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[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 2 points 13 minutes ago

Oh that's just like the DNC. They never fight. Just look at the North Carolina dnc. Tim Moore is up for reelection and the woman they have put up against him they have done absolutely nothing to get her message out or their message out or any message out. I have only seen one little tiny sign at the Democratic headquarters and then a big ass Roy Cooper sign. They have no fight in them at all. And their whole mantra is vote blue no matter who what choice do I have not vote?

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Fight?!?! Jeez what a violent extremist

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yikes, people are clearly having difficulty detecting the obvious sarcasm in this comment

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 8 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I mean, its my own fault for posting like this here on the autism social media

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

So accurate lol

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

There are also a lot of non-native English speakers here. English is a tricky enough language when used sincerely, then add to that the fact that we English natives are huge fans of sarcasm, and I'm surprised misunderstandings don't happen more often. (I had major culture shock moving to Japan and finding out sarcasm was not a thing there, at all. I always assumed it was part of the human condition.)

[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

You need more interrobangs and 1s. Then they'll know its not serious.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world -4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Unless you're Gen Z or Millennial, in which case you eat crayons and shove your thumb up your ass because you don't wanna take a few hours off of work to go vote against the 4th Reich.

We won't have victory until the younger voter demographic finally usurps the fossils who actually show up to the polls.

[–] Cherries@lemmy.world 3 points 53 minutes ago

I agree with the sentiment that voting is very important, so it's vital to come up with ways increase voter turnout. In an ideal society, everyone would make informed voting decisions, but we don't live in that world. We've seen from recent races that people are coming out in droves to vote for candidates with progressive policies with primary races having higher turnout than even general presidential elections. The key takeaway from this summer seems to be that progressive policies fuel voter turnout, especially amongst younger voters, so the Democratic Party should lean further in that direction.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

As opposed to fighting and never winning, which is what I’ve been doing for decades.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

We're way past "pick your battles"...

This is firmly "fight everywhere" territory, which is what the DNC has been doing, and why were going to gain a shit ton of seats in midterm.

We're actually trying to win every race again.

[–] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

This is firmly "fight everywhere" territory, which is what the DNC has been doing

Especially against the progressives in their own party. If they wanted to lead the progress, they should have gotten behind supporting the Democratic Socialist candidates.