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 @loudpenitent and
Leaving everything else one might say about Biden, I don't even get the sense that he personally hates Donald Trump, even after everything Trump has done to fuck with him and his son personally And I see this as an obvious weakness in his character that might doom us all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Why is it important that Biden hate Trump?
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Replying to @SophiaCharmed @Nymphomachy and
Because it is very, very important that Trump and all those who supported him be *punished*, that they suffer consequences
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SophiaCharmed and
To be fair, that doesn't necessarily require *hate*, it requires a dedication to justice.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @SophiaCharmed and
No, not when there are constant obstacles and difficulties thrown in the path of justice An abstract devotion to justice is a weak-stomached thing that usually crumples in the face of the overwhelming temptation to do the easy thing and get on with life
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South African Truth and Reconciliation used to be held up as this shining example of compassion and cooperation triumphing over hate and leading to a better future Now, decades on, that better future hasn't really materialized, and "reconciliation" turns out to be "surrender"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Black South Africans shouldn't have settled for the whites' apologies, however florid and eloquent they were They should've kept pushing until they took all their fucking money and land But their leaders' hate was no longer pure
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SophiaCharmed and
Suffice to say I'm not convinced, but I'm also not convinced it's as simplistic a situation as you're painting it in the first place.
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