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   StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 10-May-2023 05:46:15 JST StillIRise1963

   Let me repeat myself ONE MORE TIME. I'm a 59 year old BLACK WOMAN. You have a lot of fucking nerve attempting to tell me about the impure Dems. I've been voting ALL MY LIFE for the lesser of TWO evils. This time, you are voting for your OWN FUCKING SURVIVAL. If you don't get that by now, don't talk to me anymore. I'm tired of your privilege to even say SHIT like that out loud.

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     asbestos (asbestos@toot.community)'s status on Wednesday, 10-May-2023 05:46:18 JST asbestos

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     @StillIRise1963 Yet again people seek to show that the "both sides suck" people are truly the most tedious people ever

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Dave Alvarado (davealvarado@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-May-2023 05:46:18 JST Dave Alvarado

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     @asbestos @StillIRise1963 I use "politicians are all garbage, why bother voting for them?" on every Republican I can find.

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     HydroCabron (hydrocabron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 04:45:06 JST HydroCabron

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     • MeredithW

     @accretionist @TCatInReality @meredithw @StillIRise1963 A few years ago, on some social-media whinefest about the lesser of two evils, came the reply "It's the greater evil for you, then!"

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     MEIDAS TCat Ignores the lies (tcatinreality@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 04:45:07 JST MEIDAS TCat Ignores the lies

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     • MeredithW

     @accretionist @meredithw @StillIRise1963
     What adult reasonably believes they get exactly what they want?

     That's not life. That's not democracy. That's not a mature expectation.

     Democracy isn't going to survive, unless a lot more people return to reality.

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     accretionist (accretionist@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 04:45:07 JST accretionist

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     • MeredithW

     @TCatInReality @meredithw @StillIRise1963

     there's two replies to that:

     1. the genuine brittle idealist who won't participate unless they get perfect

     2. the concern troll voices who realize they can work on that inflexibility and encourage their inaction because the real world is too messy and they "sully" themselves by getting messy as well

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     accretionist (accretionist@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 04:45:08 JST accretionist

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     • MeredithW

     @TCatInReality @meredithw @StillIRise1963 because they expect perfection and if they don't get it they feel like they can detach from the world

     as if bad policies don't affect them

     inflexible idealism is in a way worse than outright malice. you can oppose malice. how do you oppose "i don't care until the world is easy"

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     MEIDAS TCat Ignores the lies (tcatinreality@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 04:45:09 JST MEIDAS TCat Ignores the lies

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     @meredithw @StillIRise1963
     Voting for the "lesser of two evils" is how you get LESS EVIL!

     Why do people struggle to understand that?

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     MeredithW (meredithw@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 04:45:10 JST MeredithW

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     @StillIRise1963 I'm old enough to remember the election of 1968 where people saying they refused to vote for "the lesser of two evils" helped Richard Nixon become president. People are willfully blind to the fact that if they pull that crap, we (and they) end up with the *worse* of two evils, often much worse.