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I love (by which I mean hate) how 'purity test' has just come to refer to having any uncompromising moral position whatsoever.

Again it's one of those cliche situations of the left wants to not kill Palestinians and the right wants to kill all of them and liberals are like, "but you gotta compromise to get what you want ..."

Though hearing the Biden superpacs are focusing almost entirely on digital stuff makes me hope that most of these are just shills, even the downvoting is inconsistent, like the horde missed some comments or misinterpreted some of the commenters to think they're pro-lib when they're not. Very strange either way.

These people are so v*ush-brained that they think you can have literally any political belief you want and still be a "socialist" so long as you claim to be one and don't voot DrUmPf.

I've seen similar comments from adjacent libs

Sample :

The purity crowd will not forgive any positive interaction with "bad" people. It reminds me of Jehovah's Witnesses demanding people disassociate from "worldly" people and if you refuse to do so they will excommunicate you. Political hobbyists demanding purity actively sabotage the movements they claim to be a part of but their actions show they just want to be part of a social club. I sleep better at night by assuming these people are teenagers.

Sample 2 :

I’ll just say this, and be a little mean about it, if you don’t go vote for Biden you’re a fucking idiot. Yeah, he sucks and he’s a dumb old man. But he isn’t a fascist. Not voting for Biden, is a vote for fascism. Republicans will take control. They will implement project 2025. They will make it illegal for LGBT people to exist in public life. And it will be the last election we ever have.

And yeah, I hear you, “but muh Palestine”. I get it. But do you really fucking think that Trump is going to be favorable to towards them? Do you really want a fascist with fucking nukes in the office when Israel is asking for aid? When Russia is still trying to overtake Ukraine? Just don’t be a dumbass. Go vote for Biden. We can deal with getting him out in 2028. If we vote for him now, we can have an election in 2028 with someone else at least.

They just cry and moan about how commies are throwing them out of groups cause they support genocide. Pathetic.

There was one berating the OOP about how, now that they've cut ties with her, the DSA has less power. Like how could they be so stupid as to do that.

Completely missing the point that they never had her 'power' to begin with, I swear people didn't use to be this dumb about politics but here we are ...

That's the thing though. For supposed socialists, not supporting genocide or opposing a seller colonial entity aren't purity tests. It's practically calling the presence of hemoglobin in red blood cells a purity test.

The thing people are missing when they scream at Redditors about genocide or Gaza to justify dropping support for AOC is that most people including the leftmost Democratic voter who sheds tears about Gaza still feels an abroad Arab person's life to be of lower worth than a White or Asian life on a visceral and subconscious level. I even include most of the people who attended the Free Palestine protests among this, I am sure some swathe of them will object to this move by the DSA too.

You cannot counterargue with these people effectively by mentioning the Gazan death toll, or even sharing gruesome images of civilian casualties, because Israel-Gaza will always be clocked by them as a pet issue in relation to domestic policy. Americans as a whole have sat through too many wars and their accompanying propaganda, and are too poorly traveled to have any better than an elevated noble savage view of any wartorn impoverished nation's people. Even garnering sufficient support for ending the war and blight relies more on appealing to these people's western chauvinism than their sincere empathy for Gazans as fellow human beings

I'm converting to PMC Maoism.

PMC Maoists

Lmao, it's like bizarro-BMF

they're mad that the Stalinist and Marxist Caucuses are winning leadership over DSA rn

File those performative articles of impeachment against Clarence Thomas.

And, "it's what the unions wanted!" about the railroad strike.

But that's the kind of power we lost! How horrible ...

She has turned into a centrist that might still give some lip service to the left now and again

The sucdems can tut-tut and go "how do you expect to build your movement" but if it's a movement of social chauvinists then it doesn't matter.

If the Nazis are winning you should just let the Nazis into your party and then you’ll be winning too

its potential is quite untapped to many hexbears here, like right now the marxist group is kicking out the social democrat leadership

Oh it's absolutely pathetic. They should have cut ties with her when she backpedaled her first marginally pro-palestine interview shortly after she got elected (if I'm remembering correctly, could've been before). But the DSA isn't a serious organization so we get this too little too late severing.

Yes I blame the Republicans for literally proposing policies that want to murder me as a trans person while Biden's DOJ is out there at the Supreme Court right fighting for my right to live.

Wonder why the left has zero solidarity on that

Could have fooled me because there is ZERO JACK SHIT from the Democrats preventing these criminalizations. If there is they certainly aren't publicized anywhere.

Why aren't transgender people seeing progress with Biden. Hmmmmmm....