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.
@mastodonmigration @QasimRashid
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
Yes, outsized ego is certainly consistent with the syndrome.
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I always think of the Sanders to Trump voters when the purists come out. They always have a reason, I’m just not sure it’s always the one they give.
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-trump-2016-election-654320
@fsinn @mastodonmigration @QasimRashid
i voted for sanders in the primary
i gave him money
then of course, i voted for hillary in the general
because i'm not stupid
anyone on a sanders -> trump track is somewhere like a tankie: they aren't a real leftist, they are closet fascists
but we can ignore types like me, and tankies, because the problem now is people who just don't vote. they're a different kind of person. they're entitled
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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