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Tim Walz says Trump ‘brings out the worst in people – and the worst in me’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Nice strawman, but I'm not saying he's a pussy for feeling bad for cursing. I'm saying, let me be very clear:
2: The people he's calling to bully are fascist, homophobic, xenophobic, racist, corrupt, evil powerful people who are currently dismantling the country
3: It's ridiculous to say "I should have been nicer" when obviously they didn't lose because they were mean, and if anything being more mean would have helped them, or at least...
4: Being more mean maybe would at least have driven more people to take aggressive action that may have prevented the current situation
It's just ridiculous for someone who was 20x nicer than the victorious competition to say they should have been even more nicerer on top of that. Why? What good would it have done? Would you rather your mom be kind to a criminal trying to rob her, or hateful? (See how uncool and ineffective that is to try to drag your mom into things?)
So if I didn't make it clear enough. I'm not looking down on anyone for "having a conscience". I think Walz doesn't have enough of a conscience to bolster himself to do what needs to be done and overcome the paradox of tolerance and hate the opposition enough to make himself a strong opponent rather than a polite little pushover.