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blueseas

(11,702 posts)
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 07:26 PM Nov 2024

And Yet It Moves

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Reconsider Any Belief In Innate American Goodness: Are Americans inherently good, freedom-loving, devoted to free speech and free worship, committed to all people being created equal


Start Out Making a Small Difference: A country that votes for Trump is broken in very complicated and daunting ways. Harris could have won in a landslide and 45% of the people voting for Trump would still have reflected a country broken in terrible ways.


In Schindler’s List, Stern tells Schindler “whoever saves one life saves the world entire.” So save the world that way — one fellow American at a time. You can’t stand up alone against all the Trumpist bullies in America, but maybe you can stand up to a few local ones in defense of a neighbor

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Things are worth believing and fighting for. Did you ever see a Trumpist moderate or express doubt? No. Trump spewed loathsome bigotry and lies and ignorance and promoted terrible and cruel policies, many of which he may actually implement. The fact he won big doesn’t mean you were wrong to oppose those things and condemn them

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And Yet It Moves (Original Post) blueseas Nov 2024 OP
Right now I don't care for many of them Dem4life1234 Nov 2024 #1
more like entitled idiots CatWoman Nov 2024 #3
Fuck Civility blueseas Nov 2024 #2

Dem4life1234

(2,526 posts)
1. Right now I don't care for many of them
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 07:28 PM
Nov 2024

Here's a nation of morons with the attention spans of gnats.

blueseas

(11,702 posts)
2. Fuck Civility
Sun Nov 10, 2024, 07:34 PM
Nov 2024

But please don’t be conned by the cult of civility and discourse, the “now is the time to come together” folks

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