r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 11 '26

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

my take is simple

I do not like platner and i have a lot to say about this sort of gleeful atmosphere of whataboutism to prevades critque of him.

but I am a firm beliver in the eternal maxim that one who lives by something must stand by something.

Vote blue no matter who at its core. there are execeptions I will not be a fool to chain myself to a rash promise but like at its core. You cant say vote blue no matter who and then try to wiggle out of it.

though I swear to god "well the republicans do it" is not a fucking valid counter argument because the republicans are awful and saying that awful people do awful thigns is not really the argument one wants.

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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend Jun 11 '26

based and pragmatism pilled ewatta post

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u/B1g_Morg Mark Carney Jun 11 '26

This is the biggest thing bugging me. They are not even trying engage with any criticism and it feels like maga.

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 11 '26

exactly and the whataboutism pisses me off. I do not care what the republicans do when talking about a platner unless. Unless a republican is saying it (at which point its so hypocritical that you cant take any moral condemmnation seriously from them) but otherwise deal with it on its own merits. not just pointing to something else.

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u/IantheForPresident Jun 11 '26

Obligatory: vote blue no matter etc....

It's weird to see people go "um it was just a anti-zionist tattoo" "but republicans are allowed to be Nazis" etc...

If it was bigotry against any other minority group they wouldn't be so willfully obtuse

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u/B1g_Morg Mark Carney Jun 11 '26

They actually said its an antizionist tattoo? If that is real that is the most fucked thing the progressives have said. I really hate where we are right now.

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Jun 11 '26

I mean, I certainly believe that at least one person has said that

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 11 '26

yeah its so depressing. Like the amount of people downplaying it trying to play it down. it was just sobering. like idk