• @[email protected]
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    202 days ago

    You ignore one simple fact.

    The GOP always votes Red, no matter who.

    It takes two sides to have a reasonable discussion, but only one side to start a war.

    It’s a war and you’ve been invaded.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness
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      The GOP always votes Red, no matter who.

      They literally don’t though. They voted for Trump because they liked him, not because he ran as a Republican. There’s that phenomenon where Trump voters also vote for candidates like AOC or Bernie Sanders, so… Yeah.

      • Majorllama
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        -92 days ago

        A lot of people that voted for Bernie back in the day voted for Trump and then AOC down ballot in 24.

        The far left cannot fathom people making those choices or existing at all it seems. But they really do.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness
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          The far left cannot fathom people making those choices or existing at all it seems. But they really do.

          Milquetoast liberals are about as much in denial about this as the hard left socialists, maybe even more so.

          • Majorllama
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            I definitely feel the denial rates on this particular topic lessen the more towards center you get, but I get your point.

        • @givesomefucks
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          A lot of people that voted for Bernie back in the day voted for Trump and then AOC down ballot in 24.

          Suuuuuuure they did buddy…

          Now get to sleep so the Easter Bunny has time to hide the eggs.

            • @givesomefucks
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              Oh ok…

              That’s saying more people voted her and trump in 2024 than voted her and trump in 2020.

              Not what you claimed it said.

              That number includes people who voted Republican up and down ballot in 2020 just as much as it includes people who voted D for both in 2020.

                • @givesomefucks
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                  22 days ago

                  So now you think every Bernie supporter was a Democrat before 2016?

                  The connective tissue from Trump to Sanders is something akin to populism — the ruling class sucks — and that rhetoric plays well among a certain class of people who don’t feel the government works for them,” said Joshua Dyck, a political science professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

                  “The politics of anti-elite grievance is not just popular in the United States and it’s not just popular on the right,” he said. “It is the story of politics right now.”

                  You’re doing a great job of illustrating how progressive policy is popular with voters regardless of party tho, so by all means keep going…

                  Are you just doing that thing where people assume an article supports them but didn’t take the time to read it?

                  Speaking of, here’s the link in case you delete it:

                  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/upshot/voters-trump-bernie-sanders.html?smid=url-share

                  • Majorllama
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                    -22 days ago

                    Just keep on making assumptions about me. So far you’ve been wrong every single time lol.

                    I read both the articles before I sent them. I never delete comments or posts. I’m not a Republican. You got any other shit takes you wanna make about me?

    • @givesomefucks
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      32 days ago

      The GOP always votes Red, no matter who.

      How’d that work out?

      Seriously, if your plan is to follow the same path as Republicans, does that mean you think it’s worked out well for them the last 20 years?

      Are republican voters being taken care of by their elected officials or did having no standards and excusing everything their party did just make it so the most corrupt candidate advances to the general?

      What is different about Dems that would make the result be literally the opposite, and how much more time do you think we should waste seeing if it works?

      Instead of running a charismatic candidate with a progressive which statistically results in the presidency, House, and Senate?

      Why not take the easy path that gets us what we want instead of the hardest path where we get the least reward?

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        The GOP always votes Red, no matter who.

        How’d that work out?

        They won, and kicked 79 Million people out of health insured status.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 days ago

      The fascist party always votes for fascists without thought? Who woulda guessed.

      Guess we gotta be fascists and vote without thought to beat them! Why has no one just tried to out fascist fascists before, it’s so simple and you’re so smart for coming up with that strategy.

      • @[email protected]
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        So what’s your plan?

        How do we get Trump out? Create a 3rd Party in under 24 months?

        Any usable ideas?

        • @[email protected]
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          62 days ago

          Acknowledge the problems Americans are actually facing, pick the leaders of the thousands of protests currently happening as grass roots campaigners, identify of those leaders who has the admin experience to do the boring jobs of an elected official, while folding in the hundreds of third party reps already in office by simply taking their talking points into the platform. Ideally make a show of rejecting corporate funding and roll some union leaders into the party to provide easy consistent funding sources.

          People are happy to vote for things, if they believe you’re not a cop or corporate puppet, like Harris or Clinton respectively.

          Oh, and public executions for people that think you can’t have a third party in fptp even when one party falls entirely out of favor.

          • @[email protected]
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            So, the same people who didn’t show up for Bernie in 2016, 2020, and 2024 are suddenly going to come to the polls now?

            People keep posting like there’s this giant army of leftists out there. I haven’t seen them yet, and don’t plan on counting on them.

            Also, your plan is remarkably light on details. Are these people going to be voting in Dem primaries, or creating a 3rd party.

            And there’s not one candidate named. Just some vague Not Hillary Clinton.

            • @[email protected]
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              52 days ago

              Yes, the people that thought sanders had no chance due to dnc corruption that they were objectively correct about will mobilize for someone without that restriction. If sanders were to start a third party he alone would ensure the dnc never gets another candidate in office. And he’s a moderate.

              Because of the rules on civility, I’m going to say this as absolutely nicely as I can. Who the fuck are you to demand more from a random on the internet than the entire democratic party has ever given anyone?

              It’s a more concrete plan than continuing to go far right as the Dems did in the last two elections where they lost.

              M4a has around a 70% approval rating in polls, as does measures like focusing on green energy, taxing the rich, providing free college, retraining police, and reducing the power of the executive. Hell even ubi has over 50% in most polls. “Leftist” policies are popular. Hell socialism is extremely popular. You just can’t use the word socialist or communist thanks to 80 years of you people existing.

              • @[email protected]
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                I asked for a plan. You don’t have one. You can’t even name a candidate. And somehow this is all my fault.

                • @[email protected]
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                  32 days ago

                  Yeah, JAQing off is all you people do. You want us to vote, unquestioningly for whatever fascist you throw up, and constantly ask pointless leading questions after they e been answered.

                  The candidate shouldn’t matter. This is a democracy not an oligarchy. Hell you shouldn’t even be allowed to vote for individuals, given they should just be fulfilling the ideology of their party.

                  In any case why not de la Cruz, since she’s a woman but not evil.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    I still don’t see anything like a plan.

                    Keep on yelling on the internet. Maybe some random MAGoo will see your posts and rethink everything.

    • @mmcintyre
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      GOP also always picks a Republican head of the FBI when they’re in charge. So does the Democratic president. Why is that?

      You may want to inform party leadership there’s a war on, they been out here trying to pull a muscle reaching across the aisle.

    • Majorllama
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      Except the GOP doesn’t always vote red, not matter who. I am friends with several people who are still registered Republicans that did not vote for Trump either time.

      Fucking echo chambers are dangerous man.

      • @Zexks
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        Trump had a difference of less than a million votes between this election and his first. You friends are anecdotes that don’t move the needle. They are the exception not the rule.