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(24,772 posts)onecaliberal
(32,898 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)FakeNoose
(32,767 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)and the sooner and more often, the better.
Stinky The Clown
(67,819 posts)Consider that stolen.
We need MUCH more of this!
calimary
(81,500 posts)joelg
(18 posts)We need to stop bringing knives to gunfights, asitwere.
Sky Jewels
(7,140 posts)Warpy
(111,352 posts)so you know which left I hail from.
Seems like there are a lot more people who need to be offended than there were 50+ years ago.
Funtatlaguy
(10,887 posts)niyad
(113,576 posts)mjvpi
(1,389 posts)niyad
(113,576 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)I raise this point often in arguments with ignorant racist fuckheads who invariably say something like "If you don't tolerate my views than YOU'RE the real bigot."
I ask them to name something else that they require to accommodate its incompatible opposite. Anything at all.
Of course they can't, because no such thing exists. And because they're ignorant racist fuckheads.
BannonsLiver
(16,460 posts)Instead, we cant even take shots at Josh Hawley without some super lame debate about word usage.
miyazaki
(2,250 posts)BITCH soon enough, if we don't start setting things right fast.
Cyrano
(15,060 posts)Today's Republican Party really is made up of many would-be Nazis.
I know that many Americans can't or won't see this. But if they take full power, perhaps the resurgence of concentration camps will convince them. Of course, by then, it will be too late.
dai13sy
(340 posts)I wish I had posted this. So perfect!
TFRD
(205 posts)I was wondering when "We" were going to advertise the fact that...
"WE ARE HERE!"
(~÷)
TONY!
Skittles
(153,193 posts)YES INDEED
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Yuns bastards coming for seconds.
llashram
(6,265 posts)so true... We must pick up our fight game...
Upthevibe
(8,072 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,341 posts)Here's a quote -
The middle ground is not halfway between Nazis and antiracists. The reasonable position is not a compromise between rapists and feminists, slaveowners and abolitionists, Natives and General Crook. The truth is not midway between the liar and the truthteller. That has to be a factor in all those calls for reaching out and unity. The murderer and his intended victim don't have to agree on what's right. The people who were harmed don't have to reach out to those who did the harming. The people who told the truth don't need to make liars feel better about themselves or what they said. Those who were targeted by this war don't have to do all the peacemaking. Being gracious, issuing invitations -- sure for those who are up to it and see ways to do it constructively -- but not compromising or normalizing hate and discrimination and destruction. If reaching out and finding unity is good, the haters and liars can go find some olive branches and apologies and do the work to leave their will to destroy the rest of us behind.
Then it begins. The party of hate never had a mandate; they lost the popular vote last time and this time; they may think of themselves as the real Americans and the gatekeepers but we don't have to, and we don't have to enter their gates or play by their rules. We don't have to hate them either, but we don't have to protect them from the consequences of their choices or sell out our principles for their comfort. When you stand on the ground of truth and justice, let others find their way to you. If you stand firm, many will in the end. Not everyone will; that does not change what truth and justice are.
~~ Rebecca Solnit - https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-on-not-meeting-nazis-halfway/
Also - Stealing that image.