• Catoblepas
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    4 days ago

    The people going absolutely ballistic over pointing out the flaws of the Harris campaign are wild. If seeing someone criticize a politician makes you that upset, in all sincerity, log off. If you can’t differentiate criticizing a politician, campaign, and party from supporting their opponent, you have been sucked into an anxiety/rage spiral and you’re helping nobody, especially yourself.

    There is nothing useful in screaming at your allies because you don’t like seeing the post-mortem. And make no mistake, anyone who didn’t vote Trump is either your ally or someone you need to make your ally. Some Trump voters are even going to need to be your allies when they see and regret what they did.

    • Aye.
      People are upset, I get that, that’s perfectly fine to acknowledge one’s emotions.
      Now what?
      The next step is reflecting on the failure.

      That’s how you learn from errors, not just in elections, but literally anything. It’s certainly more useful than pretending everything was perfect and there’s nothing that could’ve went differently, that’s just defeatism.
      Criticizing and reflecting to be more self-aware of flaws and strengths, to grow.

      Then you can make new goals and strategies for the future and kick future’s butt.

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      Right, right. We’re all terminally online and need to touch grass. In addition to being genociders, transphobes, colonialists, and corporate shills. I read that in the GRU manual too.

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        Anyone who isn’t here to help can shut up and get out of the way. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯