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You keep mistaking anger for clarity.

If you don't have the clarity to admit that elon musk is a nazi, don't tell anyone else about clarity.

And I get it—that rage you’re carrying is earned.

By people you are defending.

You’ve been watching a party that claims to fight for working people repeatedly fold in the name of bipartisanship, inaction, and big donor interests. You’ve watched policies you care about gutted, leaders you believe in sidelined, and warmongers handed the keys. You’re right to be pissed.

And you're wrong to defend them.

But you’re swinging wildly and hitting everything in sight—including people who aren’t your enemies.

nazis are my enemies.

You’re doing exactly what you accuse centrist Democrats of doing: handing power to the right by making the left ungovernable.

Well maybe elon will fix that for you.

I’m not defending Musk, and I never have.

You're defending democrats who are eager to do whatever he wants for money. That's a distinction without much of a difference.

If I could snap my fingers and vaporize his empire of tech-bro fascism tomorrow, I would.

I doubt it.

But you don’t get rid of oligarchs like Musk by pretending they don’t exist, or by refusing to engage with the systems they’ve embedded themselves in.

musk just pissed off his only major customer. democrats do not need to provide him a replacement. Without access to the government teat, he will fail.

You claim I have no objection to Democratic sellouts, but I’ve literally listed examples where I agree with you: the public option betrayal, the Manchin theater, the Biden admin’s groveling to Netanyahu, and yes, the DCCC backing centrists over insurgents like Cisneros. Those were all shameful, and I said so. You think I’m blind to this. I’m not.

And now that all of those are faits accompli, you've come around. This latest thing with elon will be the wrong decision after the fact too, once the party has moved on to something inexplicably worse.

I’m just not ready to throw every Democrat into the same trash fire because they’re not all equally culpable.

Of course they're not. But the ones who are should not be allowed to continue unopposed. Others will get the idea that they can get away with working for elon the nazi instead of the American people. Just like they worked for netanyahu. If it doesn't stop with support for a man who delivered nazi salutes, will it ever?

It’s the kind of kneejerk purity politics that makes the left easy to ignore.

Until after the election, when they're to blame for all the world's ills, in order to justify moving to the right. In this case, into the arms of a literal nazi.

Not because it’s wrong in its goals, but because it can’t tell the difference between an enemy, an imperfect ally, and a potential pressure point.

netanyahu was the previous imperfect ally. manchin before him. The party did everything both men wanted. elon will be no different.

You say I should start applying pressure. I am. I back the AOCs and Jayapals. I donate, organize, and raise hell when Biden kisses Netanyahu’s ring or when the DNC backs scumbags like Cuellar.

I would ask if there are any examples of this in your comment history, but conveniently:

But I also don’t confuse shouting into a comment thread with changing the world.

I live in texas. Shouting into a comment thread is all I have at my disposal. My rep is a republican. Both of my senators are republicans. It's republicans all the way up. So when I see democrats, cast their lots with a nazi at the end of decades of betrayal, what else am I to do?

They didn't betray you.

And as long as your strategy is just typing “nazi” in all caps at anyone who doesn’t fit your purity checklist, you’re playing right into the hands of the people consolidating actual power.

And bleating "pUrItY" at anyone with standards is how centrists consolidate that power with republicans.

You want to be part of the fight? Then be part of it. But know the difference between sabotage and dissent.

Right. sabotage is anything to the left of elon musk.

Because right now, you’re throwing stones at the people you’ll need beside you if we ever want to break the machine instead of just rage at it.

The people I need are jumping all over themselves to defend people who want to work with nazis and never progressives. It's your machine.