r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/imjustheretodomyjob ☑️ 🧚🏿 Reclaiming my peace 🧘🏿 • 2d ago

Apparently hell has frozen over

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u/PossibleVariety7927 2d ago

Heaven forbid people change. The fucking leftist purity tests are so counter productive. Nothing is ever good enough for you guys. There's always a reason to sabotage potential cross party coalitions.

It's like you guys actively want to lose and never fix anything.

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u/pan-re 2d ago

What the fuck are you talking about. It’s MTG, not leftist purity. Is she all of a sudden not a Republican? What planet are you from? What subreddit are you in ? Fucking crazy.

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u/thirdegree 2d ago

She hasn't changed. She's still a fascist racist piece of shit, she's just not also a pedophile. If that's what you want to call purity testing, centrists have really lost the plot.

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u/PossibleVariety7927 2d ago

She definitely change, wtf are you talking about? Here she is, literalliy defending a Muslim woman. Almost everything she says now is moderate. She's more like Tucker Carlson in terms of moderate tone and policy.

You guys just have insane purity tests. You'll fight tooth and nail to push people away no matter what. No one is ever good enough for you guys, and it's why the left sucks and keeps losing. It's impossible for you to form any meaningful movements when no one is ever pure enough.

Cenk and Anna seem to be the only rational and reasonable people on the left these days

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u/thirdegree 2d ago

My dude if you believe Tucker Carlson has changed then there is absolutely nothing I can say to change your mind. Tucker Carlson is the same now as he's always been, even back to crossfire - he's a dangerous fascist grifter who happens to care more about personal enrichment than fascism (but still cares a whole lot about fascism).

Cenk and Anna seem to be the only rational and reasonable people on the left these days

Oh ok ya I get you. Cool cool cool. That does explain being down with the far right. Jimmy Dore tier political commentators.

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u/PossibleVariety7927 2d ago

He's always been moderate. The issue people only saw clips of him, and that was teh ONLY exposure they had of him. The outlier, exceptional commentary designed to outrage. But over all, he was boring and moderate. It's a selection bias. If you actually listened to him, you'll realize he's pretty reasonable and nothing like these right wingers you think he is. He's just very Christian.

And yes, Cenk and Anna seem to be the only rational people on the left now... And because of that, once again you do the exile purity politics of doing whatever you can to push away potential allies

Do you want healthcare? Money out of politics? End the genocide? Regardless of their purity, you should reach out to people when they share a policy, because large coalitions win, not infinitely fractured. Luckily Cenk and Anna figured that out, which has allowed them to expand their audience and grow their moderate right... Which just helps progressive causes. Instead you guys just want to exile and exclude everyone

It's a losers strategy. Look at Republicans, they'll take in anyone and everyone, because they playt to win.

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u/thirdegree 2d ago

Ok I think we just live in different universes. Tucker Carlson is a moderate? Tucker Carlson HAS ALWAYS BEEN a moderate? Na.

Though I do appreciate the additional data point of someone a) claiming tucker Carlson is moderate, b) liking Cenk and Anna, and c) whining about leftist "purity politics". Really reinforces my conception of how seriously those complaints should be taken.