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My biggest fear is that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
“The white liberal must honestly ask himself why he supported the movement in the first place. If he supported it for the right reasons, he will continue to support it in spite of the confusions of the present moment. But if he supported the movement for the wrong reasons, he will find every available excuse to withdraw from it now, and he will discover that he was inoculated with so mild a form of commitment that he was immune to the genuine moral article.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
Did you mistake Lemmy for a mirror?
Are you one of the folks who said we shouldn’t vote for Bernie because he wrote a New York Times best seller and became a millionaire, so he’s not working class?
Haha
Not at all. I was for Bernie. He doesn't have a Nazi tattoo, hasn't served in the infantry, doesn't like killing people, hasn't had multiple deployments, nor became a mercenary. He wasn't perfect, but he was more perfect than Platner.
I don't really know how you think that supports your argument? That is kinda my fear with Platner, that his service will not be true to his words, and he will fail to live up to his commitments.
That is unless that MLK quote was aimed at me? In that case...... I'm not white, and I'm not a liberal.
In this metaphor the white liberal is someone who supports progressive values in theory, but when it comes time to make the change they get cold feet in favor of the status quo.
You don’t have to be white to be a white liberal. You just have to keep using disingenuous cable news talking points.
Again.... This is my fear about Platner. I would love to be wrong about it. I just don't see any evidence in his background that assuages my fears.
What cable news is talking about his class history and his voluntary service to maintain the hegemony?
I mean..... That's an oddly specific fear? Besides that, am I wrong in any particular way? Is there anything that gives you confidence he is sincere in his beliefs?
I would love to be wrong about the guy, but we really don't have anything to work with besides his history.
I've met plenty of vets who went left because of their time in the service, and I don't hold that against them. I can't say the same about a military contractor though. And most of the guys I know who went left after their service didn't need to do multiple tours while enlisted, and then another in the guard to come up with that opinion.
I think the point is the primary is over and there is no way he will be worse than Collins. Hemming and hawing at this point just carries water for the establishment.
So the answer to my question is no, nothing I said is inaccurate. You have nothing but faith that he will live up to his commitments, or that he is genuine in any way.
And I'm sure you were totally reasonable about validating your faith before the primaries......
I can speak my mind whenever I want. Telling people to just operate on faith alone is how the DNC keeps getting stuck with people like simea and fetterman. Your unfounded faith deserves criticism at all times.
FYI am not OP... Just guessing at their sentiment.
I guess the other option is to vote for the senator who has been there 29 years and spit in the face of progressive values and agenda, the working class, and supports the Israeli fascist regime and endless stupid wars.
You’re using disingenuous talking points of cable news
First of all..... Did I tell anyone to vote for Collins? Are we not supposed to critically think about candidates?
Pretty sure I said " I don't think he's going to be a worse option than Collins, but I fear there's going to be a lot of people on the left are going to be disappointed in his tenure if he wins."
Secondly, how is anything I said disingenuous? Besides that, nothing I said is mirroring mainstream news, who are mainly focusing on his tattoo or his infidelity, which I don't really care about.
I'm talking about his class history.