• Blakey [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    Newsom IS my enemy. I can indeed compromise and form coalitions with people I don’t agree with if we merely have different priorities. I put fighting global warming ahead of most other causes but I have all the time in the world for people fighting racism or homelessness. I can also compromise with people who have different beliefs as long as we can gree on the important stuff - I am in my personal life a pretty strict/strong atheist but I have less than no problems working with Christians who believe in liberation theology! But my disagreement with Newsom is too fundamental. He is doing the fascist’s work for them. Compromising with him is, thus, compromising with fascists, even if he himself is not one he is effectively in coalition with them by doing their work.

    That’s just… How that works. It may be purity politics to refuse to ally with someone who isn’t advancing some of the causes you’re advancing. It is absolutely not purity politics to refuse to ally with someone who is actively fighting against the causes you care about. I’m not going to fight alongside Newsom’s camp because I would be fighting against my own causes. How is this hard to grasp.

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      14 days ago

      Liberals are so desperate to believe they aren’t on the side of fascism that they endlessly tone police the left because it “makes them look bad.” No you fucking idiots your system elected Trump and gave him a trillion dollar military after elevating him to high society and allowing him to be on TV while being uncomfortably stupid, famously racist, and a literal childremoved. If Trump is Jared then liberalism is fucking Subway.

      Don’t tell us to get on your side you get on our side, John.

      These fucking boneheads are why we’re in this mess.

  • AfterthoughtC-he/him@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    If you take the stuff Newson/ Kamala/ Biden/ non-Zohran democrat supporters say in response to their poor LGBTQ rights/ Palestine etc. track record, remove all names, organisations and other identifiers and show it to a mid-2010s to just after COVID begun era liberal, they would likely call the person saying it a class reductionist tankie.