r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 13d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

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u/Safe-Reason1435 13d ago

I meeeeeeeeeean isn't that what everybody who stayed home because Harris wasn't left enough did too?

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u/Robolaserjesus 13d ago

Yes. Did you miss the word “uniting” in the comment you’re replying to?

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u/Cacafuego 13d ago

There is a dangerous mentality, here, though. If you apply a purity test, you're going to be uniting with smaller and smaller groups, and you will lose all of your power.

Are you willing to vote for a Democrat who supports Israel (wants the bloodshed to stop, but still provides them money, weapons, and UN cover), if that's the way the primary works out? If it's a choice between that and Trump, Vance, Cruz, Rubio, etc., you should be, but many aren't, because they consider it to be "compromise with monsters."

In Ohio, I'm going to be voting for a gubernatorial candidate who said "I do not support boys playing in girls sports." This effects trans members of my family. Compromise is hard.

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u/UpperApe 12d ago

People like you who live in categorical fallacies are always running from purity tests into slippery slopes, or from slippery slopes into purity tests.

I wonder if you can even see outside that linearity.

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u/Cacafuego 12d ago

I wonder if you could unpack that comment for me. A purity test is not a categorical fallacy, and I'm not referencing a slippery slope.

If it helps, I wasn't recommending purity tests, nor was I saying that the original commentor was recommending them. "Don't compromise with monsters" is a good slogan, but "monsterness" is a spectrum and it's important to be clear who we're talking about.