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goddamnedfrank5/23/2024 1:32:01 pm PDT

re: #37 EPR-radar

I really do wonder what fraction of this online shit is from GOP/Russian ratfuckers vs. useful idiots for those ratfuckers. But it’s undeniable that significant parts of the D base are flaky in a way that the R base isn’t, which is a major problem.

The difference is Democrats hate their base but don’t fear it, while Republicans fear their base but don’t hate it.

Really recommend people stop punching down and taking out their frustrations on far leftists who correctly identify the problem as milquetoast centrists going along with mass murder to get along. Like, if the best argument is that people should just quietly accept another five months of flagrant mass murder and ethnic cleansing because Trump will be worse, well that argument just sucks. And sure, we can call people flaky for having and putting principles ahead of realpolitik, but it doesn’t really address the fact that getting centrists to act according to the morals they purport to have might be easier to accomplish than attempting to get people who actually believe in things to consciously let openly amoral considerations of expediency occlude those beliefs.