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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 1 points 23 minutes ago

I had to look her up, but Lisa Cusack is Chairwoman of the California Republican 44th Assembly District. Anybody who sends her a text message like this is going to expect it will be posted publicly.

Also, we here in the West use "liberal" as a synonym for "left wing", but in the rest of the English speaking world, "liberal" is closer to "libertarian", and basically refers to a "conservative". This is why I suggest that we stop using the word "liberal" to describe left wing people. But regardless, her "liberal friend" may think they can say they're liberal without technically lying here, even though they're conservative... but it's probably just a lie. There probably is no friend at all.

I seriously doubt Lisa Cusack has any actual left wing friends, but if she does, none of them would send her a text message that could only be used to help her push Republican propaganda.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 45 points 3 hours ago

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

what is this even in reference to? what is our "liberal Democrat friend" also livid about?

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 28 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Oh, the mayoral election in LA. The republicans nominee came in third and won’t be moving on. It will be two democrats battling it out.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 40 minutes ago

Also of note, the results came out a week after the primary so Republicans are on their "stop the steal", "stolen election" sore loser bullshit again

[–] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago

Outrageous! As a liberal from LA who is also the leader of antifa and worked under Bernie and AOC i am sickened. I don't see why it would matter. Unless the Gop is running a progressive, and even then it would be iffy, I don't think they'd win in LA anyway.

[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 hours ago

As if it would be any sort of contest to have a Dem vs GOP race in LA. This way the general election might not be a foregone conclusion.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 14 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

Is Madison Wisconsin supposed to represent some liberal bastion of wokeness? Wisconsin??

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

It's a liberal college town

[–] WFloyd@lemmy.world 18 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Relative to the surrounding area, and possibly a lot of the Midwest, yes. I lived near there for a little bit, fun town.

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Wisconsin is historically left-leaning. The Republican party was founded here by abolitionists in response to the expansion of slavery. Milwaukee had a few Socialist mayors before the Cold War.

It's a purple state now, but that's only because we're gerrymandered to hell. Most cities tend liberal, but Madison is on another level.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 8 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, it’s very blue and has high voter turnout, the whole of Dane county even

Overall Wisconsin is a pretty purple state

Edit: the state was also horribly gerrymandered after the 2010 midterms until recently. It has been turned around due to wins in the Supreme Court. Currently it is 4-3 left vs right leaning justices, but on August 1 Chris Taylor will replace Rebecca Bradley making it 5-2. Ziegler is next in 2027 meaning it could be 6-1

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't get it

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 32 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The context being they’re friends, it’s very abnormal to string that many points of self description in a niche context if someone’s your friend they know these things

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Also using "liberal" as a noun is a bit pejorative. Most people would say "I'm liberal", not "I'm a liberal".

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

Ahh. Thanks!

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

So nobody wants to talk about how the screenshot indicates it is a text message that was outbound, not received?

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Literally every single text app I've used the past 20 years has had the incoming message on the left of the screen...

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 4 points 2 hours ago

Maybe Lisa has her app set to Arabic. 🤷‍♂️

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Wow, guess we use different apps. Ok My incoming SMS are always colored, and my outgoing are always in grey. To me the screenshot looks staged/outgoing.

[–] trashboat@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

This looks like how incoming iOS messages appear

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It's the opposite for mine.