He stopped *one* thing, yet continued in the negative behavior in all other aspects. That's like giving a kid a cookie because they stopped hitting one kid, but continued hitting a bunch of others.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
there's a difference between stopping hitting one kid and doing this but also standing up against all of his friends that are hitting that kid to stop that kid from being hit and this metaphor just got confusing and it's irrelevant anyways. there's no cookies being rewarded.
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En réponse à @randileeharper @ChrisWarcraft
when did acknowledgement of someone unexpectedly doing a good thing become a cookie? if saying "this is a good thing" is some kind of reward, shouldn't we do that more often to encourage others to also do good things?
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En réponse à @randileeharper
Yes, we should, but why so much focus on McCain? He's constantly made out to be this maverick and yet when you look at his voting record, with one notable exception, he's just as much an asshole as the rest of that racist party.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft
i'm not focusing on him. i'm focusing on the current news of him stopping treatment for brain cancer, and how i saw someone saying something similar but then watching them get dogpiled. why acknowledge anything good ever if that's what twitter looks like?
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En réponse à @randileeharper @ChrisWarcraft
the point isn't even really him. it's that in the past 5 years, it became a radical act to say "this person that i don't like did one thing that i do like" and that is fucking terrifying.
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En réponse à @randileeharper
No, it hasn't. There are plenty of people I disagree with who I can praise when they do something good. You are, in this case, talking about someone who is *a bad person*, and who has consistently shown that through his actions.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @randileeharper
If we tolerate evil simply because it occasionally does something that benefits us, we are complicit in that evil.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @randileeharper
this is basically taking the position that we shouldn't ever negotiate or attempt to find consensus with those we disagree with (because it makes us "complicit in evil"). this is where resistance ends and radicalism begins.
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En réponse à @TheREALeataTREE @ChrisWarcraft
and this is what is scary. it's not that i'm saying we have to negotiate or debate or whatever the fuck people call it nowadays. it's that any step away from "this person is evil and everything they do is evil" is likely to get you ostracized and put into the same evil bucket.
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That's a hell of a leap there at the end.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @TheREALeataTREE
is it though? have you been looking at the replies to the top tweets under this news, because i have.
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and it's not even just about mccain. that's just the latest topic of contention. i hate all of this.
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