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If you pardon the insurrectionists, you guarantee another insurrection. Actions require consequences. You can't have unity and healing without accountability fi

• meetups323 6y ago
  > Actions require consequences. So what happens when dems launch a counteraction? Well that's an action, it has "action" right in the name. And actions require consequences, so looks like reps are going to have to launch their own counteraction. And so on and so on for all eternity. That's the ball game. What I'm saying is we need someone in power to drop the ball and leave the stadium. Someone to say "wrongs have been committed but fuck it -- its more important to the country for everyone to get back together than it is to strike back in revenge". And suddenly the reps have no more action enacted against them. And thus no more consequence is required to be enacted from their side. The idea that we need a spectacle of constant political brawl to keep the public entertained doesn't need to be true. Thats my endgame. Whats yours?
  • jachee 6y ago
    If the Left were to stop playing the game, the Right would destroy the entire idea of games. Marginalized people don't have a choice. They don't get to quit and go home. The fact that you see "quit while you're ahead" as an option means your privilege is preventing you from seeing how far behind the majority of the people are. The paradox of tolerance is that tolerating the intolerant will lead to the destruction of tolerance by the intolerant. So no, let's not let the insurrectionists get off scot free. Let's crush their intolerance and "supremacy" out of existence. That's my endgame.