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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Tue May 24, 2022, 12:53 PM May 2022

Could we stop wringing our hands and whining each time one of ours makes an [View all]

Last edited Tue May 24, 2022, 02:28 PM - Edit history (1)

"inelegant statement"?

You can be sure there are hordes of RWNJ's ready to pounce on and amplify anything a Democrat says that they can make sound terrible. If nothing is said, they'll just make something up. This is a given---to be expected.

What should not be expected is one of us publicly agonizing about "Why did he/she say that? This is going to offend/shock/piss off potential voters! OMG! OMG!"

Yeah, I know we are free to criticize our own, but I am just suggesting that we cut our own some slack and remember that there really is no comparison between their thousands of intentional lies and our handful of misstatements.


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