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Yes, we're all familiar with the tired argument, thanks. I don't even need to read your replies, I can just fill in the next blank in the liberal guilt-trip handbook.

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Of course you're not willing to engage in honest discourse. Your positions are incoherent, childish, and devoid of nuance. You're not showing commitment to principles; you're flaunting your privilege.

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Again, this is too familiar to engage with. I can’t conduct your political education for you. You’re the one who ignored my question about how to persuade the Democrats if we simply reward them reflexively with our votes no matter our opposition to their stated principles. Is there anything at all Harris could have done to cost her yr vote? If so, you’re arguing against yrself. If not, you’re just proving my point. You guys will go along with literally anything.

And I don’t know if you just don’t know the meaning of the word “incoherent” or what, but coherence is one thing my position, which, again, has a long pedigree, has in spades.

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"Too familiar to engage with." You are a walking trope: a leftist poet and college professor who won't even engage with people who mostly *agree* with him because of his own sense of superiority and purity.

The idea that you could give anyone a "political education" is rich. You're like a 12-year old.

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Yes it’s amazing that i can resist engaging with such a delightful guy. And i said i have friends who voted for Harris. I hardly think myself “superior” to them; the difference is they don’t think themselves superior to me for their choice, either. And purity, that laughable liberal watchword, doesn’t enter into it.

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Very astute.

Retreat into your privilege while Trump gives Bibi the green light to annex Gaza and the West Bank and rips healthcare and basic rights away from everyday Americans.

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Buddy, if you don’t think college professors, especially those who support Palestine, are on Trump’s shit list, you’re in need of more education than I thought. But what you’re advocating is called blackmail.

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Dude if you think anyone in Trump world gives a hoot about a poet / college professor in Jersey you're more self-involved than I thought.

Maybe you can write your next John Ashbery ripoff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea at Trump International Hotel in Gaza.

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