I don't think people quite understand that no matter how morally depraved someone's reason for voting is and however likely it is God will send them to Hell for it in the future, the vote still counts and materially affects the outcome of the electionhttps://twitter.com/TracyLBaker1/status/1235023534058926081 …
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The way people have turned "pandering" into a swear word, my God If you actually think lives hang in the balance then you want every single vote you can possibly get, including the ones you get for completely shallow, idiotic reasons *Especially* those ones
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If the difference between Bernie and any other candidate is tens of thousands of lives lost each year to lack of health coverage then it's not a good thing at all that Bernie doesn't pander Bernie should be pandering like that blood will be on his hands if he doesn't
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It's just so backwards People act like unwillingness to tell white lies, smile and shake hands with assholes, couch everything in polite fake language, etc is proof you're serious about what you believe To me it's proof that you aren't
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Replying to @arthur_affect
There's a user-end problem here: someone who is shaking hands with assholes and telling white lies to sneak through progressive policy is not observationally distinguishable from an actual status quo politician. That's the whole point of the deception.
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I suppose that's true if the only thing you ever notice about a politician is their tone
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That's the whole thing, this is at heart absolutely a tone argument ON BOTH SIDES and a "virtue signaling" argument ON BOTH SIDES *Nobody* is dispassionately evaluating policy statements, it's all "I'm angry and I want someone else who's angry"
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