• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I think we may have different ideas of what a witchhunt entails here, but ok.

    Yes, I’d be willing to bear some ownership in Platner being forced to end his Senate campaign.

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      5 days ago

      And if it collapses the broader political moment and leaves us in a position where only fascists and AIPAC democrats are allowed to engage in politics? I appreciate you at least answering. I’m not asking these questions because they have easy answers. I’m asking them because their answers are particularly difficult and consequential.

      There can’t be a doubt that this is taking some wind out of the sails of the current political moment, where there was some optimism on the left. I hope that our movement is more robust than that, and I believe it to be so. However, I wont dismiss how entrenched and powerful the existing power structures are. If they can find a way to destroy this movement, they will.

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        5 days ago

        Then I guess we’re back where we started and we build again. This time without candidates that have violent pasts against women and POC.