How so?

And nobody should demand that other people acknowledge it as "objectively" good or bad based on that person's subjective tastes.

Recognizing this as a personal preference thing is the most important bit. Folks trying to force their subjective takes onto other people is maybe the second-worst thing that happens in fandom (with the worst being bigotry).

What's with this obsession with "moral clarity" being bad? Is it just about trying to hide bad behavior by pretending that you can never tell what's wrong and what's not? Because that seems too simple (and stupid) but maybe I'm giving folks like TCW too much credit?

my kingdom for an electorate with a memory longer than roughly one week

It also betrays a set of assumptions which I never see spoken about: The assumption here is that the purpose of social media is to constantly be fighting about party politics. MOST of my activity here is taking in art, comedy and information about games! Because I like fun! These people are insane.

A lot of this is just “don’t use technical terms to talk about oppression and discrimination”, and maybe there’s simpler terms one might use, but it gives the impression that the list maker just wants Dems to not talk about those things at all.

Most of these phrases are. I understand arguing that politicians should avoid overly technical language when talking to the public, but you’ve got to be able to say food insecurity and BIPOC and LGBTQA+ and unhoused and so on.

I think some of these people really think, or have convinced themselves, that being publicly poor or homeless is illegal.

I scratch my head when people who obviously watched Star Trek wind up becoming whack job Nazis.

In the same way that transphobes insist that trans folks didn’t exist until a few years ago, some racists insist that Europe was 100% white until the mid-20th century.

maybe if your only social interactions are on a fuckin social network then i suppose you do want it to nourish every need u have

This belief is a huge part of what has gotten us here: An obsessive insistence that “debate” should take precedence over all other values, including the *merits of the thing being debated.*

It is a value antithetical to journalism and they keep pretending it is the only thing journalists should do

Yeah, that's where I watched it.

folks I am not posting this to defend Hillary Clinton I am posting this because "Donald Trump is actually anti-war" was always a completely obvious fiction and anyone who bought it was a credulous dipshit