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    “I’m gonna keep voting for the lesser evil candidate and get mad when people don’t fall in line to support their oppressors.”

    You guys are insane, and a bunch of pussies.

    You’ve been conditioned to only focus on gridlock issues in a culture war to distract you from how we’re all being robbed every day by the ownership class.

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        The problem is that they aren’t my brethren.

        If they think they deserve more before others who have less, they are part of the problem.

        If they think our oppressors deserve more before others who have less, they are part of the problem.

        If they’re willing to let a culture war distract them from the class war, they are part of the problem.

        They can eat shit.

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      nah. we know we are being robbed by the ruling class. but that doesn’t change which outcome is the obvious better choice in a binary system.

      throwing your vote away for the presidential election will never solve that problem and you’re a pretty obvious dufus for thinking that it will.

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        A slow loss is still a loss.

        I’m sorry you’ve convinced yourself that it’s a win.

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      If you don’t like that, and you shouldn’t, show up to your local meetings regularly, not just two weeks before the primary, and encourage other like minded people to do so. Doing that allows you to get the better candidates recommended in the voting guide, canvas for them, phone bank for them, etc. I’ll be there waiting. In my precinct it would only take 3-4 people to tip the balance from corpo Dems to progressives, and maybe even an actual leftist, for local office and state legislative candidates. Start local and trickle up.

      Or if you’re already doing that, thanks and keep doing it.

      But until those efforts bear fruit, when faced with a binary choice please pick the less bad one.

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        The problem is that even people on the left, who should be the good guys, don’t want to solve these issues.

        They’d rather have fascism than socialism because they don’t want to pay more in taxes.

        This is why they’re all cool with perpetuating a culture war at the expense of the class war.

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          You don’t seem to understand what I’m saying.

          Those people aren’t the left, they’re the fucking problem.

          Show up locally with other leftists, or at least progressives, outnumber the corpo Dems, and change the party from the ground up. Leaving the party in the hands of the people who currently run it and complaining about the candidates they put forward isn’t going to do you any good.

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            Right. I’ll call them “democrats” instead of people on the left.

            Now hopefully you can understand my point better.

            They don’t want to pay more in taxes, so they’d rather have a fascist in office than a socialist.

            What you’re suggesting is actually a load of bullshit to make you think you’re having an impact when you’re really not. I’m sorry, it’s the truth and the sooner you realize it the sooner you can stop wasting your time and focus on something that’s more effective.

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              The far-right did it. The people of New York did it.

              The far-right spent 20-30 years doing it. They started with the smallest elections where the fewest number of people could have an impact, city council, school boards, etc. They consolidated their power and moved on to things like small city mayors and state legislatures. Then large cities and the U.S. house. Then Governor and Senate. Then the fucking presidency.

              You think support for Mamdani materialized out of thin fucking air? The locals did it. Despite the state and national parties trying to rat fuck him. Get enough local elected officials in New York state like Mamdani, the state party won’t try to rat fuck them any more, because they will be the state party.

              Do you think the left is lazier than the far-right? Do you think they’re dumber? I don’t. I think they’ve been discouraged by people like you and I try to push back.

              You could stop discouraging people and help me push back. Or you could just keep doing nothing and whining about the results.

              Don’t allow “democrats” to continue to mean corpo Dems. Make it mean leftists and progressives. Or just keep whining.

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                They didn’t, though. Ever since the Rush Limbaugh era, Republicans have always been voting against Democrats because they’re Democrats.

                You can keep patting yourself on the back for doing nothing of use and getting mad at anyone who points it out, but it won’t change anything.

                There needs to be a cultural shift, and democrats have shown time and time again that they do not want to solve these problems because they don’t want to pay more in taxes.

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                  Are you dense? The Republicans have not been stable, they’ve been taken over by the far-right. The R’s that R’s vote for for because they’re not D’s have become increasingly far-right due to decades of grass roots efforts. Meanwhile the left and progressives have allowed D’s to drift until they resemble Eisenhower Republicans, or even Nixonians.

                  Help move the Democrats left or stop whining about the very predictable results of your passivity.

                  I’m probably waiting my breath. You seem like the type that just likes impotently screaming into the void.

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                    Yeah, you’re nuts.

                    Trump was propped up by Russian interference, not any grassroots bullshit going on in the states.

                    I’m going to ignore you now. People like you just love to argue rather than admit you’re wasting your time on bullshit.

                    Keep being stupid.