• Llituro [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    “this incremental and small change is consequential actually. we’re making a difference! now we can just keep finishing the job!”

    “wait what do you mean no one wants to go any further than this and keeps telling me that i’m the real radical. how could this have happened.”

    the problem with liberalism is that it makes one’s myopic desire for good vibes into the one and only virtue. people sometimes overcome their liberalism when policies that do not go far enough to alleviate their issues are championed as the highest reasonable possible policy, outside the bounds of which one must be a traitorous radical to advocate for.