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You can't beg Democrats because you handed the government to Republicans, again.
Yeah, who wouldn't get super motivated to go out and vote for "we are terrible but we could be worse"
Option 1: They invade cities
Option 2: They don't invade the cities
Option 3: Don't give a fuck about the people in the cities <- This is the option you are supporting here
You just rephrased "we are terrible but could be worse".
Yes you knew those candidates couldn't win and forced them on us anyway. So admit your mistake.
Imagine being so daft that you aren't voting as a civic duty, let alone against fascism.
By not doing that you ensure that more drastic measures HAVE to be taken later on. Great job non voters.
I didn't say whether I voted or not. I said the Democrats messaging wasn't exactly the stuff of inspiration.
Why won't you say if you voted or not?
Nobody asked me if I voted. They just assumed I didn't because I said the Democrats ran a shitty campaign that failed to energize people. It doesn't matter anyway, harris won my state by a huge margin.
You are defending the party that refuses to be popular in a country that chooses leaders based on popular elections. Think about that, while you think about how doing the same thing expecting different results is the definition of stupid, as you prepare to browbeat and yell down everyone for the next aristocratic corporate whore offering nothing but empty platitudes to a population in the face of republicans cheating.
You people have made our situation hopeless, unwilling to admit a mistake you are dragging us all into the abyss.
I'm not saying they can't be better.
I'm saying people should vote as a civic duty and maybe shouldn't be complete jackasses who sit at home and let fascism win. Two things can be true at once.
And I am saying that without getting popular opposition, and at this Point aggressive opposition with organization behind them, a group that knows how to build and run a political machine, then there is zero chance of rescuing the republic. You guys refuse to engage that point and bring it back to if only everybody believed harder and voted. Everybody went way out of their way to get Biden elected in the face of attempts to fix it for republicans, and he did absolutely God damn nothing with it. Then settled us with a doomed to fail candidate, and he was doomed to fail if he stayed in either.
Yeah that must be it. OR you think a pedophile convicted felon is the better choice for president.
Yeah let's pass the buck for the democrats some more. They are clearly the best people to run the opposition! /s
You allowed Trump to come to power. That makes you a scumbag. You want to pretend like you have the high ground when you helped a convicted felon, pedophile who tried to overturn our democracy and is currently destroying the country get elected? Absolutely not.