turdcollector69

“I’m troubled by having someone who’s already demonstrated that lack of judgement and awareness”

It would be one thing if he did something criminal or malicious but having had shitty beliefs and then changing them just shows growth.

Judging someone who’s an ostensible ally and who is exactly the kind of change we want to see for having needed the change in the first place is circular logic and ultimately self-alienating.

You say you’re fine with people changing but your logic doesn’t allow for anyone who’s changed their views to be a representative.

At this point it’s not even about ideology anymore but just straight up identity politics.

You’re basically treating him like he’s an ideological felon where he’s allowed to continue existing but can’t participate in politics.

Sorry but I severely don’t buy this original sin level of being forever unworthy just for having had different political beliefs in the past.

We need to normalize growing up instead of relentlessly punishing people for having been misled naive at some point in their life.

You say there’s better people to run but I’d argue that a convert is absolutely the best person to run because it opens the door for more converts.

Heartbreaking:

The person you hate just made a great point

That’s when they cook up some bullshit to fire you and now it’s your red bag is being divided between everyone who’s left.

The whole system is the problem because it’s designed by the ruling class for the ruling class.

I’ve literally never signed any of it. They don’t check your signature and only ever used it for disputes.

At this point if I contest a charge that has my name and not a dick or smiley face then I know it’s fraud.

It will which is why this probably won’t pan out.

Trump has a history of saying idiotic things without following through on them this is almost certainly one of those things he says to stir the pot.

Be on the lookout for him doing some other shit and using this filibuster bluster as cover for infinitely more shady shit.

All this “once an X always an X” rhetoric does is prevent anyone who wants to pull away from trump from doing so.

It’s already difficult enough for people to change, basically telling anyone who wants to change “yeah you can alienate yourself from my enemies but you’ll always be on my shit list” is absolutely not going to win them over and just reinforces that X identity is all they have.

Unless you like losing elections you really need to consider how winning people over is crucially important to any movement.

Purity testing has been the biggest contributor to the downfall of democracy.

If we weren’t so ready to cut each other down trump wouldn’t have gotten the foothold he did.

Until the progressive culture in America gets off its high horse the corporate donors are going to just keep us infighting while they sweep away our rights.

We need to accept that nobody is perfect and to allow anyone who wants to pull away from trump/conservativism to do so.

All this “once a X always a X” rhetoric only reinforces X identity because it denies any possible alternative.

People change.

2016 me would have you think that 2025 me would be the goose stepping leader of the Trump fan club but instead I moved to a liberal city, came out of the closet and have been living a genuine and happy life.

I now despise trump and have come to embrace democratic socialism.

That radical change was directly related to my liberal friends being willing to talk with me and welcome me into their spaces despite our differences.

If we can’t accept that people are capable of change then we’re defaulted into a perpetual conflict where physical violence becomes inevitable.

If things can’t be worked out with words people will result to hands. Those are ultimately the only two tools people have to deal with each other.

Accepting that people can change allows people feel like they have a space to change to. If I didn’t have my friends to welcome me into their liberal space I never would have changed because the social pressure to stay conservative and for fear of being alone.

Imagine the h3h3/Hasan drama if this was a thing

I’m a fan of fat nuts

Many such cases

You know things are cooked when even the mascot looks AI generated

I feel like “expect” is being conflated with “want” because you can expect things you don’t want.

If anything understanding the motivations of a thing is the first step to expecting actions from it.

Yeah all the people praying for a crash are praying for nobody to have retirement funds.

You can easily tell who’s actually employed in this thread because anyone with a 401k is going to get dicked down while the 0.1% get a bailout.

Yeah it appealed to me too but now it doesn’t.

At this point I’m just going to get a flip phone and pretend it’s the 00’s.

Oh yeah the amount of “nice guy” shit I’ve seen posted is insane.

Prove you’re not a bot:

What event happened between April 15th and June 4th 1989 at Tiananmen Square?

If I don’t agree with it then it’s not actually popular. I wish the admins would consult me before choosing the r/all posts

To overlap the next shift would have to come in early or the first would stay late.

So either you make it even harder to come in on time or you permanently institute the issue of running late.

Not to mention that would absolutely just become another dumbass all Hands-On meeting to waste everyone’s time with.

Nah people should just be there when they agreed to, being flaky is not and should not be everyone else’s problem.

I’ve stopped because either it’s been trash games or it’s something that I’d rather play on steam.

Even their exclusives I decided to just wait on because the epic launcher blows.

I don’t think I’m in the majority but I think a non-negligible amount of people would pay a premium to not use epic.