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u/DontDoxxSelfThisTime Sep 03 '26
Liberals to leftists, before the election:
“But voting on your principles could cost the Dems the election, and [insert next election year] will be the most important one ever, we can’t afford to take any risks! We need to make the safe and smart play. You don’t want the other guy, do you?!”
Then, after their bland centrist loses every swing state:
“Well, there’s no point rehashing what happened, because clearly this was the only possible outcome…”
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u/a_library_socialist Sep 03 '26
You're far too generous. After they lose, it's obviously the fault of the left.
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u/original_name37 Sep 04 '26
Leftists are simultaneously too small a group to have any ideological sway in choosing a candidate and large enough a group that the bland centrist loses only because leftists didn't vote for them.
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u/HugeAccountant Sep 03 '26
We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not downward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
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u/LoveShovel Sep 04 '26
"The politics of failure have failed. It's time to make them work again!"
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u/sirfirewolfe Sep 04 '26
I always have to remind myself that that line is a Simpsons bit and not a bushism from a few years later lmao
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u/TheKitchenTrash Sep 03 '26
Oooo I hope these comments go better than the last ones!
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u/amongooseamongus Sep 03 '26
if you don't count the deleted ones :D
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u/TheKitchenTrash Sep 03 '26
Im still in the comment mines under the other one reminding people that actually its a candidate’s responsibility to earn votes, not a voter’s responsibility to vote for their team no matter what
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u/Anastrace Sep 04 '26
It's really weird that it changed. Now candidates are "owed" your vote without anything in return
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u/amongooseamongus Sep 04 '26
man, some of the comments in that other place are as baffling as they are fascinating. so many are arguing against things that are not in the post, and that i didn't say.
it's like they didn't quite understand the point i was making, but still felt vaguely insulted, so they projected onto me whichever position they were most confident arguing against and just went with it.
maybe it was a mistake to use the phrase 'lesser evil', because it seems a lot of them just latched onto that and ignored everything else
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u/Nofsan Sep 03 '26
I love playing catch up with fascists. Hopefully I can keep catching up for eternity.