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If you are existing mods from r/dankmemes, you should be mod here too, kindly DM me on either platform
The many rules inherited from
Unless the candidate is a progressive, then the establishment Dems won't endorse them (unless the progressive wins, then suddenly they totally supported the progressive all along)
(no, I'm not saying don't vote, just frustrated by the fucking hypocrisy)
Don’t just vote Democrat, vote in the primaries.
Ya that's a problem I have in my neck of the words. Everyone complains about who is on the General Election ticket and they just shrug their shoulders about voting in the Primary.
"You mean I have to vote, and then vote again? Ugh, I wasnt even planning to show up to the actual vote. Meh...it'll all work out fine."
Exactly. This times a million. We don't vote in primaries and then get all surprised that the Democratic candidates resemble the folks who voted in the primaries.
Imo if you don't vote in the primaries, you've forfeited your right to bitch about the candidates on the general ticket
Yup, drag the fuckin party left.
Yeah didn’t the Democratic Party take credit for some shit Mamdani got done? Seemed pretty shitty since they tried to stop him from getting elected.
Gang, this isn't complicated. You fight the Democratic establishment 364 days a year. On election day you pick the lesser evil, which hopefully all that fighting you did made much less evil. We have an archaic election system, and until that changes (work to change it), that's the best path forward.
In other words, voting isn't enough: it's merely the first step. After "your guys" are in power, you should bully them into keeping their promises and doing more
As an non-american, how this is not crystal clear even for the most hardcore communists is an absolute mystery to me.
It's so obvious the person who made this is on the left side of this picture.
Only a lib could give the girl on the right both an anarchy patch and a bernie 2020 hat.
It’s so obvious the person who made this is on the left side of this picture.
Anyone who says "blue no matter who" is on the left side of this picture. And on the right politically.
I've started saying "Vote blue no matter who" to dems that think progressives can't win.
I care about my constituents, even though they're filthy unhoused vape addicted lazy Bernie bros. Fist bump!
I hate this so much
"Would you like to be stabbed or punched in the face? If you don't pick one we'll go for the stabbing."
I hate it, but please vote.
Or, now here me out, Dems could run a platform people want to vote for?
That's the joke. The vote blue no matter who enables fascists, so saying it's what they fear is funny.
Technically, this could move in the opposite direction.
It just never does, for some reason.
It's almost like political hierarchies run by the Epstein class and centrists prefer conservatism over progress.
The thing about this that really makes me ashamed of the democratic establishment is the depiction of the girl on the right vs on the left. This post is literally trying to marginalize progressives. Just look at lemmy, half the progressives here are cishet conputer programmers and Linux nerds in their 40s. This post is trying to enforce a harmful stereotype to make progressives seem like a smaller, less influencial, more radicalized group. It's already playing into bigotry: the progressive is shown as younger (ageism), with darker skin (racism), more "radical" views, as a drug addict., etc; enforcing the bias that progressives are somehow irresponsible young'uns with unrealistic world-views. Fuck this shit. Never thought I'd see something so obviously bigoted on Lemmy.
Yay.
Election season.
People telling me to vote blue no matter who like I haven’t been doing that since I was 18.
And I’m fucking old.
Not to mention the arguments. People just mad everywhere.
I love politics and don’t hate this stupid game I’m forced to play and always lose.
What a stupid world.
I'mma vote for the lesser of two evils. What I won't do is fist bump a republican liteᵗᵐ like they didn't torpedo every fucking progressive they could. I remember south carolina, biden was dead in the water and suddenly "centrists consolidated" and he was a fucking front runner.
Fascists don't fear blue voters. You know what they fear? Shattered teeth
Bricks.
They fear bricks.
No its, vote blue no matter who* only applicable if the said blue candidate is not progressive
and the whole fucking time we are voting in primaries, it’s all “progressive candidates can’t win the election” and astroturfed lies and slander using democratic funds to hurt itself in its own confusion. want my vote? field candidates that i would vote for.
and no kings is performative at best
Eww reddit content in my lemmy feed
More dem slop, they still don't understand why they can't win elections. I'd point it out for them, but they'd just scream 'blue no matter who' instead of listening.
This makes me want to throw up
It benefits the security state for a Dem to take the helm and lull the masses back to sleep with sweet words while continuing 99% of Trump's policies
Nah I'm sticking third party. Not like the Dems care about my state anyway or that anyone worth a damn would run in the primaries here.
at GITMO they refuse to show this pic to inmates because it’s considered torture.
Good job OP, you earned your label.
"ANY BLUE WILL DO™"^*^
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