*shrug* Hatred is one of the core animating impulses of all human beings, a movement or organization that doesn't tap into it at all is one that's only half-alive Hate, as they say, is the other side of the coin we call love If you don't hate anyone you don't really love either
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Alexander Cockburn famously had as his litmus test question for interns he hired at Counterpunch, "Is your hate pure?" He told a story about asking this question to Ed Miliband and Miliband sputtering "I don't -- I've never hated anyone!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
And said that in that moment it was obvious to him that New Labour would fail in all its goals, and obvious exactly how it would fail
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KittenBalerion and
Yeah, honestly, I consider that all edgelord posturing to lionize people's giving in to their worst impulses because it makes them feel good.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
This is the exact same thing as the Green Lantern theory of politics; that which makes me feel good, which soothes my fury in the face of an unjust world and gives me a sense of moral purity and power, is automatically efficacious and good, not that which actually gets results.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
biden basically doesn't hate anyone and this is very specifically exactly why I will absolutely be dead before I'm fifty years old
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
I'm impressed by your powers of augury.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy and
My compromise on this is that I try very hard not to hate people, and instead, focus that rage on deeds/ideas/events/etc.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent and
You know the saying "Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, little minds discuss people" I fucking hate it Ideas only matter because of the people who hold them, and people acting on ideas is the cause of all events
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
It's the kind of thing people say inside safe ivory towers Who think that slavery ended because of some kind of abstraction like "industrial capitalism outpacing agrarianism" and not the actual Civil War
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And who think of the Civil War itself as an abstraction -- an event -- as opposed to something that only mattered because a whole lot of specific people who supported slavery were shot to pieces and left as food for the worms
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