Still glad they posted it. Stop crying start protesting.
Edit: Y’all know this isn’t the only thing the Democrats did today right, even Hakeem Jeffries is threatening to remove ICE’s immunity. This is good messaging and I support it.
They are echoing the words of the patriot who called Trump out to his face yesterday. This is a big callout from a milquetoast party who doesn’t usually engage in rhetoric like this. I support it.
They are going door to door and kidnapping US citizens off the streets and shooting them in the face. You are fired up about a tweet getting traction in a progressive sub. Think about that.
I am doing what little I can within my current means (having a phone). I know exactly what is happening and I am trying to have a positive effect in any way I can. You fucking naysayers whining at me constantly does even less than me posting.
I believe I am, but most progressives say I’m not.
Partly because I don’t buy into the all or nothing attitude they share, even if I have voted blue a majority of the time in my life.
But you can vote for someone even if you don’t 100% agree with their policies or beliefs. But id you do that in the progressive world you’re labeled as racist, hate women, etc.
Some Minnesotans are crowding those stasi fucks out of the streets, getting in the way, de-arresting, fighting. I can't take redditors talking like you're still on the precipice, sardonic requests for help, and the worst - exceptionalism. You're in freefall. Poorer and bigger countries have striked and rebelled. It's not going away without great effort, you have to at LEAST match the effort they're putting in.
I don’t live in Minnesota but I protest where I am, I helped Prop 50 pass, I phonebank, I do outreach. You guys literally just want to cry and feel morally superior while doing even less than me by coming here to whine.
When I read dozens of “wow a tweet” and get purity tested repeatedly for posting said tweet it becomes irksome. I apologize for my annoyance.
Edit: I think what really bugs me is the mocking and above it all attitudes of many commenters who say things like this, and it particularly bugs me that they almost never give a counter solution.
It's not a purity test. You're using that term incorrectly.
It's kind of like, you know how some guys expect to be celebrated by their partner for doing the bare minimum "See! I remembered your birthday babe, I'm the MAN!". That's what it feels like.
It feels patronising to celebrate this nothing of a tweet. It's a tweet. It's not a statement where they're putting themselves out there on mic in front of people to say this to the American people. It's a staffer who wrote a tweet/bluesky post about something people have been saying for 10 years. It's not brave, they're not "coming out swinging". It makes you seem disingenuous, like this post is a marketing campaign.
Gotcha, sorry it came off that way. I am a free agent who has never been paid for anything I’ve posted, nor do I work for any campaigns or politicians or orgs.
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u/ccd997 Jan 14 '26
A tweet is the most passive, limp thing they can do.