• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe
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    Yes.

    IN SPITE OF THE DNC TRYING TO TORPEDO HIM WITH ANDREW “SEX CRIMINAL” CUOMO.

    When Democrats say “you should have voted in the primary” what they mean is they’re going to put their thumb on the scale to get their candidate nominated and expect you to vote for them even if they don’t have a single progressive position.

    No one owes Democrats their vote. Democrats need to earn votes. You can do that, by, I don’t know, running a progressive candidate. Progressive policies are wildly popular and will win elections. Liberal Democrats won’t. Especially the ones constantly chasing those elusive centrist donors voters.

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          Is it normal for a senator to endorse a mayoral candidate? Because from what I’ve seen, it’s not.

          It’s like saying that the governor didn’t endorse a local dog-catcher.

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            But apparently it’s normal for NYC mayors to travel overseas to kiss a shitty wall in a genocidal foreign country and deviating from that is some grave offense to America. It’s apparently normal for a senator to openly represent that same foreign country instead of his own (at least when he’s not advocating for his two invisible right-wing American constituents in his head. I guess that’s normal too).

            But a senator endorsing the most important mayor position in the country? How strange and weird.

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            Is it normal for the head of a political party to endorse his own party’s candidate for mayor of arguably the most important city in the country? Yes.

            Is it normal for the head of a political party to repeatedly evade answering who he supports in that mayoral race? No.

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          Your rhetoric elects republicans. You know this right? You’re either a republican or an accelerationist because these are the only results of your position. And you don’t get to wash your hands, you know full well how the system works. You’re effectively a Trump voter.

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              My rhetoric is primary incumbent Dems with progressives and drag the party left. It works. It in fact is the only actual way to reverse a fall into fascism without violence, and it’s even the only realistic way without violence to transition into a more socialist or communist form of government. But you people don’t vote, which makes you the same as a trump voter.

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                The fact you think people aren’t voting in the primaries right now is actually hilarious. Progressives are doing it, and you’re still butthurt about people criticizing corporate dems. And that’s not even getting into the fact that the Dems will genuinely try to rig primaries to prevent ANY progressive from getting elected in the first place, so morons like you can run defense for them when they put forth shitty, weak candidates with no message that lost to the most unelectable person in the planet twice.

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                    The reason it hasn’t happened is because the corporate dems have sabotaged every progressive candidate that has ever shown their face. The only reason they’re winning now is because of the corporate wing being so absurdly ineffective that people are voting for ANYONE that shows a spine, and it’s DESPITE the fact the corporate dems are ratfucking them at every turn.

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            Well, I called that one.

            Essplain to me again how Democrats just let the primaries play out naturally. Like they didn’t torpedo Mamdani. Or change the rules and have “superdelegates” overrule the primary that would have elected Bernie over Hilary.

            Essplain to me how Democrats are the party of the working people when Clinton signed NAFTA. And welfare reform. And Biden wrote his crime bill. And Obama’s signature act was Heritagecare Romneycare Obamacare. He sat on his hands for two years until the Democratic supermajority disappeared so Republicans could be the bad guys and say no to single-payer in favor of a health care plan literally written by insurance industry lobbyist and fellow Chicagoan Penny Pritzker. And threw regular people under the bus while bailing out banks.

            Wake up.

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                I have a sticker that says otherwise.

                But you’re right, I don’t vote. Not for dipshit DINOs.

                But, you know, don’t hurt your arm patting yourself on the back for voting for the “lesser” of two evils and verbally abusing anyone who wants progress.

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          Givesomefucks even gave you the DNC chair endorsing mamdani but keep going off morons.

          “Real” Democrats. Stupid dividing bullshit.

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            They’re laughing at you. They do nothing for you and you vote for them anyway.

            That’s literally a metric politicians use among each other — how little can they do for their constituents and still get re-elected.

            They mock fellow politicians who do anything for their constituents to get reelected.

            I’m not joking.

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              Yes so I guess the choice is to what, abstain? Vote third party in a FPTP system that will not work? “Start the revolution” that everyone seems to tout but I open the news every single day and see nothing like that done?

              Go ahead- tell me the answer. We’re all waiting.

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                Playing the hits, I see.

                Next you’re going to blame Bernie for everything, call me a misogynist, and insist I love Donald.

                Is there a script you have to read from like a call center worker?