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The next line should read
Liberals: "You're not who I'm trying to convince."
Followed by
Leftists: “We’re trying to convince you”
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. There will always be a more ideal goal. If you refuse to work towards something that's actually achievable because you want more, well, that's why leftists fight each other more than fighting the fascists that have taken over the usa and are well on the way to taking over the rest of the world too.
Voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil. Just because they're not as bad doesn't mean they aren't just as unpalatable to leftists.
Let's have a moment of silent gratitude for all those US leftists who preserved their personal sense of moral superiority by not voting or voting third party in the 2024 election. Where would we be without them?
Evidentially nowhere because the Dems when leftist vote for them shout they weren't needed and proceed to not pass anything. But keep on compromising your morals and values for the lesser evil, I'm SURE that'll win them over in the end.
Don’t let lesser be the enemy of what’s right. There will always be liberals seeking compromise on the right thing, and they’re wrong. That’s why the left fights and resists these right wing half measures.
I'll take what I can get.
And this is the hard part for most people: I don't stop there, because I've achieved goal 1 of 99 and the road is long and hard and where is everyone going
But historically, leftists in the strongest age of labor agitation have supported 'half-measures' that didn't bring about full socialism.
Modern incrementalists are not fit to speak of people who accomplish things other than genocide.
And yet the leftists accomplish nothing other than empowering the right through their weaponized political ineptitude. They are not fit to gatekeep liberals from political action.
"Incrementalism is when harm reduction"
I see one of my tankie bootlicker fans has come to chime in. Sorry that I didn't want tens of thousands of Iranians murdered, while you view it as a price you're willing to pay for moral purity and absolutely no positive change.
And you view it as an acceptable price to pay as long as no one got to vote against the genocide you masturbate to.
Sorry that I've been calling out the Palestinian genocide for a decade-and-a-half.
I guess you weren't paying attention until recently.
As the best shit you've ever seen.
Sorry that you think calling out Israelis for genociding Palestinians is praise. I'd say I hope you get better, but I know fascist bootlickers never do. :)
Why should anyone believe you when all you do is carry water for people who sell them weapons?
Because genocide is bad, but I guess since I'm not one of your fellow bootlickers, you instinctively take the opposite position.
So why do you carry water for its arms dealers?
So why did I tell people that voting for the less genocidal of the only two realistic candidates was necessary?
Because I thought more support for genocide was a bad thing. Something you don't agree with, I know.
The election is over and you're still carrying water.
"Carrying water" here meaning "Defending the choice of harm reduction."
I get it already, you don't think that reducing harm is worthwhile. You don't have to belabor the point.
"carrying water" here meaning defending whatever any pro-genocide centrist does.
lol
You've always found genocide hilarious, yes.
And that's why many leftist don't like the half-measures
... because they think accelerationism would have worked?