still in love with failure
Oct. 24th, 2022 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdThis fucking jackassery from the Progressive Caucus accomplished three things:
1. Extended the war in Ukraine by up to two years, by showing Putin that his strategy of brutality and stragetic starvation is working;
2. Gave aid and comfort to MTG and her ilk, and as part of that, probably hurt Democrats in the midterms, and;
3. Gave a big boost to red-brown authoritarian convergence advocates.
Unbelievably stunning stupidity. Holy god.
Yes, I told her. And AOC, who co-signed it.
Will the American left ever fall out of love with failure? Because I don't know what would make that happen anymore.
Originally on Twitter.
HEY REPRESENTATIVE JAYAPAL. AS A SEATTLEITE, YOU SHOULD KNOW I AM INCENSED BY THIS INANITY
An authoritarian dictator launching an explicitly genocidal war of conquest whose government says the only acceptable outcome is the end of Ukraine should be offered concessions?
I. Am. Repulsed.
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Yes, I've read the letter. I'm not saying close all channels.
But the time to negotiate with a would-be emperor whose philosophical architect calls himself a fascist and says the only thing wrong with Naziism was that Germans did it is when they're out of Ukraine.
Not before.
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My gods. I thought maybe some of you were not as desperately in love with failure as the broader American left.
But here you go, fucking up again, disgracing yourselves and running away from the opportunity to beat actual fascists on the actual ground, and calling it peace.
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Can you not bear the possibility of being on a winning side? Is that actually it? Because that's sure as hell what it looks like.
"Oh shit, we're winning and it's popular, we must be wrong! Time to self-sabotage!"
CHRIST.
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There's an old movie. Tootsie. It hasn't aged well, but it has moments. Dustin Hoffman's character is in a soap opera and is given lines about how a domestic violence victim in hospital needs to try to understand her husband and seek counselling for him.
That's what I see here.
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Sure. You can talk about counselling and therapy for the abuser, that's fine.
AFTER HE'S NOT BEATING DOWN WOMEN ANYMORE.
NOT BEFORE.
It's a very simple analogy but I think it has merit.
GIVE IT SOME FUCKING THOUGHT.
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I'm genuinely disgusted. I want you to know that. As a queer woman who has faced far more than her fair share of violence and abuse, and as someone who has been working this authoritarian movement for decades now, I am appalled, both ethically and politically, by this decision.
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You want to talk about ways out? Here's one:
Walk this back right now. I mean RIGHT now. Today. Don't even wait until tomorrow.
RIGHT now.
---
And get out of love with failure, and start learning to like success.
We need a functional left in this country and we need it bad. But they key word there is functional.
People allergic to success are not functional.
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Now for god's sake, walk this back and apologise, and I'll try to pretend to forget it happened.
I won't. But I'll try to pretend.
1. Extended the war in Ukraine by up to two years, by showing Putin that his strategy of brutality and stragetic starvation is working;
2. Gave aid and comfort to MTG and her ilk, and as part of that, probably hurt Democrats in the midterms, and;
3. Gave a big boost to red-brown authoritarian convergence advocates.
Unbelievably stunning stupidity. Holy god.
Yes, I told her. And AOC, who co-signed it.
Will the American left ever fall out of love with failure? Because I don't know what would make that happen anymore.
Originally on Twitter.
HEY REPRESENTATIVE JAYAPAL. AS A SEATTLEITE, YOU SHOULD KNOW I AM INCENSED BY THIS INANITY
An authoritarian dictator launching an explicitly genocidal war of conquest whose government says the only acceptable outcome is the end of Ukraine should be offered concessions?
I. Am. Repulsed.
---
Yes, I've read the letter. I'm not saying close all channels.
But the time to negotiate with a would-be emperor whose philosophical architect calls himself a fascist and says the only thing wrong with Naziism was that Germans did it is when they're out of Ukraine.
Not before.
---
My gods. I thought maybe some of you were not as desperately in love with failure as the broader American left.
But here you go, fucking up again, disgracing yourselves and running away from the opportunity to beat actual fascists on the actual ground, and calling it peace.
---
Can you not bear the possibility of being on a winning side? Is that actually it? Because that's sure as hell what it looks like.
"Oh shit, we're winning and it's popular, we must be wrong! Time to self-sabotage!"
CHRIST.
---
There's an old movie. Tootsie. It hasn't aged well, but it has moments. Dustin Hoffman's character is in a soap opera and is given lines about how a domestic violence victim in hospital needs to try to understand her husband and seek counselling for him.
That's what I see here.
---
Sure. You can talk about counselling and therapy for the abuser, that's fine.
AFTER HE'S NOT BEATING DOWN WOMEN ANYMORE.
NOT BEFORE.
It's a very simple analogy but I think it has merit.
GIVE IT SOME FUCKING THOUGHT.
---
I'm genuinely disgusted. I want you to know that. As a queer woman who has faced far more than her fair share of violence and abuse, and as someone who has been working this authoritarian movement for decades now, I am appalled, both ethically and politically, by this decision.
---
You want to talk about ways out? Here's one:
Walk this back right now. I mean RIGHT now. Today. Don't even wait until tomorrow.
RIGHT now.
---
And get out of love with failure, and start learning to like success.
We need a functional left in this country and we need it bad. But they key word there is functional.
People allergic to success are not functional.
---
Now for god's sake, walk this back and apologise, and I'll try to pretend to forget it happened.
I won't. But I'll try to pretend.
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Date: 2022-10-25 05:01 am (UTC)That said, the Repulsives** cooperate and succeed because of this. The Democratic party, OTOH, exist in a much better place, theoretically - but can't get out of their own way or cooperate to fight their way out of a paper bag. Will Rogers is STILL right, more's the pity.
[*why did they want him out? He was establishing social programs, opening a dialogue with China & investigating the CIA.]
[[**=admitting that I have been a registered Republican voter since 1978 - primarily staying in the party to vote -against- the worst of the lackwits in party primary elections. Even being a Californian, the vast majority of my votes go for Democrats, year after year & most Reps I -have- voted for, lose, like Tom Campbell: one of the few useful members of the GoP.]]
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Date: 2022-10-25 11:47 pm (UTC)