@mastodonmigration
In all but the swift boats, the core issue was things the guy actually did.

I'm not in Maine, but I do share the frustration of center right v. far right general elections because DNC fights progressives harder than fascists.

@katrinakatrinka

Absolutely, but nothing matters if we don't take control of the Senate.

Edit: Again, not a defense of what those guys did, but a plea to focus on the big picture. That is what they are doing running these campaigns. They know that this is all about control of the Senate and they are terrified. We can not fall into this trap.

@mastodonmigration
Everything important still matters.

And even winning the Senate means nothing when they focus on keeping the status quo.

@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration

"Everything important still matters"

on the contrary, the point of a manipulation is its effect

if the effect is to get a #GOP win, the method is employed

so we can play perfectionist games about #Platner, which can easily be deployed as a #psyop because so many people are clueless perfectionists

then we can disengage and not vote and let the GOP win... people that make Platner's sins look like amateur hour

that's the point of the contrived controversy

@benroyce @mastodonmigration
"We" aren't in Maine. At least I'm not.

The Democrats have a problem with the left, which is how they end up with these problematic candidates they then insist people vote for anyway because the GOP is worse.

@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration

#Platner has consistently campaigned on a platform of halting #US military funding to #Israel

now you understand the real purpose behind goosing #perfectionism on the #left to suppress #leftist turnout in the #vote

it is artificially manufactured noise for a #psyop

show me someone upset at Platner's sins, moved to not vote, resulting in a GOP win and all the green lights for Israel to #genocide more, and i'll show you a patsy manipulated by #Likud #trolls

@katrinakatrinka @benroyce

That is not the choice. It would be great if it were. But the choice you have is between GOP and Democratic control of the Senate.

That's the hard reality of politics. We mostly don't get to make good choices, just less bad ones, and we have seen how the more bad ones work our. We are living that nightmare.

@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration

you know what also causes low turn #vote out?

"everything sucks and then you die, waah" #psyop from fake #leftists

serving #Israel's #genocide by helping the #GOP win

it may seem unfair of me to accuse you of this

but imagine if you did this hard working effort to justify helplessness and pessimism, and you didn't even realize the only effect of your mindless #cynicism bullshit

that would be the more insulting accusation

@katrinakatrinka @benroyce @mastodonmigration "I voted for her,"

Nah. Nobody's buyin' it. You all have burned your credibility.