#before you jump on your moral high horse think about why you're jumping onto it

[sapphicsparkles]

PSA because apparently people don't know this: you can be gay and be homophobic, you can be a lesbian and be lesbianphobic. You can be one form of queer and be phobic towards another form of queerness. Just being that sexuality or identity does not automatically opt you out of all the queerphobia ingrained into you from the culture you live in or the unlearning you have to do.

[lorbanery]

There is no such thing as a morally pure politician that can get things done.

I'll take that even further: There's no such thing as a "morally pure" politician. Period.

Because there's no such thing as a "morally pure" person.

Because "morally pure" is a philosophical concept that cannot exist in reality where real people have to navigate the real world and have to interact with people and entities they find morally reprehensible, or didn't know they've done something morally reprehensible, or that may do something morally reprehensible in the future.

Sure, it's important to be informed about a politician's career history.

But that's clearly not the intention here. That little "Not to be a debbie downer" opening line makes it really clear from the start that the whole point of the post is to convince people that it's bad to support Walz.

And on top of that, like, none of you all know this man. I don't either, I've only been to MN once in my life. None of us know why he's made the decisions he did in his life or his career. But you sure are making wild conjectures, though, and it shows from the way all of those bullet points are framed. Nevermind that debunked reblog.

So let me ask this: What was the point of this post? Like, yes, to convince people it's bad to support the VP pick. But, like, why? What did you want to happen?

Harris isn't going to pick a different VP just because his popularity takes a dip on Tumblr.

If Walz does make some kind of statement about any of this it'll be because an actual news outlet brings it up.

I'll tell you what will and did happen, though.

It did provide a semi-legitimate-seeming platform for bad-faith actors to jump onto to add completely fabricated receipts, to make him look even worse.

And It will appear on the dashboards of other people with this same simplistic view of morality that any proximity to immoral acts and organizations is unacceptable, no matter the complicated nuance involved, and convince them to not vote, or to vote third party. Instead of the actual thing that will work: Voting for the only candidate that will keep the fascist party from gaining power.

Think before you make these callout posts. Really think, realistically, what it is they're actually going to accomplish, and what you want them to accomplish.

'Cause I'll tell you what, you best believe I am going to blame all of you moral high horse riders right alongside the fascists you're empowering if the fascists take over in the fall and start the process of destroying my family. If they make IVF illegal and destroy my chances of ever giving birth? If they rip our toddler away from our queer, trans asses? If they start endorsing violence against marginalized people?

That will be on your "morally pure" hands. Hope you can live with that.

Not to be a debbie downer but Tim Walz was in the military for 24 years, including during the Iraq war. He called the national guard on protestors following the George Floyd murder. He supports Israel. He's approved an oil pipeline across indigenous lands that break treaties.

It's weird to celebrate a man who goes against all leftist values