• Final Remix@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      What the fuck is “purity testing”?

      I’m complaining about him hiring Lerner. He’s playing by standard DNC rules, at best now.

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        What the fuck is “purity testing”?

        It’s what centrists say when people to their left have standards.

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        He’s run a phenomenally lowercase-d democratic and candid campaign. Hiring one experienced DNC Communications chair does not compromise his platform. It might lead to that, but it might not. To judge based purely on that appointment, before anything has actually happened, is 100% purity testing.

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          So losing faith that a candidate is going to stick by his word is now something called “purity testing”?

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            Your faith is your business. Barking the failings of the lesser evil, in the wave of greater evil, with no good strong enough to replace them. Yeah, that’s purity testing.