" #Democrats deliver ‘stunning’ flip in New Hampshire special election, latest in series of 28 upsets"

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@fathermcgruder @liferstate

centrist dems aren't listening at all

we simply have to show up in the primaries and replace them

so any rationale that says "it is correct people should not vote until magic perfect candidate appears" is an inversion of reality and is only an approach that makes sure we drift further right

the simple reality is people need to show the fuck up in a giant mob and register the left candidate as their choice in their primaries

that is only way

#vote

[seanjh@mstdn.ca]

@fathermcgruder @liferstate @benroyce

So opposing genocide is demanding "purity" now? The regime committing the genocide is a fascist regime. It is founded on exclusivity and ethno-supremacism. How does one support that and still oppose fascism?

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@SeanJH @fathermcgruder @liferstate

who are you responding to

[deanfarrell@mstdn.plus]

@proscience @benroyce @fathermcgruder On Election Day 2020, I arrived at my polling place right after it opened at 6:00 a.m. The line to vote was down the block!

Four years later, I arrived at around the same time. However, I was the only person there besides the poll workers. I remember thinking, "This does not bode well." And boy, was I right!

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@DeanFarrell @proscience @fathermcgruder

we are suffering through 4 years of hell because of nonvoters

all this trump shit is their fault

[deanfarrell@mstdn.plus]

@liferstate @benroyce @fathermcgruder If I had a dollar for each time Black women have saved America from itself....

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@benroyce @kali @fathermcgruder @proscience

Indeed. The people that nonvoters hurt the most are those for whom they profess support.

[fathermcgruder@jorts.horse]

@kali @benroyce @proscience Besides complaints about the optics of blowing up a school, what are you seeing from Democratic leadership indicating that they are actually opposed to that plan?

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@SeanJH @fathermcgruder @liferstate @benroyce It's not "opposing genocide" to refuse to vote in an election where "cut off support for the country doing genocide or don't cut it off?" is not a question on the ballot.

[kali@discuss.systems]

@fathermcgruder @benroyce @proscience bro if you still think there is a plan i can't help u. good luck in life.

[kali@discuss.systems]

@fathermcgruder @benroyce @proscience you guys really have no idea what you have coming. 0. best of luck. 2008 will look like a walk in the park.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@fathermcgruder @kali @proscience

why do you care about what democratic leadership thinks?

we show up in the primaries and replace them

this is what i mean by entitlement: you're so fixated and obsessed with teaching centrist dems a lesson everything else matters less to you

your entire topic is a red herring

who gives a fuck what dem leadership thinks. just vote for left candidates in the primaries

by changing the topic you're only showing you've lost the plot

[fathermcgruder@jorts.horse]

@SeanJH @liferstate @benroyce

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@fathermcgruder @SeanJH @liferstate

how's that bullseye going under trump since he is now in power because so many didn't vote?

what has been achieved by not voting on what you *say* you care about?

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@liferstate @benroyce @fathermcgruder

LGBT people also preferred not being murdered.

"Among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters, 86% cast their ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris, while 13% voted for Trump, according to NBC News exit polls."

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article295190254.html

[alienghic@timeloop.cafe]

@liferstate @benroyce @fathermcgruder

It's one reason I'm annoyed by phrase "you people voted for Trump" (when posted on mastodon).

Groups that heavily voted for Harris were Black women, LGBT people, people with postgraduate degrees, the religiously unaffiliated, and I think newspaper readers were also heavily biased against Trump, but I can't find a confirming reference right now.

Those are all categories heavily over represented here on mastodon compared to the general population.

There's not a lot of straight white people with a high school diploma who call themselves evangelical around here.

We should be arguing about how to communicate to the mainstream not complaining about each other.

[fathermcgruder@jorts.horse]

@dalias voting for any pro-genocide candidate sends the wrong feedback signal. We know now that the Democrats got the message: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza
Hopefully, they will take heed on future campaigns.

@SeanJH @liferstate @benroyce

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@alienghic @liferstate @fathermcgruder

my feeling is we win by flipping nonvoters

me yelling at a nonvoter on mastodon doesn't achieve that

but there's plenty listening who i am not yelling at who, reading along, appreciate the point, and decide to vote

[liferstate@mas.to]

@benroyce @fathermcgruder @SeanJH Musk's destruction of USAID has already killed tens of thousands of people. It's projected he could cause as many as 14 million unnecessary deaths, the deaths of people who would've lived if the food and medicine they depended on hadn't been ripped away (and in some cases literally set on fire!!). This is also a genocide, and it was 100% preventable. All you had to do was vote for the Black lady.

[xenotrope@bsd.network]

@liferstate @benroyce @fathermcgruder The problem of wasn't progressives. It was moderates shifting right because eggs were expensive.