actually hurts, and maybe kills, the people they profess to be fighting for is less important to them than this demonstration of 'character.'
@mastodonmigration @hosford42 @QasimRashid
they are entitled people
they will not suffer the immediate effects (they will eventually suffer negative effects, but they don't know/ don't care)
thus they allow themselves to view the topic of voting as an abstract concept, and have abstract ineffectual attitudes that only serve their sense of self-regard. they certainly don't serve their community
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES
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