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Surrender disguised as Victory

Doug X
2 min readMar 14, 2021
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I spent an unfun portion of yesterday arguing with people nominally on the left about the minimum wage section of the Covid Relief bill that was excised from the version that passed. Waves of waves of people had talked about how they underestimated Biden, I interjected that I hadn’t, he was exactly as conservative and anti-progressive as I had expected. This put me at odds with blue wave twitter.

This ended up mostly about the #Fightfor15 portion of the legislation and I received these little gems.

Now twitter’s a free for all, I don’t mind some robust disagreement. But I dislike…

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Doug X
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