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‘Vile, Horrifying, Evil’: Trump Threatens to Bomb Nation of 90 Million People ‘Back to the Stone Ages’
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But it fucking should be. I would also agree that no death and destruction is all that is acceptable. It's really disheartening that that was not a realistic choice. But if you're on the trolley heading towards total death and destruction and pulling the lever takes you to a little bit of death and destruction, you pull that fucking lever. You don't take the "moral high ground" and tear down the Trump tracks while criticizing the other option for not being a good enough choice and take your passengers with you. It mystifies me that anyone disagrees with that.
Perfect is the enemy of good. And good is the enemy of better. If you have no good choice, you pick the better choice. Period.
Too many people on Lemmy either aren't on the trolley (Non-Americans) or they don't realize they're on that damn trolley with us. They're the purity-testers who see their own left-purity as more important than the actual lives that could be not-dead while we try to pull a liberal to the left. Instead we get to collectively flail while fascists bomb Iran.
Yep, this.
I remember being in my early teens, where one is liable to apply purity tests everywhere one goes. Heck, we all do. But most of us tend to grow up.
Doing all this wishcasting about perfect leftist candidates that check all the buttons along with a perfect leftist electorate makes for great fantasy, I guess.
But then sitting back and declaring you are morally superior than everyone else when it doesn't happen and you choose to sit out or vote for a ridiculous party like the Green Party is really not the flex these people think it is.