• hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Why aren’t you asking the actually influential people to stop damaging the left?

    You mean like this:

    Michael Moore has plenty of good takes, but this is a fucking awful one.

    He's wrong on this, but you have a bad approach, too.

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Michael Moore is a rich lib shitheel who sometimes has good takes. I don't owe him respect any more than I do Jimmy Dore, nor does the left as a whole.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        The point is that an approach of dismissing someone who's more right than most over one shitty take is a fast track to getting nothing done.

        Everyone has a shit take now and then, and everyone indulges in sloppy rhetoric like "fuck this whole country" on occasion.

        • chance [they/them,none/use name]
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          edit-2
          4 years ago

          The consequences of making one's politics the main, or only, aspect of one's personality. Self-righteousness takes precedence over putting those politics into effect. /armchair