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I would for vote Kamala. I would vote for a cactus with sunglasses if it had the Democratic nomination. You would do yourself well to consider anything that is weaking the resolve of the anti-trump sentiment straight poison to your brain. We have only one job this novemeber and that is to stop trump. The Supreme Court has given him the status of king. Quit acting like your vote is sacred and start realizing your vote is your final cry before your rights are forfeited.

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I’m not the one who put in Biden you dip shit. I primaried against him in 2020, was vocally against him in 2021, 2022, and 2023.

You fucking wish that a biden win is impossible. You are the trumper and the fascist and everything that goes with it because effectively, everything you do is for him.

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Who knew it was the guy online who was passionate about stopping trump that gave “everyone in the swing states” the ick.

Apologies.

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lol you say you were against Biden until 2023? And now you’re this? Congratulations, you stand for absolutely nothing.

I hope Biden wins. And then I want him to go to The Hague. Y’all gotta quit pretending that Biden is the only thing saving your country from fascism. It’s an embarrassment.

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You’re the embarrassment. Ushering in fascism and pretending you’re better than anyone. People dead in the streets you’ll sit at home drinking your own piss thinking, “I sure told that guy online once.”

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“I don’t know why you get up in the morning, you’re just gonna die eventually anyway”

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Easier just to block some folks.

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Yes plug your ears to anyone who disagrees with you

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“Blue MAGAs” “It’s over. You lost”

This troll has no intention of having a meaningful discussion. He lives in a bizarre reality where voting against a rapist, dictator, and felon is the same as going full cock in hand for an authoritarian. Block him and move on.

“Blue MAGA” What fucking fascist circlejerk birthed that nonsense?

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The term has been around for just over a year.

AKA Blue Fash/ Blue MAGA/ BNMW (But actually only Biden).

It started as a descriptor for those defending Biden running again (when it was a literal campaign promise that he would stick to one term). Got more traction when the DNC cancelled/ disallowed any debates that would have put Biden on stage and have him challenged from within the party. The DNC pushed for a coronation and fed the line that anyone challenging this was “for Trump” through their various mainstream and alternative outlets.

Dummies ate it up, and post October, say, November, when it was clear that Biden was taking the wrong side of the Gaza/ Israel issue and he started to see challenges to his policies from within the party, thats when the Blue MAGA rhetoric really got going. Its rhetorically very similar to what we saw coming from r/TheDonald in the earliest days of the MAGA movement. No space for nuance, gaslit trolling, vote-shaming, etc.

When we saw a write in campaign for Undecided, that should have been the “SLAM ON BREAKS/ PULL HANDLE TO STOP” moment for Joe Biden, but Blue MAGA, in both mainstream and social media, worked to prevent a serious discussion around Joe Biden until very recently, when it became so appealingly glaring that he couldn’t win, even their abuse wasn’t enough to halt the conversation.

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100% is not going to be yelled at into voting for Biden.

But if you just shame them harder, or maybe tell them Democracy is even MORE on the line than ever ever, pinky promise (sorry we played this card then we didn’t even bother to prosecute the guy who put democracy on the line right before the election and whoopsie it went all fucky wucky and the clock ran out).

There is a culture of trolling and abuse that has been allowed to foment on lemmy where the only acceptable view is effectively a form of diet-facism that comes from within the culture around the DNC, where questioning the decisions and strategies of people who are objectively bad at winning elections is simply disallowed.

This thing’s over with Biden as candidate, and BNMW earned the L.

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They didnt not prosecute him, sycophantic courts managed to delay until this point, and then scotus granted him immunity. That outcome should’ve been obvious when an impeachment couldnt even get through

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Yep, democrats will do anything but appeal to the voters they actually need. Hillary didn’t campaign in Michigan and spent a fortune in campaign money in Texas, but they’re still blaming her loss on Jill Stein (as if people that would rather vote third party in a swing state would switch to the democrats if only you yelled at them enough).

Biden lost critical swing state Muslims, a swathe of Gen Z and there’s probably a bunch of independents that do care about the age issue and also don’t see the “great economy” Biden keeps talking about.

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Idk how to tell you this. They dont need ledtists nearly as much as they need Obama-Ttump-Biden suburbanites in Wisconsin. Even jf you got a replacement candidate, they’d just be a moderate. Because an actual leftist is probably the only thing that would lose even harder

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I am an unapologetic leftist, and, like most other leftists, I do not believe that engaging in the liberal democratic process will, or even can, bring about my ideal society. However, while I don’t think voting is likely to make things meaningfully better, I do think it can prevent things from getting meaningfully worse. Maybe fascism can’t be defeated with votes, but I can’t see how anything is lost by trying. I mean, why make it easier on the fascists? I’m sure the fascists won’t just give up because they lost an election, but that’s not a reason to hold the door open for them. Again, I don’t think voting for Biden (or whoever the Democratic candidate ends up being) is going to make things much better, but I do think not voting for him could make things much worse. So, we (leftists) should all vote for the Democrats this November. Not because it’s going to get us nearer to our ideal, or our ultimate goals, but because it might help prevent the US from being taken over by fascists.

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Do you have your guns, beans, and gasoline ready in case the fascists do win in November?

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Nobody said it would be pretty.

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Will your privilege save you when The Fall occurs?

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Change requires sustained momentum. Bouncing back and forth between Republicans and protest voting against Democrats. Is a sure fire way to see no change. If we were to say, show solidarity and dedication to keep all Republicans from elected office. Republicans would lose relevance and slink away. They might try masquerading under a different name like economic liberals playing Libertarian that generally vote Republican. But they will lose influence.

Once that happens. Then we focus on the worst of the Democrats, primarying every single one and driving them out. That sustained momentum and push is what’s needed. To keep the fascist and the wealthy scattered and disorganized like they’ve kept the left. Though the left has done a fair share of that to itself. The right will eat itself as well especially once they’re not winning.

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Yeah, basically if the Republicans can be crushed in an election or two - Not just defeated, but absolutely demolished - then it could lead to them dissolving, and lead to the Democrats splitting and pushing the Overton window back left

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I’d still argue that’s a bit too short-term. It would have to last years. Not just elections. Probably 3 to 4 presidential elections at minimum. A good decade absence from from National political relevance will get the message across.

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We don’t need to wait for the Republicans to stop existing before we get representation in exchange for our votes. With a more representative electoral system like Ranked Choice voting, people would be free to vote for those that best represents them, secure in the knowledge that their vote would still be counted even if their preference didn’t win. Still counted against the republicans.

You see, we can have democracy and freedom at the same time. How we vote is controlled at the state level, so we should be able to make these changes in blue states where republicans have less influence.

Unless of course, the democrats in power in those blue states aren’t interested in democracy.

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So long as the republicans exist, the amendments necessary to get ranked choice voting wont happen. So yes actually, we do need to wait for them to stop existing

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How sustained are we talking? We ushered in the Biden presidency with a huge mandate in 2020, and snuffed out the alleged “red wave” in ‘22 due to republicans’ reprehensible views on denying women bodily autonomy.

Biden and the establishment Dems have squandered this time by telling Americans who are suffering economically that the economy is doing great. That Biden is better than FDR, while our public infrastructure crumbles and our most popular social programs are at risk of closure.

When should we expect the Democrats to actually do something meaningful that improves the vast majority of normal people’s lives?

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The Biden administration has been directly addressing that crumbling infrastructure with the largest federal infra investment in modern history. It just happens to be boring so the media doesn’t talk about it.

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…the democratic party does not make electoral reform a priority. Are they ever going to address the problem of all these disenfranchised voters who don’t want to vote for them?

Probably not.

Democrats need to beg people they dont represent to vote for them to stop fascism. That’s the point of your entire comment right?

Correct.

Democrats can’t fight the republicans alone.

Yes, that’s true.

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Because the party is a coalition. If they did that, they’d just lose the swing voters who actually play kingmaker to repiblican backlash

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how many times are you going to spam this? espescially that skewed youtube video that seems to be designed to push people toward strategic voting instead of voting for their values.

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I always like to point out that the people on the far right are always going to vote, and they are always going to vote for the Republican candidate no matter what. Even if you feel like there aren’t any “good candidates” you should still vote because even getting a less than ideal president is better than just doing nothing and letting Trump become a dictator for life

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The only real solve is for several people to devote their lives to seeming like milquetoast centre right Democrats, getting into a majority of high ranking committee positions, and then all turn left at once and effect sweeping reforms to the entire platforms

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It’s impossible. You would have to be able to fake “real housewives” type social discourse and be able to social climb in that environment. It guarantees only dumb, thoughtless, bite backing, people will ever hold seats of power. Else you risk GOP game of thrones style politics where the GOAT is a spray tanned ballsack with a golden comb over.

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Exactly why I bothered to describe a comically implausible scenario for everyone’s enjoyment.

I think I’m out of jokes for now, at least until we find out one of Trump’s kids has a mysterious illness that can only be treated by a tall drunk with a disquieting gaze.

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IMO, the solutionis changing how we vote so the disenfranchised are encouraged to participate. More voters equals more democratic votes. So why arent democrats taking these easy votes? All it takes is passing electoral reform in the states they control.

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A number of democrats have supported alternative voting system, but the higher ups are complacent and aloof.

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Because that would lose more moderates than the leftists itd gain. The electorate is a third fascist, a third conservative, about a sixth leftist and a sixth social democrat

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dictator for life LMAO 🤣

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I’m sorry, but this really isn’t true. Almost everyone here, leftist or liberal, is going to vote, and the vast majority of them are going to vote for Biden. There will be some protest votes, especially in safe states, but if you care enough to post on a left-leaning political group, you care enough to try to block Trump.

The people that will cost Biden the election are the people who don’t argue online. They support the Democrats (or at least oppose the Republicans), but they don’t always vote. They probably live in a state without mail-in voting, they probably live paycheck to paycheck, and they really just don’t have a lot of spare time. They’ll go to the polls if they think it’s really important or they’re very enthusiastic about the candidate, but if not, they’d rather rest or get a load of laundry done before work tomorrow, because it’s not that important anyway. The Democrats need to find a way to get those people out if they want to win.

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We all live in the same ecosystem. The people who argue online are the same people who might inspire their dipshit friends to have an opinion. Those people might convince their families to come with them to the polls. Troll farms demonstrated in 2016 and continue to demonstrate that they don’t need to convince anyone. They don’t need to tell lies or trick anyone. They just need to keep everyone at odds with each other. They do that with media loops and feeding negative discussions.

When I post in opposition, I’m not really having an effect. I get to diffuse some of the disinformation upfront which is still pretty good in my eyes. But really I’m just swinging because I have fight in me.

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I mean, fair enough, and it’s not like trying to get leftists and liberals to work together will hurt. I’m just saying, don’t worry too much about those divisions, as they tend to work themselves out; worry about voter turnout. There are also things you can do to help with that, like volunteering to give rides with Souls to the Pools or Carpool Vote.

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Yup, the centre and left needs to stop being so divided and just work together on things we agree with by voting for Joe Biden and supporting ranked choice.

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I tried searching democrats.org for Ranked Choice voting and didn’t get any hits. Can you share the information you have?

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Here is a great resource for that!

https://fairvote.org/

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