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Tennessee GOP votes to keep Confederate flags in classrooms but ban pride flags (www.dailykos.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a socialist. For 30 years. An actual activist IRL. Beaten by cops for the first time at age 12, tear gassed multiple times, led protests in NYC, yadda yadda. Sorry, you called out the wrong Internet stranger. There's no y'all. I'm who you believe you are. I want what you purport to want. I also think your personal world view is not grounded in reality and reflects mental illness not that far off from the orange cult. Zero sum game.

The party taking women's agency and promoting fascism is worse than the party that is not. And if you cared about women, trans kids, black people, Muslims, refugees, LGBTQIA+ people, educators, healthcare workers, unionists, any person of color or member of any out group, you'd prioritize protecting them.

Who are you to sacrifice all those people for your ideological screeching about how you wish things were without any actual plan in mind to improve things?

Explain yourself. Don't whataboutism. Respond to the above. I don't think you can. You're selfish. You don't give a shit about other people. You're a loud snowflake troll. I know because I used to be you. Then I grew up and thought about the actual people around me, not the ideological ones I pretended to fight for.

What are you doing to protect your community besides proudly electing a government that stands for its demise, and the demise of your comrades? Seriously, I'm asking.