• jabeez
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    23 hours ago

    Because a sizable part of the population is apparently still too fucking stupid to realize that’s still a no-brainer decision to make.

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      23 hours ago

      Yeah, our countrymen are dipshits, but let’s not undersell how complicit the Dems are by constantly choosing to run candidates that their voting base feels they have to vote for begrudgingly.

      And let’s not pretend like the decision isn’t between unregulated capitalism, and fascism. Yes one is the better choice, but I mean Jesus Christ it’s like trying to decide if you want to die by injection in 10 years or being boiled alive today, you die either way.

      Hard to win elections when your voting base can’t be excited about you. Hence why gop is winning, it’s easier for a fascist to appeal to a dipshit than it is for a capitalist to appeal to a voter with the ability to think for themselves.

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        So, my question when I run into that argument is: who do you think people would rally behind?

        There’s always this assumption that the party has someone that they know would be super popular but they then make a conscious choice to run the most conservative person to the left of the Republican.

        There are primaries. They’re made up of people who can get enough support. The local parties are closer to voters, and it’s much easier for people to join.
        Somehow the people who consistently get elected are the sort of people they keep fielding as candidates.

        So I’d love it if we had a great inspiring candidate. But literally who are they?

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        if you want to die by injection in 10 years or being boiled alive today, you die either way.

        The first option at least gives tons of people extra time to escape to a more sane country.

        But yeah, fuck the dems.

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      22 hours ago

      A sizable part of the population thinks holding down a liberal senator and tazing him is Based and are only upset that they can’t take part. A sizable part thinks if the police tackle you and slap cuffs on, you must have done something to deserve it.

      This isn’t an issue of people being too stupid to understand what’s happening. This is decades of fascist propaganda from the right and decades of liberal cop-worship politics on the left all coming due.

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        21 hours ago

        Liberals are not “the left”. Liberals aren’t even left-of-center. Liberals are conservatives who sometimes have slightly progressive social policies.

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          21 hours ago

          Liberals are conservatives with enough brains to understand diversity equates to larger profit margins

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      More like the democratic leaders are too stupid yo try actually appealing to the population. Keep victim blaming though, and licking up whatever scraps the dems throw st you from the table. Like yall shoild literally be rioting to force a change of leadership in the democratic party, and should have done so the second kamala lost. Or even before that when she was just ‘chosen’ to replace biden.

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        18 hours ago

        David Hogg is trying to, and it pissed them off so much he was ousted. I’d suggest joining up with Leaders We Deserve, his action platform

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        20 hours ago

        Thanks for proving my point, too dense to understand it’s not about my “team”, it’s about making the decision that will cause the least harm.

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          The decision that would cause the least harm is not voting for democrats ever again, and forming a third party. You literally have them voting alongside actual fucking white supremacists, and this is your idea of “least harm”. THE PEOPLE WORKING WITH NAZIS ARE ALSO NAZIS, YOU TWATWAFFLE.

          You’re either a nazi collaborator, like they are, or you’re a useful idiot.

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            Splitting a party in a FPTP system is the best way to ensure the opposing one keeps winning.

            The choices are two: you either get a violent revolution started or you keep voting for the Dems. Anything else ranges from useless to deleterious.

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              Splitting the party? No, I mean creating a leftist party. I don’t want to split the Nazi-light liberal party, it’s filled with fascists and collaborators. let them continue to vote with actual fucking Nazis like the little brown shirts they are.

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            19 hours ago

            Genius-level strategy, not going to argue with you people anymore, just fucking useless. Saying is true, 1/3 of the population will murder 1/3 while the other 1/3 watches and spouts shit like this.

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                17 hours ago

                LMAO, keep telling yourself that

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                    14 hours ago

                    Exactly, meaning now nobody will ever have the chance to vote for anyone (legitimately) ever again, so yeah, again, fucking brilliant!

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                    14 hours ago

                    Not arguing, mocking, fuckwit.

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      22 hours ago

      Yes the nazi is the better choice compared to the mentally unstable nazi. This is why dens are going to lose again and again until the country collapses and we’re rescued by someone invading us.

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        20 hours ago

        Sure, Newsom’s a nazi, fuck off.

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          18 hours ago

          Right before all of this he was literally making the rounds trying to woo and work with MAGAt influencers.