#MarALago
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@admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
they can send ICE to block polling stations
we show up anyway
the idea MAGA exhibits menace and we just give in and give up is ridiculous
btw, i'm not saying that is your sentiment, i'm just riffing on your comment for those reading out there who are spineless (not you)
ICE at the polls:
1. meek weak americans stay home
2. we fucking shove the goons aside
which scenario is the real left?
which scenario is willing submission to fascism?
@benroyce @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho I don't think being afraid of people who can disappear you makes you meek and weak.
Also, I really don't think it's a good idea to try to push heavily armed trigger-happy goons around. They'll just kill you.
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@benroyce @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho I don't think being afraid of people who can disappear you makes you meek and weak.
Also, I really don't think it's a good idea to try to push heavily armed trigger-happy goons around. They'll just kill you.
@mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
they're going to kill us anyway
do you want to go out on your terms or their terms?
if all of us depend on someone else to show up and fix things, no one is going to fix anything. just looking at each other and expecting them to act
it depends on us
and we're either going to act now, with the potential for death, or we're going to act later, with a greater potential for death
those are our only choices
and we have to choose
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@mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
they're going to kill us anyway
do you want to go out on your terms or their terms?
if all of us depend on someone else to show up and fix things, no one is going to fix anything. just looking at each other and expecting them to act
it depends on us
and we're either going to act now, with the potential for death, or we're going to act later, with a greater potential for death
those are our only choices
and we have to choose
@benroyce @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho just act now with little acts of disobedience, easy stuff. For example, taking pictures of unmasked ice agents for identification for trial later.
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@benroyce @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho just act now with little acts of disobedience, easy stuff. For example, taking pictures of unmasked ice agents for identification for trial later.
@macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
but there won't ever be a trial later if we don't vote
we have to #vote
any rationale for not voting is simply self-subjugation to #fascism out of entitlement ("it doesn't affect me") or mindless cynicism and learned helplessness: personal weakness
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#Trump's Plutocrat-Bigot-Child Rapist power nexus
Now in a #Democrat ruled state district in #MAGA #Florida
"They'll steal the vote"
You'll do #prematureCapitulation and not vote?
"Both sides the same"
You're an idiot fine with MAGA #fascism?
"But my obsessive single issue"
You're fine with destroying #transRights, #womensRights, #immigrantRights, etc in #ToxicIdealism?
#Primaries and November
#Democrats suck but we can freeze Trump's agenda
@benroyce The chance that any Democrat will vote for a left-leaning legislation than any GOP member. Therefore, voting for a Democrat, even if they aren't left-leaning, creates a more left-leaning legislature.
Voting in primaries is how you pick your candidate, once at the general, vote Democratic, regardless of issues you may have with that candidate. We can resolve those over time at the next election.
Vote, vote, vote, vote!
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@macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
but there won't ever be a trial later if we don't vote
we have to #vote
any rationale for not voting is simply self-subjugation to #fascism out of entitlement ("it doesn't affect me") or mindless cynicism and learned helplessness: personal weakness
@benroyce @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho oh absolutely go vote, but why waste the opportunity to document these people while they're unmasked?
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@benroyce The chance that any Democrat will vote for a left-leaning legislation than any GOP member. Therefore, voting for a Democrat, even if they aren't left-leaning, creates a more left-leaning legislature.
Voting in primaries is how you pick your candidate, once at the general, vote Democratic, regardless of issues you may have with that candidate. We can resolve those over time at the next election.
Vote, vote, vote, vote!
i'm trying to think of a sentiment that would disagree with you
and i see only the fucking #toxicidealism losers who are fine with rising #fascism: they only make excuses to do nothing
or the right wing trolls cosplaying left to work a helplessness #psyop on idiots who call themselves left, but aren't really
because their primary concern is their high holy sense of self-regard: to sit things out and judge from an ivory tower
while their world goes to hell
they don't care
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i'm trying to think of a sentiment that would disagree with you
and i see only the fucking #toxicidealism losers who are fine with rising #fascism: they only make excuses to do nothing
or the right wing trolls cosplaying left to work a helplessness #psyop on idiots who call themselves left, but aren't really
because their primary concern is their high holy sense of self-regard: to sit things out and judge from an ivory tower
while their world goes to hell
they don't care
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that model has been established:
corporate centrist dems fought him in the #primaries. people showed up anyways
then they positioned cuomo in the general. people showed up anyways
now we have mamdani
BECAUSE PEOPLE FUCKING VOTED
so the model?
fucking show up and #vote! get in real leftists! especially the #primaries
people whining that centrist dems suck doesn't mean shit. it's a red herring. it's a self-defeating whine
ignore centrists and replace them
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@benroyce @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho oh absolutely go vote, but why waste the opportunity to document these people while they're unmasked?
@macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
dopes i love you. i'm not arguing with you at all. i support what you're saying 1,000%. i'm just monomaniacally focused on voting so i'm hijacking your comment. not out of disagreement, just out of my self-consuming concern
we doth both
i feel you
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@macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
dopes i love you. i'm not arguing with you at all. i support what you're saying 1,000%. i'm just monomaniacally focused on voting so i'm hijacking your comment. not out of disagreement, just out of my self-consuming concern
we doth both
i feel you
@benroyce @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho yes, but we have at least 7 months until November. So why wait until then when we have plenty of time for some shenanigans?
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@benroyce @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho yes, but we have at least 7 months until November. So why wait until then when we have plenty of time for some shenanigans?
@macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
we've already had some, but we have some more: #primaries
that is where we can make a serious difference by getting real left #candidates
and yet primary turn out is always abysmal
so anyone who says they are on the left and doesn't show up in the primaries: i doubt their authenticity
so much energy whining online, and not voting in the primaries, is gobsmackingly stupid
but also yes: we do shenanigans too as you say
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@macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
we've already had some, but we have some more: #primaries
that is where we can make a serious difference by getting real left #candidates
and yet primary turn out is always abysmal
so anyone who says they are on the left and doesn't show up in the primaries: i doubt their authenticity
so much energy whining online, and not voting in the primaries, is gobsmackingly stupid
but also yes: we do shenanigans too as you say
@benroyce @macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
I'm not from there, but isn't the Primary a late stage in the process?
Standing up potentials as candidates for selection in a Primary is where you get suitable people as candidates, since unsuitable people will be already in the queue, clutching the ticket price.But I know little of the region.
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@benroyce @macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
I'm not from there, but isn't the Primary a late stage in the process?
Standing up potentials as candidates for selection in a Primary is where you get suitable people as candidates, since unsuitable people will be already in the queue, clutching the ticket price.But I know little of the region.
@Photo55 @macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
well yeah, ideally we have a system for getting solid left candidates up, but regardless, in any primary there are lefter and righter candidates
and the choice matters
and not enough make the choice
then people complain it's all centrists
well: did you show up in the primaries, useless whiner?
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that model has been established:
corporate centrist dems fought him in the #primaries. people showed up anyways
then they positioned cuomo in the general. people showed up anyways
now we have mamdani
BECAUSE PEOPLE FUCKING VOTED
so the model?
fucking show up and #vote! get in real leftists! especially the #primaries
people whining that centrist dems suck doesn't mean shit. it's a red herring. it's a self-defeating whine
ignore centrists and replace them
@benroyce @RegGuy so much of this is GOTV.
Pointing to AOC or Mamdani or etc hides their campaign’s effort & the complex of processes they successfully ran. We can’t just agree ‘gotta vote’ - that neglects how hard it is get voters out. And how well they executed. Heck, fam in midtown Brooklyn got canvassed 3x this year, and couldn’t recall the last time anyone knocked on their door.
Pointing to Mamdani glosses by how easily media ownership and money can and does crush weaker campaigns. Cori Bush and Omar and Sanders and Dean’s scream and etc…
I grew up in a union town pre-Reagan. Blue county in a red state. And we had pro leaders, call trees, flyers, rallies, pot lucks, letter-writing, sign teams, etc. then calls day-of, aunties driving folks to polls, a known roster per precinct, and then a fun party after. These orgs were union. When unions got nuked by RightToWork and closures/offshoring, the area’s become reddish-purple. Hell, religious wedges mean even the ~15% in unions tend red. Fucking nightmarish.
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@Photo55 @macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho
well yeah, ideally we have a system for getting solid left candidates up, but regardless, in any primary there are lefter and righter candidates
and the choice matters
and not enough make the choice
then people complain it's all centrists
well: did you show up in the primaries, useless whiner?
@benroyce @Photo55 @macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho They all suck ass. I’m not a fan of any party or popular ideology but will vote for the least evil douche.
Living in a state where u don’t have to be affiliated with a party to vote in primaries is way cool.
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@benroyce @Photo55 @macacator @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho They all suck ass. I’m not a fan of any party or popular ideology but will vote for the least evil douche.
Living in a state where u don’t have to be affiliated with a party to vote in primaries is way cool.
@Ox1de @benroyce @Photo55 @mikelovesbikes @admin @painting_squirrel @bridgeenjoyer @aho you still need to vote though
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@benroyce @RegGuy so much of this is GOTV.
Pointing to AOC or Mamdani or etc hides their campaign’s effort & the complex of processes they successfully ran. We can’t just agree ‘gotta vote’ - that neglects how hard it is get voters out. And how well they executed. Heck, fam in midtown Brooklyn got canvassed 3x this year, and couldn’t recall the last time anyone knocked on their door.
Pointing to Mamdani glosses by how easily media ownership and money can and does crush weaker campaigns. Cori Bush and Omar and Sanders and Dean’s scream and etc…
I grew up in a union town pre-Reagan. Blue county in a red state. And we had pro leaders, call trees, flyers, rallies, pot lucks, letter-writing, sign teams, etc. then calls day-of, aunties driving folks to polls, a known roster per precinct, and then a fun party after. These orgs were union. When unions got nuked by RightToWork and closures/offshoring, the area’s become reddish-purple. Hell, religious wedges mean even the ~15% in unions tend red. Fucking nightmarish.
no
fuck this defeatist nonsense
the primary point of success or failure is people showing the fuck up
that is what mamdani and AOC succeeded in doing *without* centrist support
that is the lesson
meanwhile endlessly making demands before showing up is lunacy. it is exactly why the left loses
what are you asking for?
that all these forces suddenly align with leftist causes? you think that's going to happen?
no, we simply show the fuck up
stop making excuses not to
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@benroyce @RegGuy so much of this is GOTV.
Pointing to AOC or Mamdani or etc hides their campaign’s effort & the complex of processes they successfully ran. We can’t just agree ‘gotta vote’ - that neglects how hard it is get voters out. And how well they executed. Heck, fam in midtown Brooklyn got canvassed 3x this year, and couldn’t recall the last time anyone knocked on their door.
Pointing to Mamdani glosses by how easily media ownership and money can and does crush weaker campaigns. Cori Bush and Omar and Sanders and Dean’s scream and etc…
I grew up in a union town pre-Reagan. Blue county in a red state. And we had pro leaders, call trees, flyers, rallies, pot lucks, letter-writing, sign teams, etc. then calls day-of, aunties driving folks to polls, a known roster per precinct, and then a fun party after. These orgs were union. When unions got nuked by RightToWork and closures/offshoring, the area’s become reddish-purple. Hell, religious wedges mean even the ~15% in unions tend red. Fucking nightmarish.
