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Mamdani balanced the NYC budget (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by favoredponcho@lemmy.zip to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] bss03@infosec.pub 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tolerance doesn't mean someone can't be mean to you. It means they give you the same rights they expect you to give them.

This includes the right to say "get fucked" to others and to disassociate from people that are likely to say "get fucked" to you.

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Listen sweaty, Martin Luther King didn't create the underground railroad by telling people to get fucked, okay? He was all about nonviolence AKA, ya know being nice to people?? Preeeettttyyy suuuure I know what I'm talking about here.

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Please, dear readers, don't make me submit to the /s degradation, I'll do it like this instead lol

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone who thinks you're being earnest here is beyond hope lol

[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago

I think you're right, I'm sometimes more subtle than I mean to be but not this time lol