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@blogdiva

The problem with the #left is so many judgments out there are absolute

But the only way to get #progress in this world is to be relative:

Is someone moving in a good direction, regardless of where they are starting from?

Then you applaud that

That is true #morality

Absolutism is just ego masturbation. It doesn't change the world

So I mourn the passing of #PopeFrancis

I recognize the good he did in the confines he operated in, on issues dear to the left

And so should you

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@grumble209 @MannyDexter @MrBirch @todymotmot @wendinoakland @profdc9 @zakalwe

do you know who votes constantly party line?

#MAGA

do you know who shows up for the #primaries?

MAGA

do you what the #GOP is today?

MAGA

can the left take over the dems like that?

yes

well no

as long as the #left is whiny voices making excuses for impotent cynicism

they don't show the fuck up

useless self-defeating assholes

bad #candidates are *an effect* of not enough voting not *a cause*

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@GutterPoetry @grumble209 @todymotmot @wendinoakland @profdc9 @zakalwe

absolutely

#left candidates need to speak to hearts not just minds

illustration: #trump beat #harris

you can't depend upon mere strategy to turn the #vote out

we must have left leaning candidates that excite

however, i will still, in my bitterness, despise all the morons on the left who were not moved by the stakes and did not use their mind, and used only their hearts to *immobilize* themselves and help get us trump

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