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Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

So my takeaway should be that moderates are contemptable, so fuck 'em. I should rather lose and let the fascists take over then find a way to work with them. After all, I'd still have my high opinion of myself to keep me warm at night.

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Angie's avatar

This is why I will never go along even with some of your (their) ( general

you)more reasonable ideas...

As long as you think you are superior to moderates and be condescending and arrogant, why would we?

You don't win converts by insulting them

And good luck getting major things done without us (I am willing to compromise and I neither think I am all right and better than you, nor that we have to be enemies) ...unless, like your mirror image on the right you intend to kill us all?

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Craig Butcher's avatar

Yes, when they come for me in the black Lada on my way to to concentration camp, I'll have the satisfaction of knowing I was right about them all along. We can high five each other! If they put us in the same cell.

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Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

"black Lada" - Love it

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Craig Butcher's avatar

Actually it might be a couple of Proud boys in an F-150.

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Amy H.'s avatar

F-150s are for female genitalia. 3/4 ton Silverados, Sierras, and Rams with a base price of 70-80k are Maga approved.

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Craig Butcher's avatar

I wouldn't know, I'm an effete liberal with two honda fits.

But around here there are a lot of F-150's and many of the guys who drive them have tatoos and MAGA stuff decorating their trucks and their persons.

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suzc's avatar

there are a lot of fake tough guys

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Paul Mccrary's avatar

How is it "moderate" to vote for a party who has direct ties to white nationalists like VDare, Nick Fuentes, and The Oath Keepers?

What good is compromising with said moderates on basic voting and civil rights protections? Sounds like you lose nothing if these people get their way, so it's no skin off your nose if they take over. Must be nice to be in such a safe situation

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Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

Real world politics: I live in Nebraska. The Democrats are running a weak candidate for governor who obviously has no chance of winning. So the race for governor in reality is between three Republicans in the Republican primary. I'm a registered Democrat but I am considering temporarily registering as a Republican so I can vote in the primary which is the real election. (I will still vote for the Democrat in the general.) One of the three Republican candidates is being attacked in advertising for "wokeness" for saying that he "see's racism everywhere." (He's on videotape saying exactly that.) Does this candidate have direct ties to "white nationalists like VDare, Nick Fuentes, and The Oath Keepers?" I certainly believe that charge would be unfair. In the real world, I find Manichean worldviews like yours not very helpful.

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