Another call for those who are marginalized and oppressed to reach out and show compassion for those who hate them. Why does no one write an article calling for fascists to de-escalate?
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Nonviolence doesn’t have the best track record against Nazis.
It’s an excellent and honorable tactic in other circumstances.
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I agree.
I just think it’s not an effective strategy to confront those calling for our eradication.
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People don’t seem to understand that different circumstances call for different tactics.
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I’m not so non-plussed by both sides / centrists, but goodness, I do wish we had rules against centrists who only seem to parrot right wing fascist ideologies.
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“centrists”
Yeah. Like Ernst Roehm.
ETA: scare quotes are doing some heavy lifting here.
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My brain is trying to wrap itself around this, given that nonplussed means “surprised, confused, and unsure of how to act or what to say,” but in the popular vernacular is commonly used in the sense of “unruffled and calm.”
So, are you not so surprised and not so unsure how to act, or are you not so calm and not so unruffled?
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Now we’ve arrived at the “maybe the people banning books have a point” stage of our current slide into fascism 
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Oh no! Won’t somebody think of the bipartisan deals! /s
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They can be less effective?
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Where were any of them when it came time to pass the voting rights act?
Or worse; with Manchin actively blocking it.
If there was ever a time for “the middle” to step up, it was in defense of the basic, fundamental right to fair representation. And they DID NOT.
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I’d thought this arsehole would have gone for the Greens when he started his inevitable third-party run, but this pack of smug Bothsideist idiots (and well-known champions of the natiral environment /s) appropriate too.
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This would be my preferred rout for him, if he must run. I suspect the number of folks who would vote Libertarian, but might vote Dem is much smaller than the same comparison with Green.
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and, just to underline that, the money hasn’t even been released to qatar yet. it’s still sitting unspent in south korea. ( i’d wonder if now it ever will be released. i’d kind of assume not )
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POPPY HARLOW (CO-HOST): How can they not coalesce in a moment like this? How do you explain it?
DAVID GREGORY (CNN POLITICAL ANALYST): I don’t have an explanation. I think it’s another embarrassment for the Republican Party. Mike McFaul, who is a very serious lawmaker from Texas from the Homeland Security Committee said the world is burning. The world is on fire. And we can’t seem to come to an agreement on a leader. It’s a real problem. I mean at the end of the week here with all this chaos among Republicans but much graver circumstances around the world. I actually have my eye on Democrats. How long are Democrats going to stand by in the world of identity politics, and zero-sum politics, and not be part of any solution? We’ll see. I think there’s more cards to be played before Democrats jump in. But I think people who don’t follow this day in and day out like we do, they’re looking up and they’re wondering whether Washington has the ability to do their job, to pass bills, pass legislation, make sure the government is funded, let alone play a role on the world stage which is what America is still expected to do.
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