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Jul. 18th, 2021 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roselightfairyAbout to say a polarizing political thing...
So much of the political stuff I see on tumblr these days is this formula: "I hate Biden BUT [X good thing he is doing/Y good thing he said/Z important legislation he has signed]," and pretty much everything I see about him follows this formula, and I'm kind of like, hmm. At what point do you allow yourself to accept that he's actually doing a pretty bang-up job in an EXTREMELY complicated political landscape and you're only declaring that you hate him because it's the performatively progressive thing to say and you don't want people to be mad at you for admitting you think he's doing a pretty bang-up job?
So much of the political stuff I see on tumblr these days is this formula: "I hate Biden BUT [X good thing he is doing/Y good thing he said/Z important legislation he has signed]," and pretty much everything I see about him follows this formula, and I'm kind of like, hmm. At what point do you allow yourself to accept that he's actually doing a pretty bang-up job in an EXTREMELY complicated political landscape and you're only declaring that you hate him because it's the performatively progressive thing to say and you don't want people to be mad at you for admitting you think he's doing a pretty bang-up job?
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Date: 2021-07-19 01:23 am (UTC)It's much like the IKnowThisShowIsProblematicBut that goes in front of so many fans' squee. At some point you should just acknowledge that you like it! Instead of making this boilerplate pretense of only liking some specific part of it.