You missed my point which is my fault as I was vague. The point of calling out team purity was to show in that tweet the obvious, but lost to them point, that if you want to make progress more than you want to feel superior you recognize no politician is perfect and back the one who can make positive change.
God damn. Nothing quite gets me off like rich non-Americans clutching their pearls when progressives that actually live here don’t love a fucking BIDEN HARRIS ticket. Give me a fucking break.
I’m trolling you 100% because you honesty think me owning a company and having a degree is both an insult and somehow invalidates my views. Then while trying to insult me you don’t even get the facts right.
Why do you purity guys think I’m rich lol. I’m middle class. Slightly upper range middle class maybe. You guys think I live on a pile of money. I live in a townhouse and drive a 2013 Mazda 3 that has recently broken out in rust bubbles. .
Maybe because you honestly think it invalidates my points.
I know I pick on team purity a lot but it’s a genuinely dangerous political movement that hurts actual progress.
I’m with you, mang. lol you may not want me as an ally, and I mostly steer clear of politics threads these days because it’s unpleasant, but whatever this current iteration of left-wing politics is, the left is doing itself no favors.
I get that Clovis is trolling like a mofo here, but “Fuck off, you’re not an American” is a shitty take on a forum with a lot of good non-American posters.
Because you’re woefully out of touch with the working poor in the US.
A Joe Biden / Kamala Harris administration doesn’t make the lives of the ~50% of the US workforce that earns $15/hr or less significantly better. Progressive policies of Bernie / AOC do. You have no fucking idea what it’s like to put off going to the Dr. because if you go and something is super fucked, you could lose every penny to your name. We need a dramatic sea change in this country. Instead, we’re getting the same thing we’ve gotten for every other presidential election of our lifetime; the opportunity to vote for a slightly less right of center candidate that will murder brown people at home and abroad and keep the shitty status quo for most of the country.
This country fucking sucks. Living here fucking sucks. If I had the incredible privilege to live in a sane country like Canada, I wouldn’t spend multiple hours a day on a US politics forum telling people that are fed up with their system to grow up while I sniff my own PhD farts.
People have decided that discrediting the speaker is more effective than arguing the point. The good news is they’re right. The bad news is that causes politics to become unmoored from reality where nothing someone says matters if you dislike them.
I don’t know whether people ever had the ability to discern reality, but now whether something is true is less important than whethet you like the speaker and message.