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civility is worthless

this is not a time for civility. the people demanding “civility” do not afford anybody else that same “civility”. they barely even pretend to. they demand we play by the rules they gleefully ignore.

i saw no civility on display from the people now demanding it from us. i saw rage, hatred, anger at the fact that people are now standing up to them. i saw grown adult men throwing temper tantrums about the fact that their favorite rapist might not get a chance to destroy the lives of millions. i saw the people stamping their feet about how “uncivil” the left is mocking a rape survivor for daring to stand up to a powerful white man. i saw a man sniveling and crying and refusing to take responsibility for anything he did or even answer a single question. i saw him lie again and again under oath in a courtroom setting. and then i saw the people demanding “civility” deem him acceptable enough to grant him one of the most powerful positions in our country. republicans just dont fucking play by the rules they so desperately want us to, and yet dems are so fucking stupid they wont do anything about it.

the thing is though, they wouldnt be making such a fuss about “civility” if they knew we couldnt do anything about it. they wouldnt be crying for it if they thought we didnt have a chance of stopping them. we can. but we need to be angry. we need to be mad as hell at them. we need to be motivated. we need to stop listening to the hypocritical cries to respect a group that has never respected us. always remember that there are far more of us than there are of them. and that terrifies them.

when i hear cries for “civility” from the right i hear fear, first of all. i hear desperate attempts to get us to stop doing anything that might actually hurt them. the only reason it works is because we let it. so stop letting it.