• humanamerican@lemmy.zip
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      Rand Paul and I disagree on many things, but he probably has more integrity than the rest of the Republican Senate caucus combined, and frankly I struggle to think of a Democrat in the Senate who I trust more either.

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        frankly I struggle to think of a Democrat in the Senate who I trust more either.

        …what?

        Do you believe Bernie Sanders lacks integrity (maybe you’re splitting hairs on “Democrat”)? Elizabeth Warren? Mark Kelley?

        Idk, this seems like a poor attempt to “both sides”

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          Bernie is an Independent.

          Warren helped the DNC derail Bernie’s presidential run which definitely lost her points in my book.

          Kelley seems like a straight shooter. So, we got one.

          Your comment seems like a poor attempt to put me in a box because I said a positive thing about a Republican.

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            Fair enough. I’m struggling with the constant attempts to pin the blame of trump on the Dems not being enough while also projecting various purity tests on the party. I respect that you weren’t doing that, sorry.

            The dem party has a lot to improve on as whole and specifically with leadership. I also want anything better than Trump and I’m willing to settle, for now, on good enough. I wrongly interpreted your message as another attempt to wedge the party

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              It was very big of you to concede the point and I appreciate your willingness to engage with nuance! I do think the Dems are less bad than the (Fascist) Republicans, but I don’t excuse their lack of serious resistance.

              Hopefully we can find a way to dislodge the corrupt and sociopathic leaders of both parties and build a system that actually works for us some day. And yes, MAGA is a special brand of evil that I do not consider to be part of the “both sides” paradigm.

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              I can say I agreed with the first half of his statement but rand paul is kinds the best of the worst to me.

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    So they say now. It matters what they do when their foot soldiers violate peoples’ rights in the field, and arresting them and taking all of their biometrics without a warrant and releasing without charge isn’t acceptable, and that’s what they have license to do, if not manufacture a charge, play victim and claim to have been hurt, or just summarily execute them and then declare they were acting in self defense despite irrefutable video evidence they didn’t have cause.

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    The agents don’t care. They’ll murder you in the street for daring to “disrespect their authority”. Protect yourself and others…