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    4 days ago

    Isn’t that this meme though? Being the lesser of evils doesn’t entitle your candidate to win a popularity contest. I voted for Harris BTW.

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      It should need to be said, but considering where we are:

      IF YOUR OPPONET IS A FASCIST THAT IS HELL-BENT ON RUINING THE LIVES OF ANYONE THAT ISN’T STRAIGHT, WHITE, and MALE-

      YOU FUCKING VOTE AGAINST THEM!

      The audacity and entitlement of so many people that think this is something they can just wait out because the candidates don’t pass their little purity tests blows my fucking mind!

      It’s all hands on deck. YOU VOTE AGAINST THE FASCIST. How much more clear can this be made? Is people dying just not enough of a trigger? The LGBTQ+ is being systemaring wiped the fuck out!

      People need to against this or GTFO.

      After we get the traitorous nazis out of our politics, we can go back to purity tests. Right now, we don’t need the entitlement.

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        IF YOUR OPPONET IS A FADCIAT THAT IS HELL-BENT ON RUINING THE LIVES OF ANYONE THAT ISN’T STRAIGHT, WHITE, and MALE-

        So don’t vote for transphobic Democrats in the general election, got it.

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          jfc…. I cannot believe how eager you all are to repeat the mistakes that got us here. Please. You stay home and don’t vote in the midterms. Express that entitlement MIGHTLY! Come here and proudly proclaim your inability to do the bare minimum to stop fascism. Besides, I honestly don’t think you have the intelligence to know how to do it to begin with, so save the poor volunteers the hassle of having to explain it to you.

          And no, I’m not at all worried about telling you not to vote as I know you weren’t going to anyway. Stay home and be as ignorant as you’d like. Just don’t complain when things get SO much worse.

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        You have prominent democratic consultants like James Carville saying he would rather we loose the house to fascists than negotiate with the DSA. When voters hear that they stop believing it is a dire situation. If the candidates themselves believed the election was existential they would stop doing unpopular things. The call is coming from inside. Framing popularity as a purity test is simply wishing elections behaved differently.

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              If they were honest with themselves they would admit they don’t even believe in democracy. It’s impossible to hold such cynicism towards your neighbors whilst also thinking their opinions matter.

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            4 days ago

            What entitles you to not care? I already voted but I am not under the illusion that the leadership that sleeped walked us into this mess will do anything but buy us more time to organize.

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              What entitles me to not care?? I don’t give a shit about your reasoning. I just want everyone to not live under fascism. That, and I have LGBTQ friends and I don’t like seeing them suffer.

              And I’m not here to debate this, so…. Take it elsewhere.

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                  If people are too fucking stupid to not understand that it’s all hands on deck to vote against a fascist, they need to know about it and be called out for it.

                  People are dying because of this shit. We don’t have time to coddle the entitled. If you don’t like it- feel free to block me, because you’ll definilty be seeing more of this whenever I can make it known.

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                    And I’ll be there to call out how you are attacking the people you claim to care about, not to change their mind, but because you are scared. The latter is valid, but the former is counterproductive.