TAI@knittingknots2 what's dishonestly left missing is this would be getting no traction if the candidates weren't so horririble
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES@TAI @[email protected] voting is a social responsibility. the op ed is repugnant no matter who the candidates are
@benroyce never understand the mentality the voting is like money that must be spent. Not spending it is a message, is a vote to demand a better product, to stop selling garbage
100% bullshit
a vote is a move in a right direction
not voting means you're fine with things getting worse
you never wait until you get perfect, then you vote. it never ever works like that
the only way you get better candidates is to vote consistently, then people build off why people are voting and you get better next iteration
not voting is for the completely clueless or toxic perfectionists, who have no idea of their vote's worth or how things work, and they only make things worse
@benroyce bad sale
It's not my responsibility to convince you to do your responsibility. You are merely defining the terms on how you are failing everything you care about, and you don't even understand how.
@benroyce i'd say the same of you, participating in something that in reality serves itself more than the people. Adding legitimacy to something that provides unacceptable choices
of course it doesn't serve you. you don't participate
just amazing how that works, isn't it professor?
so let me just get this clear, what you believe: without any input from you, the world is just going to magically provide you with the perfect candidate, out of nowhere. and *THEN* you vote
without any feedback (a simple vote), what you want is just going to appear out of thin air on a silver platter?
a simple vote for *a direction* is beneath you. you want perfect up front
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@benroyce these two choices meet your standards, others have better expectations. Calling it perfect is childish. But that matches your fools emojis at the conclusion
Is it emotional for you? You expect politics to be like a romance? You want your heart to fill with passion when you vote?
It's a steering wheel. You steer in the direction you want. Or you don't. So someone else steers it to worse
That's it. That's the entire magic. You will never ever get better than that
Well... you could get a good direction and build on it iteratively to better
But you won't vote. So we get worse
What is it about the obvious that escapes you here?
@benroyce guess who thought like you, the GOP. and they lost their party to trump. What could be worse? people like you who cant adapt and lose the country to trump
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you just supported my point: MAGA shows up to vote. so they took over the GOP
you don't vote. so you get shitty centrist dems
do you understand?
if the left showed up to vote we could have 50 AOCs. but instead emotionally compromised toxic perfectionists go "I won't vote until get what I want." holy purity is more important than accepting the obvious, apparently
but they live here. it effects them. why do they feel it won't effect them?
i know why:
entitlement and privilege
Ciggy Bringer of SmokeI agree 100%
The party is just an empty vessel
It's owned by whoever shows up to vote
If the left doesn't show up, the party withers to a weak centrist husk
the left could instead take the party over. mob the primaries
this whole notion the party is some controlled monolith is bullshit. whoever shows up owns it
who really believes this notion omnipotent centrist dems have a lock on things. they're weak. beat them. own it. take the party from them
This all amounts to a dare to take over a party by a smaller demos in voting share.
I dare Centrists to actually not light their hair on fire given full run of the table and make better choices on their own, because they out of hand reject that anyone else knows what the fuck they're talking about, by virtue of not already thinking like they do.
who gives a fuck what centrists think?
why do you push this falsehood they are magic and powerful and control everything?
why would this false depiction stop you from doing what you want with the party?
mob the primaries
own the party
THAT is what you do
all there ever is in this world is a sense of agency and a sense of responsibility
to vote and fight for what you want
that's it. there is no better deal. it will never be any different
anyone lacking in a sense of responsibility and a sense of their own agency is entitled to nothing more than a swift kick in the pants
wherever people don't show up to vote, we don't look to whatever some centrist assholes are doing
we look at those who aren't voting
fucking #VOTE
cowboybanjobiker 🤠🪕🚴