“Perfect is the enemy of good” is not a phrase that can be applied to *human rights* and it’s really disturbing how many people don’t understand that
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They basically want to say; "No human rights violations whatsoever is the enemy of good."
aug 8, 2025, 6:02 am • 7 1 • view
A lot of folks really need to read "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
aug 8, 2025, 5:55 am • 6 1 • view
"Everything in moderation" doesn't mean it's okay to eat a little cyanide and mercury, but those disingenuous brain donors seem to think that's how it works. When you stand for nothing you fall for anything.
aug 8, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
my brother in Steven, some things in this world refuse binary classification. It's a false dichotomy that you're peddling there.
aug 8, 2025, 5:48 am • 1 0 • view
Bad is the enemy of good, and bad doesn't recognize good. It does recognize power. And it recognizes capitulation and negotiation as weakness. You wanna watch these nazis back the fuck off? Dig your heels in. You wanna see why Kier Starmer is losing both the right and left? Because the left 1
aug 8, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Sees him as a weasel and the right sees him as a bitch. You want the paradox of fash power? If you punch them in the face, they kneel to you just as much as they do to a strongman. They only go for the strongman because they think he's strong. You break him? You win. 2/2
aug 8, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
in a housework analogy, perfect is the enemy of good when you paint a wall a new color, not when you wire for electricity.
aug 8, 2025, 5:05 am • 21 3 • view
Also it doesn't mean "do nothing because perfection is unobtainable", it means "don't make something good worse by trying to make it perfect"
aug 8, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 1 • view
Excellent point
aug 8, 2025, 3:52 am • 2 0 • view
"So's outright bad, dingus"
aug 8, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
“Once that is done and we are moving forward I guess if you want to you can bicker about perfect.” Why has this bullshit been the line for literally my entire life?
aug 8, 2025, 4:06 am • 32 0 • view
Cuz it's been the line since at least Reconstruction, back when the parties hadn't swapped yet, meaning the Republicans were the nominally progressive feckless neoliberals and the Democrats were the agents of pure human evil.
aug 15, 2025, 8:35 am • 1 0 • view
Very reminiscent of 70s feminists wanting to exclude lesbians
aug 8, 2025, 7:52 am • 6 2 • view