I'm not a perfect ally either, and I'm perfectly happy to hear WHY and how I can be better. What I don't see the point of are circular firing squads all made up of fundamentally decent people. 

 @420f26f4 I agree 100% with what you've said. No one is perfect, and we're all going to fall short of someone's ideal of allyship or progressivism. But as long as we're working toward upholding each others' dignity, holding ourselves and others accountable to doing better, shouldn't that be enough? 

 @420f26f4 
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 @420f26f4 I agree. As we argue on the side about not who and how we’re collectively not extreme enough, the true extremists keep walking through the front door. 

 @420f26f4 it’s true. but also kind of inevitable because we’re so diverse and different and we have to bring a million different perspectives together. And the right is all the same people who hate all the same other people together, and that is sadly way easier to do. 🫤 

 @162b32eb I feel like most of us can forgive our little differences. But what we ARE bad at is jumping on bandwagons set up by the minority of shit disturbers who can't get past their holier-than-thou bs. The right does this too, but like you say their hatred of us unifies them past any of that. 

 @420f26f4 I feel like a lot of that on the left is also exacerbated and stoked by the right, and so many people fall for it over and over again 

 @162b32eb Valid. In general, maybe we just need to stop being so easy to get riled up against each other. 

 @420f26f4 I find it notable you first attribute this to something the right does, but then here you say it's in the left's nature.

I would say it's in the left's nature to dodge accountability, and the nature of the in-fighting is a consequence of that. 

 @8e758a76 You think the LEFT dodges accountability?  Isn't the RIGHT, as we speak, trying to dodge accountability for the criminal enterprise that was the last administration? What is it now, 92 felony counts? 🤔