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“In recent years, people have declared that a second Trump presidency is inevitable. Now, with the Harris-Walz ticket, it decidedly is not. It never was.

“Those anxieties are not misplaced but neither are they productive. Such presumptions are, mostly, a form of self-soothing — imagining the worst so as to be adequately prepared, a form of voluntary capitulation to the unacceptable as a way to avoid mandatory compliance should the worst come to pass.”
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me.dm by Medium.comDavid Todd McCarty (@davidtoddmccarty@me.dm)I swear, Roxanne Gay took these ideas straight out of my head. I might still try to expand on this, but she says it quite well. Bullseye. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/12/opinion/harris-walz-political-imagination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CU4.5XlG.mo7Ot9rJTWE2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

@inthehands
Not to mention the abdication of duty. What's the point of fighting if you're destined to lose?

Paul Cantrell

@alter_kaker
I keep saying it: Despair is surrender. Cynicism is surrender. Nihilism is surrender.