I couldn’t snore harder. The worst in you is asking other people to be mean? Oh me oh my I’m quaking in my booties. I’m sure if only you had been a kindler gentler gooder boy you would have won the election. Whatever
So you’d rather have someone be hateful than kind? Like, I get it, MAGA deserves the hate. But is looking down on people for having a conscience really the best mentality to have? Would you call your mom a pussy because she felt bad for saying a curse word?
Nice strawman, but I’m not saying he’s a pussy for feeling bad for cursing. I’m saying, let me be very clear:
The worst in him is apparently calling for Democrats to bully Republicans, which is a silly level of worst to apologize for on account of the fact that:
2: The people he’s calling to bully are fascist, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, corrupt, evil powerful people who are currently dismantling the country
3: It’s ridiculous to say “I should have been nicer” when obviously they didn’t lose because they were mean, and if anything being more mean would have helped them, or at least…
4: Being more mean maybe would at least have driven more people to take aggressive action that may have prevented the current situation
It’s just ridiculous for someone who was 20x nicer than the victorious competition to say they should have been even more nicerer on top of that. Why? What good would it have done? Would you rather your mom be kind to a criminal trying to rob her, or hateful? (See how uncool and ineffective that is to try to drag your mom into things?)
So if I didn’t make it clear enough. I’m not looking down on anyone for “having a conscience”. I think Walz doesn’t have enough of a conscience to bolster himself to do what needs to be done and overcome the paradox of tolerance and hate the opposition enough to make himself a strong opponent rather than a polite little pushover.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I’m just saying that making fun of people for having a conscience about it is just being a shitty person. The people that deserve the hate don’t have a conscience about it and 100% deserve the hate.
I think if the Dems ran on a platform of caring about people and trying to make their lives better instead of a platform of warmongering and performative “toughness”, things would have turned out differently. I would have been much happier about my vote if they had been kinder and gentler by doing things like opposing Israel’s genocide and working to actually improve people’s lives in meaningful ways.
I totally agree, but I think they could have managed to capture the simple nuance of “in order to care about people and make their lives better, we make a special exception for evil assholes, and we do not care about those people or make their lives better”. If I live on an island with ten people and one of them only wants to beat up the others all the time, there’s not really much hypocrisy in me saying “I want to make everyone’s lives better, but this one jerk won’t let us have that, so I guess we have to settle for making everyone’s life better except for his”. Nothing stops the Democrats from knocking it off with the warmongering while still at least speaking harsh words about the true failings of their political opponents.
I couldn’t snore harder. The worst in you is asking other people to be mean? Oh me oh my I’m quaking in my booties. I’m sure if only you had been a kindler gentler gooder boy you would have won the election. Whatever
So you’d rather have someone be hateful than kind? Like, I get it, MAGA deserves the hate. But is looking down on people for having a conscience really the best mentality to have? Would you call your mom a pussy because she felt bad for saying a curse word?
Nice strawman, but I’m not saying he’s a pussy for feeling bad for cursing. I’m saying, let me be very clear:
It’s just ridiculous for someone who was 20x nicer than the victorious competition to say they should have been even more nicerer on top of that. Why? What good would it have done? Would you rather your mom be kind to a criminal trying to rob her, or hateful? (See how uncool and ineffective that is to try to drag your mom into things?)
So if I didn’t make it clear enough. I’m not looking down on anyone for “having a conscience”. I think Walz doesn’t have enough of a conscience to bolster himself to do what needs to be done and overcome the paradox of tolerance and hate the opposition enough to make himself a strong opponent rather than a polite little pushover.
It has its advantages. Hostility prevents the target from thinking straight.
I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. I’m just saying that making fun of people for having a conscience about it is just being a shitty person. The people that deserve the hate don’t have a conscience about it and 100% deserve the hate.
Fair enough.
I think if the Dems ran on a platform of caring about people and trying to make their lives better instead of a platform of warmongering and performative “toughness”, things would have turned out differently. I would have been much happier about my vote if they had been kinder and gentler by doing things like opposing Israel’s genocide and working to actually improve people’s lives in meaningful ways.
I totally agree, but I think they could have managed to capture the simple nuance of “in order to care about people and make their lives better, we make a special exception for evil assholes, and we do not care about those people or make their lives better”. If I live on an island with ten people and one of them only wants to beat up the others all the time, there’s not really much hypocrisy in me saying “I want to make everyone’s lives better, but this one jerk won’t let us have that, so I guess we have to settle for making everyone’s life better except for his”. Nothing stops the Democrats from knocking it off with the warmongering while still at least speaking harsh words about the true failings of their political opponents.
Oh no.