Ok, wait, so a candidate should pass a purity test, but there's no viable candidate and no purity test? Sorry, Im getting confused.
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I can see that you're getting confused. It's evident in how you're inventing premises to be confused by. Would you like to start over and ask a better question?
sep 1, 2025, 3:57 am • 15 0 • view
Yes, I'll start again. (Might need a 2-parter) Im confused why ppl who say candidates shld pass some purity test get angry if others say theyre expecting candidates to pass some purity test. For ex: Cand A takes AIPAC $, B isn't pro-trans enuf, C's ok w/Ai. Theres always something, none perfect...
sep 1, 2025, 4:22 am • 3 0 • view
The problem is that what Dems are complaining about isn't a "purity test." If I hand you a gold bar, you can test it for the purity of the gold. If I hand you a cow pie & ask "what purity is this gold?" That is an insane question. You can't meaningfully talk about testing the cow pie for purity.
sep 1, 2025, 5:05 am • 9 0 • view
Dems are talking about running candidates who oppose civil rights & fundamentally are not progressive, & talking about "purity tests". So if that's the language they want to use, then fine, but they need to accept they the burden is on them to purify themselves.
sep 1, 2025, 5:05 am • 10 0 • view
Of course, no one *wants* a cow pie on its own, but a wall of cow pies and gold is strong enough to stop a flood promising full scale death and destruction. There are not enough gold bars to stop a deluge, so many wonder why wouldn't ppl want to manage the giant threat first?
sep 1, 2025, 5:23 am • 1 0 • view
To be clear, your "flood" has no place in the metaphor. Newsom is actively courting the far right so he can publicly agree with them. If you want to use a "flood" in the metaphor, then remove the cow pie entirely, & consider how one would test the flood for it's purity as a bar of gold.
sep 1, 2025, 5:33 am • 1 0 • view
I'm trying to imagine a possible world where you typed that in good faith. Unfortunately, my imagination has limits.
sep 1, 2025, 5:29 am • 8 0 • view
Sorry, why was that hard to understand?
sep 1, 2025, 5:33 am • 0 0 • view
It wasn't hard to understand. It was just such an amazing attempt to divorce the metaphor from reality and paint it on to a reality that doesn't exist, that I can't imagine that you could've typed it in good faith.
sep 1, 2025, 5:35 am • 3 0 • view
I think we were talking about 2 different things. I wasn't talking about Newsom at all.
sep 1, 2025, 5:38 am • 1 0 • view
Then we most definitely are talking about teo different things, because I'm talking about current events.
sep 1, 2025, 7:02 am • 3 0 • view
Blud, just say you hate transsexuals people. We understand, it's the inherent urge of a liberal to throw minorities under the bus.
sep 1, 2025, 5:42 am • 1 0 • view
Congratulations, you're as smart as a bot.
sep 1, 2025, 5:51 am • 0 0 • view
Congratulations, you are as moral as Dick Cheney.
sep 1, 2025, 5:58 am • 1 0 • view
The <2 evils ppl understand that there is no purity, & see the 2 evils not as crap vs crap, but as crap vs immediate danger, Defcon 1, bitches gotta go. (Oops 3 parts, sorry...)
sep 1, 2025, 4:22 am • 2 0 • view
So my ? is why are ppl using any 1 major prob as a litmus test or decision maker if it kneecaps our ability to oust someone who fails every litmus test that exists? Ty.
sep 1, 2025, 4:22 am • 2 0 • view
The problem here is that we're not expecting someone to be perfect, we're expecting them to have acceptable positions on the big picture stuff. The Democrats ensure that such people don't make it through their rigged primary process, and instead we're left with trash like Clinton, Biden, and Harris.
sep 1, 2025, 4:37 am • 2 0 • view
Yes, I respect that.
sep 1, 2025, 5:02 am • 1 0 • view
Congratulations on winning the debate as demonstrated by the insult only replies. Absolutists thinkers… they group anyone who disagrees with them in the slightest as “evil”.
sep 1, 2025, 4:29 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutism is ok, I think; genocide bad is a good ethic. Direct actors & enablers shld be tossed. My immediate concern is having power to do that. If current regime stays, genocide continues in + quickly spreads globally. Same w trans hate, deportations, loss of life, rights, etc. Lotta issues rn
sep 1, 2025, 4:47 am • 1 0 • view
HAVING MORAL OR ETHICAL STANDARDS IS NOT A FUCKING PURITY TEST, MOTHERFUCKER!
sep 1, 2025, 4:34 am • 1 0 • view
Old age should hurry up because your brain is rotting at an incredible rate.
sep 1, 2025, 4:03 am • 6 0 • view
Yes, because lazy ageism is a sign of great intelligence.
sep 1, 2025, 4:27 am • 0 0 • view
Fuck your old ass, Methuselah.
sep 1, 2025, 4:34 am • 2 0 • view
That sounds like the sort of thing an old fool might say. Keep rotting.
sep 1, 2025, 4:30 am • 6 0 • view
I wouldn't say it.
sep 1, 2025, 4:32 am • 1 0 • view
You aren't a fool 😉
sep 1, 2025, 4:35 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, ok. You too.
sep 1, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
I'm not elderly though. You are.
sep 1, 2025, 4:55 am • 3 0 • view
Ok
sep 1, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
How does it feel to be rotting?
sep 1, 2025, 5:09 am • 2 0 • view
Fine. Thanks for asking.
sep 1, 2025, 5:24 am • 0 0 • view
I would have hoped it hurt for you.
sep 1, 2025, 5:25 am • 1 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 5:41 am • 1 0 • view