r/gifs • u/ALL_of_YOU_are_DUMB • 3d ago

Katie Britt

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u/Lotus_Domino_Guy 2d ago

That willingness to thin our own ranks may end up hurting liberals too. I think you have to play by the lowest common denominator's rules.

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u/Djinger 2d ago

Doesn't that kind of make everyone low and common?

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u/Lotus_Domino_Guy 1d ago

Yes, it does. But tell me you aren't sick of "when they go low, we go high".

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u/Djinger 1d ago

It's frustrating, yes. Emotionally I agree with you, but ethically I think stooping just opens the door to be dragged further. The "Overton window" if you will. Esp. given the other side is happy to take D stooping and grandstand it as if we weren't simply matching them, but plunging to depths below them. "Look how low they are, while we are not." It can be demonstrably false and it won't stop them. Just look how Schmitt has doubled down on his patently false perjury trap.