Lissa Guillet
Trans-woman, Coder, Writer.
- I really feel like more people need to constructively engage with this! You can think the moderation/centrism discourse is often braindead (as I do!) but the center left really needs a pretty robust convo about what winning, say, an Iowa or Kansas or Texas or Ohio senate seat would look like.
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View full threadLike what do they actually mean? It is important when people say “moderate” they say what they mean. Because every time it reminds me of this.
- It’s fair especially right now in a world with only maga republicans. A moderate should be someone who wants progress but to do it slow enough that it doesn’t cause great upheaval; that mistakes can be fixed when the impact isn’t so large. I think that’s a decent stance even though I’m further left.
- I desperately need other leftists to stop putting politicians on a pedestal. Even your faves. You are letting them convince you of some real mischaracterizations. It’s upsetting.
- the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak
- That is some supervillain bullshit.
- ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her. It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- "Just change the party from inside"
- Far better article thehill.com/homenews/cam...
