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Seems you are the one posting divisive stuff a month before the election, but go off
"Remember you stupid tr#nnies, your job is to support the party, no matter how much the candidate we nominate hates you. Your job is to sit down, shut up, and get in line. We need your votes, not your voices. The correct time to oppose the TERFS is not during the first year's primary (we let candidates hide their transphobia during the first primary.) It's certainly not during the first general election. It's during the primary, you stupid tr#nny!"
"Also, please be aware that it is irresponsible to primary a TERF democrat running for reelection in a purple district. We can't give up an incumbent seat after all. You'll just have to wait and vote SO HARDS until that district votes so overwhelmingly blue that it becomes a safe seat. Then it will be acceptable to primary the TERF we put forward. Also, please be aware that before running in that primary, your new candidate will first have to get passed the real primary, the money primary to decide who gets to be on the primary ballot. Ok, now that your role is clear, blue no matter who. Remember tr#nnies, you're fabulous and we love you. And remember, if we lose, it's all your fault and you deserve whatever laws are passed against you! Slay gurl! Hope this helps! Don't forget to sign up to canvas for the terf as this year's pride! 🥰 🥰 🥰 "
Here is why no one on the progressive left likes Democrats.
And the fact everyone on the left gets called "liberals" in here shows this is probably a rightwing bs post
Democrats are not an opposition party. They just play one on tv, like professional tv wrestling. They take turns being the "heel" and the "hero".
Anyway,
Hakeem secretly meets with Kushner who is a known traitor and foreign agent and also, officially, is an unelected official with no standing in the government. https://time.com/article/2026/08/24/hakeem-jeffries-private-meeting-with-jared-kushner-draws-backlash-ahead-of-midterms/
AIPAC Democrats are funding aipac Republicans over DSA and progressive candidates that are against blowing up children and innocents. This means no one of importance will be held meaningfully responsible for the destruction of our country. "Democratic Primaries: AIPAC’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project (UDP), spent $53.6 million in independent expenditures by August 2026, primarily to defeat Democrats like Abdul El-Sayed (Michigan) and Cori Bush (Missouri). In the 2024 cycle, AIPAC spent $24 million to unseat progressives in Democratic primaries. Republican Campaigns: AIPAC also supports Republicans, endorsing over 100 members of Congress who voted against certifying the 2020 election. However, its Republican spending is often directed against candidates AIPAC deems "insufficiently supportive" of Israel, such as Thomas Massie (KY) in 2026, whom UDP targeted with $3.58 million in opposition. Donor Overlap: A Politico report found that 46% of AIPAC donations to Democratic candidates in 2024 came from donors who had previously supported Republican causes or candidates since 2020, including GOP billionaires like Paul Singer and Haim Saban. "
Tammy Duckworth says that Dems shouldn't be "impeaching nobody" and we should work with the pedophilic, traitorous, authoritarian who has broken more laws than exist.
https://youtu.be/Cm53m1L4Vas?is=qDThCb9RhXqqzxkl
No one likes the Dems and everyone knows that nothing will happen that causes any real change after they get elected. Everything we want will be on the back burner because "we don't want another trump again"
Status quo doesn't work anymore
Status quo doesn’t work anymore
Support for your wider points. But the status quo has always been working for the same people. The USAian state was literally concocted by enslavers to violently enforce their privilege.
I agree and I think that is why the status quo is done. A big part of that is a lot of people that bought into some or all of the propoganda (myself included as a GWOT veteran).
The information age is proving to be uncontrollable by the elites and maybe real history and current events will still get through to the majority
Yes blue maga loves this kind of alienating liberal bullshit.
Primaries are for getting the candidates you want. General elections are for picking the candidate who is closest to your values. If you really want change candidates, get involved in your candidates primary push. Just bitching on here and sitting out on civic action is selfish catharsis.
Lots of theee people who are loudly bithlching about "Blue MAGA" are trying to keep us from voting blue in order to support the GOP. The centrist swing voters are overwhelmingly voting Democratic this cycle, so they're trying to convince leftists to either stay home or waste their vote on a third party.
or waste their vote on a third party.
I feel like this isn't understood well enough: Strategic voting in plurality systems means making concessions. Proudly refusing to concede any point at all is worthless it it ends up conceding them all instead.
The system is fucked and needs replacing, but while the MAGAts may abolish it, I have little faith they'll install something better in its place. That alone should be worth the damage control.
What primary? Are we getting a primary this time or will the "party leaders" just pick again?
Thankyou, Fuckin crybabys here afraid of socialism is all I'm thinking when I see posts like this.
"For dinner you can pick between overcooked turkey, or a bowl aged horse urine, children's fingers, and broken glass. You have to eat one of them."
"Neither option is vegan and the turkey is dry, so it doesn't matter which one I eat ."
Huh? If you're vegan then both of those options are equally disgusting to you and you'd probably choose to skip this meal
Vegans generally aren't vegan because of taste preferences.
You can vote third party, the important thing is to be a voter rather than a non-voter.
America libs are really hung up about this, those lib voter criticizing the liberal gov aren't not going to vote liberal, donald is an obvious nightmare. they're going to just try and get a socialist democrat into the in during the Dems primary, stop being a bunch of soapbox premadonas.
Muricans, don't fuck this up. We're so tired of all the political news from your country dominating every single "global" space. Sincerely, the rest of the world.
I said this last time it cropped up, and it's still true now
https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48205840/22263227
The truth of the matter, as it's often the way, it's there's nuances
- If you're in a blue safe seat - vote third, if you're very lucky they might even win that seat, but the real purpose here is to go "WE DON'T WANT YOU TO SLIDE RIGHTWARDS BLUES, LOOK AT HOW MANY SEATS YOU LOST FROM DOING THAT"
- If you're in a swing state - vote blue no matter who
- If you're in a red state - vote blue no matter who
To add to this, vote in primaries. Some places even offer open primaries. Make sure that the next blue candidate is a progressive. Especially useful if your area is a blue safe seat.
Now do Gazan children.
Red party: "I'll blow up an Iranian girls school"
Blue Party: " I won't"
Guy in hat: "I only care about Gazan children"
Red party: “I’ll blow up an Iranian girls school”
Where do you think Gaza is located?
Blue Party: " I won’t"
Did you miss the Biden administration and every administration before?
lmao I got called "Blue MAGA" for encouraging strategic voting just yesterday. I was a card carrying member of DSA before it was cool.
You can tell an election is coming up because all the bots and shills crawl out of the woodwork to start arguments between centrist Democrats and progressive leftists. I'm often disappointed by Status Quo Democrats but I'll take a status quo that doesn't work well enough for everyone over a lurch towards fascism that intends to claw back every right we've secured since the 1860's and eagerly steal the territory and resources of middle powers... and do it all fucking incompetently.
Progress over perfection. Shift the overton window.
Reminder: While establishment dems are cringe, tankies first and foremost want to see the US and its citizens die, for shits and giggles.
The tankies seem incapable of reckoning with the fact that an informed citizen can vote for the lesser of two evils (usually fairly easily) and also take other action like boycotts protests and community organizing etc. I also don't believe most of the keyboard communists actually do jack shit to fight back, aside from impotent online rage.
It's even worse than that. Most of them are incapable of understanding any kind of nuance. To them every issue is black or white. And everyone who doesn't agree with every single point on their extremist agenda is an identical enemy.
And Lemmy (or at least certain instances on Lemmy) is infested with them. Which means they go around in clusters, swarming anyone on the other instances who doesn't conform with their impractical ideology and blinkered views.
Edit: Ooh, looks like they found my comment! Just wanted to add a special note to them: grow the fuck up!
Primaries are for getting the candidates you want. General elections are for picking the candidate who is closest to your values. If you really want change, get involved for your primary candidate. Just bitching on here and sitting out on civic action is selfish catharsis.
Those trans people and Palestinian children are so selfish! Don't they realize that .ml users won't be able to act smug and feel better than everyone else if they vote for a party that they don't agree with on every single issue? How else will they deal with their insecurities? Palestinian children should be happy to die for true leftist's need to feel superior.
This has been my experience with everyone who refused to vote for Kamala
Nevermind the genocide, Kamala Harris kept people in prison for no other reason than to prevent shortfalls in her budget from lost prison labor under the 13th Amendment.
Kamala Harris is a slave catcher.
Fuck right off.
Guys this is the most important election of our lifetimes, you have to keep doing what we've always been doing, otherwise things will keep going the way they've always been going!
Less people would be dead if Kamala had won. But please keep acting like you give a shit about those people without doing the one very simple thing you could have done to save their lives.
Would it have saved everyone? Of course not, but if you think the death toll and concentration camps would have been the same you're a complete fucking idiot.
Your whole "perfect is the enemy of good" horseshit literally cost people their lives and freedom. You don't give a fuck about those people and I hope they haunt you and every dipshit like you.
Don't let the loud 0.1% affect your opinions.
On the one hand: Yes, go to the ballot and vote blue. Even if they're 99% Hitler. If you think you have "nothing to lose", go look at Syria or Russia. 'The worst the Republicans could do' is worse than you can imagine.
On the other hand: Have you ever heard of the ultimatum game? Imagine you and a friend are offered $100, and your friend offers you a split of $X. You can either accept the $X, or reject it and you both get nothing. You might think you should accept the $X no matter how low, but if the scenario happens again and you have rejected low values last time, your friend will be more likely to offer you a fair X. Otherwise, if your friend's a bastard (and he is), he'll offer you $1.
Anyway, in 2020 the X offered was a Biden, and in 2024 the X offered was a Kamala. If every Leftist votes for Biden/Kamala/Next, then the DNC will keep offering the same dogshit or even shift right because 1) they want to grab more centrist voters (who won't vote for a more progressive candidate), and 2) they won't lose any leftist voters so why not. And then when the right-shifted candidate loses they'll blame it on "leftists didn't vote enough" anyway, in spite of the statistics saying otherwise.
So in other words: If you're willing to vote for a 99% Hitler, don't be surprised if you're offered a 99% Hitler. Unless you're expecting the DNC to be extremely principled, anti-corruption, and spineful?
"Vote blue no matter who" isn't a solution; it's forfeiting democracy (if you follow it, you literally don't get to choose not to vote blue) in pursuit of... not letting Republicans in. Great! The Dems reliably prevented Trump from being re-elected, right? No, he trod water in the status quo but didn't actually fix the core problems, so Trump's "vote me in and I'll burn down the system" still resonated with voters. But hey, at least Biden prosecuted Trump and all the criminals who he enabled to flagrantly break the law and rewrite it to their benefit? Not really, no.
"Vote Blue No Matter Who" is a travesty which can be at best justified as a strategy of lesser evil - but still evil. If it doesn't have an expiry date then you've already abolished democracy, and that's fucking horrifying, even if it's the correct strategy.
Gotta love the schordinger leftist, simultaneously responsible for the Dems loosing and not significant enough for Dems to pander to.



