• Rusty Shackleford@programming.dev
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    I’ve held my nose and voted for the Democrats my entire adult life, including mid-terms. Guess I just gotta take it up the ass like the good rube that I am, since the Democrats don’t know how to win.

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      Primary them. The primary is where a protest vote actually matters. It’s where you’ll get the opportunity to replace your dem with a BETTER candidate instead of a worse one in the general election.

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        Primary them. The primary is where a protest vote actually matters.

        Provided the primaries are trustworthy. Or exist at all.

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        I agree. What really disheartened me and cemented them as “Corpo-fascist Lite” was the DNCs fuckery against Bernie Sanders and his willingness to let the chairwoman and Hillary get away with it.

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      Why are you ashamed at yourself for doing the correct thing? Likening yourself to a cuck surrendering to rape because you voted for your own wellbeing and that of others?

      I’m not seeing the connection here. Maybe keep your weird sexual fantasies out of politics, or start assigning blame where it deserves to be.

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        Why are you ashamed at yourself for doing the correct thing?

        Voting to give genocide support a mandate is not the correct thing to anyone but centrists.

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        I was speaking figuratively, dummy. The “blame” for the inability to win lies upon the corporatist/“fascist-lite” DNC and their sycophants and cronies. Especially considering that in the last election, they had the largest campaign war-chest in recorded history and still lost. They’ve continuously paid lip-service to the working class and now they wonder why they lose they’re hated.

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        YOU are the one that brought up the weird sexual fantasies, only to blame them on him. Calm down.