Good lord people, Newsom and his ilk fucking suck but you still need to hold your nose and vote for them. The lesser of two evils and all that. Fight them til the day you die, but still, vote for the banjaxers when the time comes.
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if you pick the lesser of two evils you are still picking evil. and it accumulates
aug 31, 2025, 5:38 pm • 19 0 • view
What's the alternative though? Pick up a gun and do a revolution?
aug 31, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
stop supporting the lesser evil until they take the hint that good candidates win them elections
aug 31, 2025, 6:09 pm • 2 0 • view
I mean right now the alternative is use all of the available time to pick someone the electorate can actually stomach. Someone *not* evil at all, ideally
sep 1, 2025, 1:54 am • 9 0 • view
You're so close.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 6 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 6:43 pm • 4 0 • view
Do you want the opportunity to vote for a good candidate rather than newsom?
aug 31, 2025, 5:42 pm • 8 0 • view
I'm Norwegian and voted for the Green Party last week.
aug 31, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Okay, do you want the opportunity for other people to be able to vote for someone good instead of the “lesser of two evils”? If so, maybe don’t preemptively indicate that the only option is (less than) the bare minimum
aug 31, 2025, 6:20 pm • 7 0 • view
He's not even been nominated yet. It's not even past midterms. We're telling you he will be unpopular with us and why. Listen and shut the fuck up.
aug 31, 2025, 5:56 pm • 6 0 • view
That lesser of two evils shit is how we got in this situation. It lets both parties get much worse over the long term. You have to look further than one election at a time. Stop repeating the same action and expecting a new result.
aug 31, 2025, 6:11 pm • 6 0 • view
No. Let’s nominate better candidates
aug 31, 2025, 5:47 pm • 5 0 • view
It's kind of hard to fight someone until the day you die while voting to give them enormous power over you and millions of other people.
aug 31, 2025, 6:04 pm • 1 0 • view
No. Extremely no right now, as he isn't even a candidate, so nobody at so needs to even contemplate voting for him. And no, it's good for everyone to know that Newsome has fatal weaknesses should he become a candidate, so that he does not become a candidate and lose due to those errors
sep 1, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 6:44 pm • 3 0 • view
in this case, both evils involve me losing rights, so I don't think I will
aug 31, 2025, 5:42 pm • 13 1 • view
get in bsky.app/profile/iant...
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 5 0 • view
He's a poison pill. If power brokers and Dem bigots push him to the nomination, losing LGBT+real allies votes means we've already lost you can't be strategic when you can't use a bathroom
aug 31, 2025, 10:11 pm • 6 0 • view
no you don't that just signals that you can be intimidated and that they can even push for 99.5% Hitler
aug 31, 2025, 5:10 pm • 21 0 • view
Absolutely not. Get a better candidate.
aug 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 10 0 • view
Stop sucking our blood, your politics are fucking horseshit. It’s like they made you in a lab to ruin everything and make sure these creeps never go away. I hate your cult.
sep 1, 2025, 12:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Disagree. This early, before any election? Absolutely nonsense to not push candidates to do better, and stop being evil. Second, why is the “do anything, save democracy,” requiring persecution? Why is that being held onto? “All hands on deck, but also, fuck some of you, and all science about you.”
aug 31, 2025, 10:12 pm • 3 0 • view
No. I will not. "Lesser of evils" = throwing my child and his friends to the wolves, nah. Trans rights aren't expendible. You don't reach your ends by dooming a whole group of people. This is so dumb.
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 9 0 • view
Nope. Choose someone else it's very simple.
aug 31, 2025, 5:37 pm • 10 0 • view
Please stop. Nobody has to vote for anybody. This sentiment is about moral superiority and pre-scapegoating. If you are a Newsom fan, let him know that his willingness to sacrifice people to cozy up to Bannon and Kirk is a third rail. Persuade him he needs the left to win. Shaming isn't effective.
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 7 0 • view
No ❤️
aug 31, 2025, 5:32 pm • 50 0 • view
Double no
aug 31, 2025, 6:13 pm • 5 0 • view
Good lord people, the election is in OVER THREE YEARS and you’ve already ordained a nominee His recent actions were not even THAT impressive and the centrists are creaming and whining like a drone motor You’re begging us to give up on something better and you’re embarrassing yourself.
aug 31, 2025, 6:05 pm • 6 0 • view
Newsom isn't even running for anything right now, I couldn't vote for him if I tried!
aug 31, 2025, 5:07 pm • 25 0 • view
Yeah, but I was thinking about the presidential election and it's pretty bloody obvious that he is the grassfucker they'll pick.
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
If they choose Newsom, I will sit back, watch it burn, and never lift a finger to help any Democrat.
aug 31, 2025, 6:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Well if people are very vocal that they won't vote for him, we are additionally doing a very useful service if informing the folks inclined to pick Newsome that he will lose and they should pick someone else
sep 1, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
If he hasn't been picked yet, why do they get to declare we need to vote for him? Why can't we declare we won't vote for him, so if they care about democracy they better pick someone else?
aug 31, 2025, 7:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Well, they really need to take this knowledge into the primary: 2.8 million trans people, who have families, friends, and real allies, say no.
sep 1, 2025, 9:05 am • 1 0 • view
It is not actually obvious
aug 31, 2025, 5:35 pm • 7 0 • view
What is obvious is he's got people on here using backlash to generate name recognition without having to actually do shit and pretend like name recognition=inevitable nominee
aug 31, 2025, 5:37 pm • 8 0 • view
Then he better change his opinions on trans people real fast, because I'm not voting for someone who will put myself and my loved ones in danger.
aug 31, 2025, 5:11 pm • 34 0 • view
You almost get it.
aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Sounds like you should pushback on that then because none of us are voting for him.
aug 31, 2025, 5:36 pm • 11 0 • view
We do not need to do anything. Nothing at all.
aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
it's always *you* need to hold your nose and vote for the lesser evil and not *I* need to hold my nose and fight for the values *I* say I believe in
aug 31, 2025, 6:21 pm • 6 0 • view
the lesser of two evils is still evil, dipshit
aug 31, 2025, 5:38 pm • 8 0 • view
Well, that got replies. Can I just say that in my ideal world the next President would be AOC and the VP Bernie, if he's still going strong? Like everyone else here I obviously don't want The Smiler from Transmetropolitan to be running shit.
sep 1, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
hey just wanna let you know that you can go to school to get smarter about the world instead of saying asinine shit like NEEDING to vote for the transphobe
sep 1, 2025, 4:15 am • 10 1 • view
he's not even the candidate. and if you want to beat the fucking fascists, you'll have to run someone other than this diet fascist. you have three years to get it rughf. don't fuck it up.
aug 31, 2025, 5:34 pm • 10 0 • view
99% hitler lib post #4,367,420,369
sep 1, 2025, 2:48 am • 5 0 • view