Fascists don’t fear blue voters. You know what they fear? Shattered teeth
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The thing about this that really makes me ashamed of the democratic establishment is the depiction of the girl on the right vs on the left. This post is literally trying to marginalize progressives. Just look at lemmy, half the progressives here are cishet conputer programmers and Linux nerds in their 40s. This post is trying to enforce a harmful stereotype to make progressives seem like a smaller, less influencial, more radicalized group. It’s already playing into bigotry: the progressive is shown as younger (ageism), with darker skin (racism), more “radical” views, as a drug addict., etc; enforcing the bias that progressives are somehow irresponsible young’uns with unrealistic world-views. Fuck this shit. Never thought I’d see something so obviously bigoted on Lemmy.
Watch out guy,s, new wave of astroturfing incoming!!!
Yep. Powered by AI.
Ugh
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Yay.
Election season.
People telling me to vote blue no matter who like I haven’t been doing that since I was 18.
And I’m fucking old.
Not to mention the arguments. People just mad everywhere.
I love politics and don’t hate this stupid game I’m forced to play and always lose.
Fuck the world.
“ANY BLUE WILL DO™”*
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I’ve seen less verbose comments from cowbee.
Yeah I probably need a better presentation, but as stock its got legs I think.
I know you wrote this whole thing yourself because that’s just who you are but it gives off massive ai vibes.
Yeah I need to work shop it. Like the point was to be overly verbose, but I don’t think the presentation works. I like the idea though even though maybe I didn’t stick the landing. Anything in particular that gave off AI vibes? Most of this is just me regurgitating accusations I’ve made of you. Actually, now thinking about it, I should have slipped an easter egg in there for you to find later.
I bet if you asked ChatGPT to re-write the Apple ToS as a politically illiterate socialist critiquing liberals you’d end up with very similar text.
Yeah I think the format is wrong too though. Like, its just too much for a copy pasta. I think a gif would be better, they go to click the TOS and the text just starts scrolling past like movie credits.
Maybe with some version of this wojack towards the end reacting to Chuck Schumer chanting “We will win” as the liberals cuckold themselves to fascists.
Make sure to add a leftist standing around uselessly as the world descends into fascism.
Maybe they can say something about Bernie.
This is a hilarious bit if you actually read contracts
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Thats a lot of words. Too bad i’m not readin 'em.
Working up a gif version
Ain’t nobody got time for that
I’mma vote for the lesser of two evils. What I won’t do is fist bump a republican liteᵗᵐ like they didn’t torpedo every fucking progressive they could. I remember south carolina, biden was dead in the water and suddenly “centrists consolidated” and he was a fucking front runner.
I’m pretty jaded and cynical about the whole thing at this point, but I also don’t have a better idea. Idk, just so whatever you think is right.
Vote “Someone turns off the simulation” 2028
No its, vote blue no matter who* only applicable if the said blue candidate is not progressive
and the whole fucking time we are voting in primaries, it’s all “progressive candidates can’t win the election” and astroturfed lies and slander using democratic funds to hurt itself in its own confusion. want my vote? field candidates that i would vote for.
and no kings is performative at best
want my vote? field candidates that i would vote for.
I hope you still go to the polls and write-in if you don’t like either candidate.
i voted harris for president, but at this point i am so disgusted with how the democrats are acting that i will vote third party if needed.
I do. I want it on record that I won’t vote for right wing Democrats.
Funniest part is when Del libs tell me that the left won’t vote for a woman - because I voted for De La Cruz.
But maybe , just maybe this time let’s not force us to go with establishment democrats, let the people actually decide.
This makes me want to throw up
Oh boy, the Republican consultants here to depress Dem turnout with primary purity tests and doomscrolling have arrived in the comments
Oh boy, the Republican consultants are here to convince people to vote blue no matter who. That way, some milquetoast Dem candidate will get annihilated by the Republican candidate again.
See how stupid that makes me sound?
Can you people just once actually engage with counter-arguments rather than trying to sweep people’s points under the rug by saying, oh you’re a bot, oh you’re a shill, oh you’re Chinese or Russian or Republican or NSA or FBI or you’re the deep state, holy fuck. You sound like someone from /pol/. Protip: refusing to address the argument and instead say make it look like you have no real argument. I’m starting to think you’re the real bot here, bot! Haha see I called you a shill, that means your argument is invalid
“Purity test” means “I have no standards and I demand you abandon yours.”
Its like clockwork
Calling wanting a candidate not to enthusiastically support a genocide a purity test is completely disgusting.
Centrists will never understand that there are people who don’t like genocide.
Purity testing is a good thing, it keeps shit out of our milk and corrupt assholes out of our elected offices
Future dictator surely approves!
Lol good luck with that
