• chiliedogg
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    16 hours ago

    If more of people bothered to fucking vote in the primaries instead of bitching about who was selected, then Fetterman wouldn’t be in office.

    The hard reality is we have a 2-party system and choosing to not participate doesn’t accomplish anything but empower those who least-represent your interests.

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      14 hours ago

      If more of people bothered to fucking vote in the primaries instead of bitching about who was selected, then Fetterman wouldn’t be in office.

      fetterman ran as a progressive in his primary

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      14 hours ago

      The vote blew no matter who crew is who gave us Fetterman. They were willing to overlook his right-wing tendencies so that the blue team could be the fascist running things. The only purpose of the primary is to allow the party significant time to manufacture your approval for their hand selected candidate

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        13 hours ago

        You have 2 options in November. Fully-support Trump and the GOP through either voting Republican or not voting at all, or voting for the Dems, who are less-bad and can be changed over time.

        If you aren’t supporting the Dems at the ballot, you’re declaring that you support ICE, the Iran and Venezuelan wars, the blockade of Cuba, the gutting of the administrative state, the suppression of the vote, the removal of Healthcare for millions, the millions of deaths from cuts to USAID, and more.

        So either try and slow the bleeding or just put on the fucking red hat.

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          13 hours ago

          Fully-support Trump and the GOP through either voting Republican or not voting at all,

          not voting is not fully supporting trump.

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          10 hours ago

          can be changed over time.

          Can they though? They were the conservative party before Nixon, and clinton and obama both governmened from the center right. There is no history of the democrats ever being progressive besides a few politicians like Sanders Warren AOC. They never had a progressive party leader.

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            10 hours ago

            In hypothetical primary races between AOC and Schumer, polls have shown thay AOC would clean house. And that’s what needs to happen. New Yorkers need to fire Schumer in 2028 by selecting a progressive democract.

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          13 hours ago

          If you aren’t supporting the Dems at the ballot, you’re declaring that you support ICE, the Iran and Venezuelan wars, the blockade of Cuba, the gutting of the administrative state, the suppression of the vote, the removal of Healthcare for millions, the millions of deaths from cuts to USAID, and more.

          this is a false dichotomy

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          12 hours ago

          YOU have two options in November. The red fascist or the blue fascist. If you believe that Democrats can be changed over time then why have people been having the same discussions for decades. WEB DuBois was talking about Democrats claiming to be the lesser evil in 1956.

          Under Biden ice received the largest increase of federal funding that they have ever received. They recognized Trump’s hand-picked president Guiado of Venezuela until they had to negotiate with Venezuela and then they recognized Maduro. So yes, we would be in the exact same situation with Democrats in office.

          USAID was always a tool of regime change. The US created the circumstances that they would need aid, then come rushing in to provide the aid with strings attached.

          Lesser evil is something that Democrats tell themselves so they can forget that they chose evil