• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    12 days ago

    I am so fucking sick of people demanding perfection. In this case, perfection is very much the enemy of good. AOC and Sanders are some of the absolute best people currently a part of our political class. Insisting on perfection - especially when your definition of “perfection” would likely alienate a meaningful amount of people who currently support them - is counterproductive to the degree that I question whether people who say that shit are even arguing in good faith.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      The person you replied to quoted World Socialist Website, which is run by a bunch of boomer edgelords who mentally never grew up and still thinks we’re still in the 1960s. The only socialist publisher worth reading is Jacobin, even though I may not agree everything with them.

    • Ferrous@lemmy.ml
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      12 days ago

      You say “perfection”. What I think you meant to say was “principled anti capitalism”.

      I’m not asking for perfection. I’m asking for literally any semblance of solidarity or anticapitalism.

      Regardless, until a truly anti capitalist party gains power, the devolution into fascism will continue.

      In 30 years, when the choice is between a dem who wants 15 genocides and a Republican who wants 16, yall will still be bleating this tired ass “perfection as an enemy of good” motto. Think of a new one, please. Or even try to start defining what your idea of “perfection” actually is.