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Says the person paying for a blue checkmark on Twitter.
They’re not wrong, but they are actively contributing to what they are complaining about
Fuck purity. Be a hypocrite. Buy sharpies and poster board from Amazon and then go protest Jeff Bezos’ next dick rocket. Do what it takes to get your message out there.
Don’t put yourself at a disadvantage just to keep your halo. There are plenty of people out there being ideologically consistent. You never hear about them, because that gets you nowhere.
By that logic though, one could just as easily say that she should simply run under a bigger party's ticket that is likelier to win elections.
Nobody's perfect, but this is one of those things that is both easy to do and has a correct answer, like returning shopping carts. Twitter is a Nazi bar, no sane person should use it, and the only thing her presence is doing over there is giving the Nazis a more visible boogeyman to rally against. I'd honestly believe more of her supporters are here on Lemmy than over there.
So like Bernie tried to do?