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.
Good idea, commenters. Lets keep fighting each other about the perfect candidate for an election that already happened. Surely this will change the situation were in
Lets keep fighting each other about the perfect candidate
I genuinely wonder what you think a primary involves.
Like, do all the candidates just hug it out?
for an election that already happened
Good job just leaving half a sentence out to fit your narrative. Very cool
I genuinely wonder what you think a primary involves.
It involves installing a pro-genocide candidate without asking anyone.
You got your perfect candidate as soon as no one who opposed genocide was running.
What about someone who opposes genocide but was on the Epstien list? Also perfect by your comment.
So someone who opposes genocide but agrees with racial segregation and removing homosexual rights is a perfect in your book?
You bigot
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Watch out guy,s, new wave of astroturfing incoming!!!
Yep. Powered by AI.
Ugh
The establishment does not like your comment.
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.
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Ain’t nobody got time for that
This is a hilarious bit if you actually read contracts
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.
Thats a lot of words. Too bad i’m not readin 'em.
Working up a gif version
Unless the candidate is a progressive, then the establishment Dems won’t endorse them (unless the progressive wins, then suddenly they totally supported the progressive all along)
(no, I’m not saying don’t vote, just frustrated by the fucking hypocrisy)
Make sure you’re pressuring the establishment Democrats in your jurisdiction and the people making campaign contributions.
*cough*
Mamdani
*cough*
Platner
*coughcough*
those were two of the big ones I had in mind, yeah
Don’t just vote Democrat, vote in the primaries.
Exactly. This times a million. We don’t vote in primaries and then get all surprised that the Democratic candidates resemble the folks who voted in the primaries.
Imo if you don’t vote in the primaries, you’ve forfeited your right to bitch about the candidates on the general ticket
I figured that bit was obvious, I was speaking more towards the Dem leadership’s hypocrisy. Again, absolutely not saying “don’t vote both sides reeeeee”
I was complementing, not contradicting 🙂. I agree.
Ya that’s a problem I have in my neck of the words. Everyone complains about who is on the General Election ticket and they just shrug their shoulders about voting in the Primary.
“You mean I have to vote, and then vote again? Ugh, I wasnt even planning to show up to the actual vote. Meh…it’ll all work out fine.”
If voting day was a holiday it would less of a problem
or just have longer and more convenient early voting? In Norway you can vote for at least a month at local public institutions
I have worked for companies that would rather pay out unemployment due to wrongful termination than give time off for voting.
If they don’t want you voting isn’t that a clue?
That’s not going to un-fire them.
If voting day was a holiday, only people who get federal holidays off would get the day off. But it would be a great excuse to get rid of early voting.
Easy fix (that almost every other country uses): vote on Sunday.
Good thing no one has to work on Sundays. Easter Sunday is a federal holiday and there’s plenty of people who still have to work.
If voting day becomes a federal holiday, states that don’t like the idea of poor people voting will do away with early voting.
Or it won’t and I’ll complain online which is even better than voting, right?
Yup, drag the fuckin party left.
vote in the primaries.
When the party runs primaries at all, they interfere with them every chance they get. Saying “jUsT vOtE iN tHe PrImArIeS” without acknowledging this paints the results of the party’s corruption as the will of the people.
Are we acting again like the DNC cares about people voting in primaries?
That would be a nice idea, but what do you do when incumbents run unopposed in the primary
Run against them.
(In theory. I wouldn’t do that either.)
Yeah didn’t the Democratic Party take credit for some shit Mamdani got done? Seemed pretty shitty since they tried to stop him from getting elected.
Yeah didn’t the Democratic Party take credit for some shit Mamdani got done?
They sure tried.
no thnx, thats how you end up with bluemaga and the uniparty
Why am I zero percent surprised that the account calling Ukrainians Nazis also wants to put the Republicans in charge?
they never endorsed Republicans
Yeah no. You wanna know why so many progressives are getting nominations this cycle? It’s because we didn’t “vote blue no matter who” last year and the corpocrats are kind of realizing they’re gonna have to budge to actually get people to the polls again. Vote for the person you… want to vote for.
It’s because we didn’t “vote blue no matter who” last year
You 100% fucking did. That’s why Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger are governors.
We had a choice between Sherrill and Ciattarelli. I think even in spite of how useless she’s been and how she’s been handling Delaney Hall, we made the better choice.
Yeah, 2024, my bad. Spanberger is about as liberal as a Dem can be, she is not some ultraleft savior of the commonwealth btw.
T. Virginian
It’s because we didn’t “vote blue no matter who” last year
If you want to draw a line from not voting blue to more progressives getting nominations then you have to skip the inconvenient side effect of having a fascist child rapist felon as president who’s not going to allow a free election.
Well done.
Didn’t say it was preferable or even good, but it is the reason the DNC is tepidly allowing outspoken socialists on their ticket when just ten years ago they were collaborating with Trump to take out Sanders. They can sense that corporate support is going away and that their voters wont bother to show up if the candidates are no different than the last guy
That’s not my feeling.
If anything I feel like they don’t really have any strategy other than being not-trump.
There’s no cohesion or brand or message.
Didn’t say it was preferable or even good, but it is the reason the DNC is tepidly allowing outspoken socialists on their ticket when just ten years ago they were collaborating with Trump to take out Sanders.
They’re not “allowing” anything. They’re still doing everything they can to block progressive candidates. It’s just stopped working.
“Would you like to be stabbed or punched in the face? If you don’t pick one we’ll go for the stabbing.”
I hate it, but please vote.
“Don’t punch us in the face”
“YOU WANT STABBING! I totally hate this or whatever by the way, vote facepunch no matter who.”
Get infinite Fetterman’s with this one weird trick.
Believing in politicians is a fool’s errand.
Elect people who are scared of you.
The virgin Hillary atheist establishment democrat neolib cishet ally versus the chad vape and xanax addicted poly amorous nonbinary zoomer anarcho-socialist
Implying the zoomer isn’t also atheist?
Probably, but maybe not as vocally as the cishet ally with a “SCIENCE IS REAL” bumper sticker on her ass.
The chad nonbinary anarcho-socialist knows that science is a real methodology and not a belief system to stand behind, and doesn’t need to broadcast it.
Fascists are scared of a lot of things, but this isn’t one of them. One camp uses a degree of class analysis, while the other is aggressively identitarian and thinks class politics are the hallmark of a bad person who’ll abandon marginalized groups.
Both rely chiefly on electoral wins to get the outcome they want. This alliance is a paper tiger.
Yeah, one of the few things fascists don’t fear is voting blocs, because they’re just interested in seizing power by any means necessary.
Vote geeen for jelly beans (they taste the best)
You mean Jill Stein, the lich who shambles oit of her crypto every 4 years to spend Russian money and steal votes away from the Democratic candidate?
misinformation: jill stein was investigated by the senate and no ties to russian money were found.
this doesn’t show she’s ever taken any money from russia.
It shows that she’s aligned with them.
no, it is just a lot of innuendo and insinuation.
You don’t mind that half your party is openly aligned with netanyahu.
she doesn’t steal votes, she earns them.
She’s a ducking Russian troll, dude.russia pays her.
i’ve never been able to find any evidence for such a claim.
Yeah, they’re terrified of Fetterman, Manchin, Schumer, etc.
As opposed to another Cruz, Graham, or McConnell? Yeah Ill even put up with Fetterman.
As though any centrist wouldn’t gleefully vote for any of those as long as they were running against someone who wanted to raise the minimum wage.
What’s the difference?
Changing the majority party means even if there are shit heads, we won’t be having votes to make everything worse. The reason Trump gets away with all his shit is because Johnson is there to cover for him in the house and Thune in the Senate. Even Schumer would do a better job than Thune, with a few assholes in the party.
Even if you don’t like the shit heads like Fetterman, Manchin or Lieberman, they give the party a majority to put a stop to the rightward ratcheting of our politics. The time to get rid of them is during primaries, that’s how you turn the ratchet back.
But they don’t. They don’t give the democrats a majority if they keep voting with republicans.
And we saw how Obama sat on his hands for two years while Dems had a supermajority. Then when republicans had control of congress, gee golly gosh, the mean republicans won’t let us have single payer. Now take this health care plan written by The Heritage Institute and like it.
And NAFTA. And the Biden crime bill. And the Clinton welfare reform.
They’re just republicans with blue ties and pride flag pins.
It doesn’t matter how they vote, being in the Dem Caucus gives Dems the majority. It may not allow the Dems to win new policy, but it stops the GoP from making things worse.
