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This is an awesome lib phrase but I don't know what it means. (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

More context is the post at the top of the thread. It's a vid of Booker yelling passionately. If he's pretending - I'm impressed with his acting skills.

"There can be no bystanders in this fight. It is time that we understand the only thing necessary for wrong to triumph is for right to do nothing, for right to be silent."

Translating from lib to English could this roughly be "color of your parachute" sentence?

Oh please please let’s not squabble who leads us. We are a big tent.

What's your take?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

So what this person is saying with that sentence is that trump is the "plummet" and that anyone standing up to him is the "parachute" that will help protect people from the plummet, and so it doesn't matter if the parachute is red (republican) or blue (democrat). The idea being that regardless of party affiliation, standing up to Trump is a good that must be supported.

How does this idea fit into the context of what this person is replying to?

It doesn't (because Booker is "blue" and should be expected to be a "parachute" against Trump's "plummet" in this worldview). But coherence should never be expected.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

So the Dems are going to start critically supporting the folks who tried to assassinate Trump then right? Let's not complain about the color of the chute huh!

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