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[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There have been protests all over the country all summer.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

if you mean No Kings . . . no, those are parades.

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

sure thing. Make sure you don't block traffic!

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Make sure to pull your head out of your ass.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, it's not there, it's between your mom's thighs

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

oh, you're 12. It makes sense now.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

your mom fucks 12 year olds? Dude, not cool.

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No,. you make jokes like a 12 year old. Which you just did again. Why would anyone take you seriously?

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because, unlike yours, the tactics I'm espousing actually can work.

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You haven't espoused any tactics.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

stop voting for corporate dems. Do not do "Vote Blue No Matter Who", stop parroting the illusion of lesser evil (that makes sure the GOP comes back every time).

Clean out the Democratic leadership. If you need to understand how this works, look at the Tea Party and the GOP.

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's your grand solution? Don't vote for our only option of maybe restoring some sanity?

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

restoring some sanity

Yeah, that's a 2010 Jon Stewart rally.

You're literally trying the same failed tactics as 15 years ago.

It's hilarious that you think somehow it's impossible to claim even the Democratic Party, but you're somehow going to change the country.

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't claim any such thing. I agree that voting for farther left candidates in the primaries is important, but to abstain from voting for Democrats at all is just downright stupid and I think you know that.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't say don't vote for Democrats at all.

I say don't vote for any that aren't progressives if the progressive loses the primary. Punish the party for attempting to push right - the same way the "moderates" (neo-liberals) do with the left.

[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

"Elect Republicans if the Democrats aren't progressive enough" is certainly a take, a really fucking dumb take that has no understanding of our political system, but a take.