• HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The American left needs to fall out of love with cannibalism.

    I don’t care why Harris wants to do the right thing now.

    Allow people to save face and change their positions - attacking them for “flip flops” is to say “No reasonable adult should ever change their mind about anything” which is not only bananas, but discourages people from doing critical thinking because they’d face humiliation for reversing course.

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      3 hours ago

      in politics, words are cheap. I’ll believe her when she DOES something significant to demonstrate her new found beliefs. Until then, doubt.

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        54 minutes ago

        Honestly I have no idea what this meme’s context is.

        I believe her just as much as I believe anyone else’s word: Little to none.

        But clowning on her because she apparently announced her intent to back Democratic Socialists is… dumb for reasons I stated.

        This is just a classic incidence of Purity Testing and I reject it on principle, not because I think Harris is especially virtuous or deserving of defense. As I said, cannibalism is counter-productive and it loses elections. I hope all the people who smugly sat home refusing to vote for Harris are happy that Trump won.