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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Yeah imma need to see evidence
  2. Bless your heart, thank you
  3. Well, the thing is I say shit like that all the time in person. I just smile and look them in the eyes when I do it, plus I’m handsome and tall, but not so much of either that it’s weird. You’d be amazed what you can say to people’s face if you smile and look them in the eye when you say it, so please, know that I am smiling now, and imagine a handsome but approachable man your age looking you right in the eye and saying to you, in a friendly way: read the essay next time. And then I wink at you. And you blush a little, and not in a gay way, not that there would be anything wrong with that, more in a curious way.
  4. “I don’t have time to read this, so let me tell you what I think about it in 1000+ words over the course of several days and a half dozen or so posts. “
  5. You’ve got a leg up on most of the people in this thread, evidenced by the fact that you read the prompt and understood it before you reacted.
  6. Then nothing. Then solidarity. You realize progressives lost these people, right? They were with you, now they aren’t. You lost them, because you didn’t care.
  7. You realize you aren’t in front of a jury, right? I’ve read the piece. I brought it to your attention. So your whole Miss Cleo routine where you speculate on his motivations that follows would need to pass through the filter of my lived experience to get accepted, not to mention the fact that you obviously have no idea about why he or anyone else thinks what they think. Sales, marketing, politics, evangelism even- they aren’t litigation. You’re dealing with deciders who have their own version of the facts and causation before they hear from you. And there’s no referee or independent party to say what’s fair and what’s foul. It all counts.
  8. Fucking monsters. Unreal.
  9. I’m not cutting anybody slack. My problem with the people on this thread, progressives in general and Joe Rogan is the same: I don’t like people who kick down.
  10. What a fucking clown. He’s going to be so sad when he comes in third in the 28 primary
  11. No, I’m saying that #1 is the required step. That’s quite a take. So you are suggesting that instead of actively listening, progressives who want to win back aggrieved people should simply wait to talk? how’s that going?
  12. Minorities are not the ones pushing them away. White progressives are.
  13. But for American progressives, that question goes right to the source of their privilege and is therefore too close to home.
  14. That’s a good question. Probably not, honestly, beyond shaving a 5-10% of their vote back. But considering the alternative that seems material, and maybe more. Look at Mamdani, for example. His entire thing is not excluding people and taking their grievances at face value. And it wins. You can’t do shit unless you win.
  15. That seems weird. If people are saying “I got shafted,” demanding they prove it to you is a weird way to engage them. Do you have the luxury of alienating them?
  16. I’m not sure that’s possible, and we’ve seen the reverse in rural Texas.
  17. Yes, it requires you to be open to the possibility that they aren’t imagined, even if the reasons are more complex than it seems to them. If someone gets shafted, they got shafted. That should be enough for you.
  18. What would be the fun in that? Solidarity instead of rejection I COMPLETELY disagree. I think the mainstream of the progressive movement is mainly a social/cultural affection of older, mass affluent whites who enjoy the performance of “helping people*” as long as it doesn’t involve personal risk or loss of social status. *the right kind of people
  19. Is that thread worth reading? It seems like such a local issue I’m struggling to follow it other than that I see people online being super racist about Somalis and other East Africans in MSP. That sucks because they are awesome, work super hard, and their cuisines kick ass.
  20. Indeed that’s why I didn’t offer examples to begins with- I’m not trying to prove the existence of a generalized problem. The personal experience of any human is entirely subjective and inherently anecdotal. I’m arguing that the progressive movement should be open to people who feel the economy is rigged against them or been denied opportunity for no reason other than being born, and should not deny the realities of their lives or wave them away with statistical generalities.
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