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34 | 10.76% |
| I am dumb. |
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26 | 8.23% |
| I don’t have eight hours to wait in line with no water. |
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16 | 5.06% |
| I lust for death. |
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49 | 15.51% |
| I am too principled to vote for an imperfect candidate. |
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31 | 9.81% |
| I smell like old hamburger meat. |
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25 | 7.91% |
| gently caress you OP, you’re not my dad. |
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62 | 19.62% |
| I am not American. |
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73 | 23.10% |
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2nd Amendment posted:I've been playing the long game for 22 years. How long is it? What YOU want is not what the suburban housewife who really wishes the Democrats respected our brave police officers, but she just couldn't vote Republican after they banned abortion wants
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feelix posted:What YOU want is not what the suburban housewife who really wishes the Democrats respected our brave police officers, but she just couldn't vote Republican after they banned abortion wants Cool. That theoretical construct can vote. Dems chasing that theoretical construct over people like me, who have been loyal voters, is why Dems keep losing. Why should I vote for assholes who give me nothing?
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Nov 9, 2022 08:03
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2nd Amendment posted:Why should I vote for assholes who give me nothing? If the other option is otherwise to vote for the big strong assholes that takes stuff away from you?
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Nov 9, 2022 11:10
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Nov 9, 2022 14:39
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Leper Go-getter posted:If the other option is otherwise to vote for the big strong assholes that takes stuff away from you? Trump sent out more free covid relief money than Biden did
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Nov 9, 2022 15:40
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2nd Amendment posted:Growing up the coolest water park in the Dells was explicitly biblical. I didn't make the connection because I wasn't raised in an Abrahamic religion so while I was familiar with the myth, a myth is just a myth. Looking at how the Wisconsin Idea has evolved, well, no. Christian fascism in plain sight is just that. The coolest water park in the Dells is now Mount Olympus. We have killed Jehovah and replaced him with the Old Gods.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Directly. Like, hands on their chest directly. That's physical, at the moment, trying to help someone. It's immediate and you have to do what you can right away. You know? how are you still a mod lmao
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Extra Large Marge posted:The coolest water park in the Dells is now Mount Olympus. We have killed Jehovah and replaced him with the Old Gods. Maybe good things are possible
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Nov 9, 2022 16:18
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Leper Go-getter posted:If the other option is otherwise to vote for the big strong assholes that takes stuff away from you? Republicans don't take stuff away from me. If I view it through the lens of my own class interest, they materially help me way more than dems. I'm not evil so I recognize that Republicans hurt other people and that's bad. But since the dems are completely useless I don't see that as much of a reason to go out and vote for them.
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Nov 9, 2022 16:20
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:how are you still a mod lmao same but for all the gbs mods
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lol if you care about anything at all, ever, because caring is uncool, and mocking others who care makes you cooler.
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satanic splash-back posted:lol if you care about anything at all, ever, because caring is uncool, and mocking others who care makes you cooler. who are you accusing of not caring here?
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Nov 9, 2022 17:13
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Posting through a mental breakdown is not caring.
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Posting through a mental breakdown is not caring. being upset at a lovely broken world is not a mental breakdown wtf is wrong with you people jfc
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Elephant Ambush posted:being upset at a lovely broken world is not a mental breakdown wtf is wrong with you people jfc He's a traeger guy 
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Elephant Ambush posted:the democrats will never move left until they've been basically forced to do so through lack of votes
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Elephant Ambush posted:being upset at a lovely broken world is not a mental breakdown wtf is wrong with you people jfc Lol yea totally normal posting.
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Elephant Ambush posted:being upset at a lovely broken world is not a mental breakdown wtf is wrong with you people jfc Buddy the planets been hosed since humans evolved, dunno if you've ever taken a history class this aint nothing new
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Giraffe posted:When a majority of a district votes Republican over centrist Democrat, in what universe does it make sense for the next Democrat to move farther left? Politicians who don’t appeal to the voters who actually show up don’t get very far. See Bernie Sanders in 2020. Lots of talk online, hardly any actual votes in the primary. Progressives chose Joe Biden by staying home. Is this your genuine analysis of the 2020 primary, like it was a perfectly level playing field that came down to the will of the people voting for the candidate that matched their interests most?
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Mr. Crow posted:Buddy the planets been hosed since humans evolved, dunno if you've ever taken a history class this aint nothing new Please read posts better thanks
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Nov 9, 2022 18:46
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Expressing basic human emotions in written form is not a meltdown and all you drama weirdos really need to stop accusing everyone of being mentally unwell when they get upset that their fellow humans are starving and dying and nobody is doing anything about it Getting upset at that kind of stuff is very normal. It's empathy and frustration and it's hosed up to try to frame those people as having some kind of problem
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Nov 9, 2022 18:52
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ArbitraryC posted:Is this your genuine analysis of the 2020 primary, like it was a perfectly level playing field that came down to the will of the people voting for the candidate that matched their interests most? Wasn’t Bernie leading until the dems colluded to have several candidates drop out and endorse Biden at the same time right before a large primary?
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Plus buttman claiming victory and having the backing of the party apparatus to steal votes from Bernie. Nice foreshadowing of what Trump did there.
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Elephant Ambush posted:Expressing basic human emotions in written form is not a meltdown and all you drama weirdos really need to stop accusing everyone of being mentally unwell when they get upset that their fellow humans are starving and dying and nobody is doing anything about it Being upset isnt the problem melting down and blaming random people on a comedy website with made up arguments is, hth For example I voted a couple weeks ago (which is why i wasnt voting this week  ), so that other guy can kindly gently caress off
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Wifi Toilet posted:Wasn’t Bernie leading until the dems colluded to have several candidates drop out and endorse Biden at the same time right before a large primary? Is there a clear eyed narrative describing all of this? I feel like it gets dismissed as "Bernie would have won" but I'm curious what actually happened and if he really was rat hosed like some claim.
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https://twitter.com/MinnesotaDFL/status/1590256795901374465?t=d8vy3zvFS8BrmNAlYLoQSA&s=19 😎 Maybe you other states should try being less chuddy don't blame me I didn't vote 😎
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Nov 9, 2022 21:52
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2nd Amendment posted:Cool. That theoretical construct can vote. Dems chasing that theoretical construct over people like me, who have been loyal voters, is why Dems keep losing.
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Nov 9, 2022 22:33
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Wifi Toilet posted:Wasn’t Bernie leading until the dems colluded to have several candidates drop out and endorse Biden at the same time right before a large primary? I was more meaning the policy thing. If you looked at polls and exit polls the issues supported and prioritized by the primary voters had no overlap with Biden’s policy platform, stuff like UHC and loan forgiveness, legal weed, and such were wildly popular within the democratic base, even republicans polled pretty neutrally on them. But the media was just running a never ending stream of interference that resulted in people voting not based on policy but on “electability”. Beating Trump was the number 1 goal and there was just a 24/7 propaganda cycle that Biden was the only one who could do it. The idea that Biden was selected in the primary because he most closely mirrored the policy desires of the base is a willfully ignorant take if you took even two seconds to look at polling on policy during 2020. I mean hell just look at the huge bump in approval Biden got when he finally caved and proposed that 10k debt forgiveness, that’s what his voters want but it’s not what he wants. There’s not going to be a strong left run without a major shakeup because there’s too much institutional oppression, not because the policies are unpopular with the people.
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There is no way in hell the DNC would have allowed Bernie, or any actual leftist, to be the candidate. He would have actively tried to make real change and no one with money funding our govt really wants that.
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Nuts and Gum posted:There is no way in hell the DNC would have allowed Bernie, or any actual leftist, to be the candidate. He would have actively tried to make real change and no one with money funding our govt really wants that. Can you elaborate? Like what would the DNC do if Bernie won enough primaries to be the Democratic candidate? Or are you saying there would be back room shenanigans to prevent him from winning enough primaries?
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A Strange Aeon posted:Can you elaborate? Like what would the DNC do if Bernie won enough primaries to be the Democratic candidate? Or are you saying there would be back room shenanigans to prevent him from winning enough primaries? My guess is they would never allow him to be in enough debates for it to get that far. I’m basing this on the history of DNC candidates, maybe someday someone like him can eventually break through, like how the internet fueled Ron Paul outside of any major party support. But, I think Paul was running on the independent ticket so the RNC didn’t have to worry about it enough to sabotage him.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Can you elaborate? Like what would the DNC do if Bernie won enough primaries to be the Democratic candidate? Or are you saying there would be back room shenanigans to prevent him from winning enough primaries? sanders won the first three primaries in 2020, and is the first democratic candidate in history since the primary system was implemented to do that and not take the nomination. it's not a question of "would," we're living in the timeline where this happened. it's documented that, for example, before the primaries, obama was prepared to "speak up to stop sanders" and democratic superdelegates were not shy about the prospect. after those first three primaries, buttigieg and klobuchar dropped out - obama's phone call to buttigieg exhorting him to use his leverage to maximum effect is also documented - even though the buttigieg campaign still falsely maintained it won iowa and the winner of the crucial first primary dropping out was unheard of. in contrast, warren, despite being a no-hoper, remained in the campaign until after super tuesday. this was matched with jim clyburn's push to make south carolina's primary somehow crucial even though it doesn't vote democratic in the general, and a media apparatus made up of people like chris matthews who were terrified that a sanders win meant they were gonna get guillotined in central park. (if only, eh?) in this way, "back room shenanigans" coalesced to construct a comeback narrative and manufacture consent for biden on super tuesday among the democratic primary electorate. of course, doing this is not illegal or somehow "against the rules" (fitting with the DNC's legal claim that it has no obligation to run a fair primary). and moreover, sanders certainly chose to acquiesce, for better or for worse. but to claim that there was no appetite among democratic primary voters for sanders' policies (let alone among the general electorate), or that the 2020 democratic primary was organic, is ahistorical and frankly absurd. in other news, the democrats did much better yesterday than pretty much anyone was expecting. many of their stars, like stacey abrams, beto o'rourke, and val demings, ate poo poo, cortez masto looks to be in trouble, and warnock is going to a runoff last I checked, but many other ominous-looking races did not pan out that way. I hope to be proved wrong about all the actual action they're gonna take with these results.
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