The very first one was okay as far as mainstream pol twitter stuff goes, especially for a milquetoast lib. But that was a long time ago.
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The very first one was okay as far as mainstream pol twitter stuff goes, especially for a milquetoast lib. But that was a long time ago.
Controversial opinion but this sucks! It was never very clever or funny, and now it's objectively boring and annoying!
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So no heat for the Dem candidate/campaign who are actually responsible for letting Trump in?
Just another fart-huffing centrist who refuses to post here and find his own groove, but instead offers strategy tips from his trembling perch on a website whose sole function is the enrichment and empowerment of nazis.
Silver made the risky prediction that Obama would win twenty-five years ago and has inexplicably been considered a legitimate mind ever since, despite a batting average worse than a drunk fresh out of cataract surgery.
Harris didn't listen to all sides. She listened to one side: center-right doofus consultants who told her to spend the whole campaign chasing illusory votes from conservatives. If she was as intelligent as you claim, she'd have listened to Progressives instead and she'd have won handily.
Lol
You are a Canadian being inexplicably racist about Americans in one town of one state, so maybe you don't know this, but Harris would have won every vote in Michigan she'd have still lost the election.
So you're blaming one small group of people in one city of one state for Harris losing every swing state?
I recommend you fix whatever happened to your heart and brain that led to you falling for transparent right wing fabrications, and to ask yourself just how many marginalized people you're willing to abandon before you draw a line
It won't make a difference if "yall" keep accepting Dems who refuse to stand for anything.
I'm not obligated to indulge a transphobic goofball in academic debate, nor does it even make sense to prove a negative. You're the one running with a fake narrative invented by the right wing, one which cannot be proven, so you keep demanding I disprove it instead. Sorry, not interested!
Ah, yes, the very real group of people who are Pro-Palestine and voted for Trump as a signal of displeasure for Harris. Again, this is a very real group. Not only real, in fact, but numerous and widespread enough to cost Harris every single swing state and the popular vote itself!
There's no such voters. They are a hallucination of liberals unwilling to grapple with reality, just like the imaginary Conservative-but-willing-to-vote-Dem voters Harris spent her entire campaign chasing.
That's not Gavin Newsom. He has explicitly said so!
I know exactly who I'm talking to: a transphobic goofball eagerly lapping up right wing nonsense in order to do MAGA's work for them.
lmao
Yes, it has been refuted. It's made up. Hokum. Nonsense. Bullshit. You fell for a propaganda campaign from the far-right meant to wedge you into becoming a transphobe, which in time is meant to convert you all the way to right-wing lunatic. I am not going to read your ai slop, sorry!
You're transphobic. You're also using right-wing language like "virtue signal," which I'm sure is coincidence. No one is bullying you - meanwhile you're trying to bully people out of basic rights because you fell for a made-up issue whose architects openly admit is just a wedge to do more damage.
This is nothing. I understand that transphobia is a severe condition and makes you people very hysterical in very short order, but you need to accept that you're in a cult before you can get help leaving it.
No, you're not, and your "background" is either made-up or one you really did a bad job in.
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Not a single one of Newsom's posts has damaged Trump.
Why aren't you pestering Ball for his hostile post? Instead of a confrontational(and overdone) lecture, he could have posted something informative or funny and tried to be part of the solution to the problem he has largely made up. Seems worth a try!
I'm so sorry that your shrill engagement bait delivered the engagement it was designed to generate. But, hey, silver lining: look how much fun you get to have smugly playing the victim! Good for you, bud.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Instead of writing the same boring "bluesky isn't nice enough to bad people" scold we've all seen 5,000 times, maybe you could write something funny or interesting? Just a thought!
I think because some disagreed with her on the issue of kids having phones in school? If not that, I don't know.
It's fascinating to observe the early stages of Anna Kasparian syndrome.
So you've eagerly accepted a far-right talking point that's been refuted by every expert in the field. Why do you think you were so eager to do that?
Oooooooh yeah okay I can get behind that
I don't think It Happened but I do think it's getting to him and that in and of itself is reason enough to carry on
Youre so mad and fixated that you've spent days crying at me on this thread alone. Odd way to show how little you care
What the hell are you talking about
Then why do you guys keep purity testing out everyone left of Center instead of forming a coalition with progressives?
I'm on the scene in NH where crews continue to clean the shit Rudy Giuliani sprayed all over the road. Estimates for removal are two to three days. "We've never seen anything like it," a worker tells me. "It's like a septic tanker exploded." It remains unclear if Mr. Giuliani has stopped defecating.
Well yeah that's the thing. They know that. And the people "proving it" with screenshots know that the right wing know. It's all performative and, unsurprisingly, all playing out on monetized accounts incentivized to help one another boost engagement.
It's all so insincere. The only things that feel earnest are people fighting with each other, and even half of that feels about as real as a WWE promo. Nothing feels new, just an endless cycle of the same arguments and outrage bait.
Opened twitter to find an old post and every tweet was a bluecheck engagement farmer saying "wow the right never made jokes about Biden like the left is making about trump" and then some bluecheck Leftist who knows better saying "ermmmm excuse me" with a screenshot, and it's all just so tiring.
Democracy is when you swear to vote for one of two available slightly dissimilar parties in perpetuity regardless of the platform or quality of candidates, and never ever ever demand anything in exchange.
Why aren't you guys just joining in in the "do not make him the nominee or you will lose" chorus? It seems like scolding voters instead of picking a better candidate to rally behind is a waste of time.
You know full well that she wouldn't vote GOP, which is why people saw it as a bad faith post.
See, that smug 100% thing is why people are reacting poorly. Do you think a billionaire like Pritzker is 100% aligned with progressives? No one is asking for 100%, and Newsom has still failed. You can scold the voters or you can put that energy toward preventing the bad candidate from being nominee.
I mean she'd already answered that question pretty clearly in the post you were replying to. I imagine people thought you were trolling
Maybe they haven't been super forthcoming because you've acted like an aggressive weirdo and kept accusing everyone of all sorts of horrible stuff
My opinion is relevant because it's correct and based on reality. Newsom is a mediocre-at-best governor who'd be a bad president if he even won, which he probably wouldn't. If I were you, I'd find a new hero.
Nope, I'm totally accurate. You're just some weirdo who got mad at me for god knows what and developed an unhealthy fixation. If you're mad about that you can just stop pestering me, no one is forcing you to be here
Yeah a lot of bad things happened because Dems ran a bad candidate whose campaign abandoned all those people you mentioned in favor of chasing Republicans. Sounds like you should be working hard to make sure they don't do that again
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You're just making stuff up
I don't think things a politician explicitly says are a "distraction." Especially when they are clear signals as to where a potential potus platform may fall. Neither you nor Newsom is MLK. Scold politicians and parties, not their victims.
Donald Trump is not an aberration, he is the explicit and inevitable result of America's symptoms and history. Until Dems and centrists understand this, it'll only get worse.
Pritzker is more pro-trans, and I don't know of any other governor planning to run for potus in 2027 who invited nazis on his podcast and summarily agreed with them about trans issues. I'd recommend that instead of scolding voters and marginalized people, you scold parties and politicians.
The fascists still want science and medicine, but wholly under their control. Right now, that's largely taking shape as them courting every useless tech bro(the lazy and stupid thing again). Eventually, this always comes back to contribute to their collapse, but by then, immeasurable harm is done.
For someone who spends so much time stalking and crying about my posts you don't spend much time reading them
Fascists work to destabilize people's faith in all things other than the fascists. Our fascists are lazy and stupid so it's being done sloppily(hiring a barely sentient sack of gelatin to do it), but the goal of eradicating science and medicine as a thing normal people have access to is nothing new.
Damn, sounds like Gavin should apologize for what he did and stay in CA. Then Dems should stop being so feckless and weak so the risk isn't as large. A good step is stop doing "both sides" stuff as if anything the right says matters.
The article isn't paywalled for me, either, and is pretty clear on the point. They weren't given a specific script per se, but there were a lot of strings attached that absolutely tarnishes their credibility and ethics. If you're going to be this angry about it, you should at least read it.
The part where he told the nazi they were in complete alignment on a trans issue. You brought up being an ally. That comes with expectations, the primary of which being "be an ally." Newsom is already proving to be a bad candidate, so why waste time pushing him instead of focusing on a better one?
It smells like a fake one. That's not really a big deal, a ton of his tweets are from other people. But it is a data point worth keeping in mind.
His podcast hangout with nazis is not a secret, go Google it. A key part of being an ally is listening to the overwhelming majority community you're an ally to, even if your initial impressions are contrary. If you're here to troll, just block. Be civil.
The rural poor are inconvenient because they continue to exist even during Democrat terms, which raises confusing questions they don't like to think about.
Maybe "real democrats" should try earning votes for a change. I'd recommend they drop the purity testing and compromise with Progressives instead of wasting time chasing republican votes they'll never, ever get.
I don't love the guy, he's just obviously extremely better suited for the moment than anyone else in the field. At least at the moment.
Signing veto proof legislation is fine, but he has also vetoed trans legislation and literally told a nazi he was in "complete alignment" with the guy on trans issues. I think you should listen to the community instead of saying you'll abandon them because they are unsure of a guy who sucks anyway.
This is by far funnier and stronger than literally all the dumb slop Newsom has been getting applauded for.
Do you think you're having a mature reaction to marginalized people criticizing a politician who has openly signaled he's willing to sacrifice them?
It happens. There's a lot of factors that move people that way. I'm not proposing what I think is a panacea, but a pretty easy way to do some damage to their recruitment
Answer the question
I wonder how quickly that will change into "some" and then "a couple" and then quietly disappear altogether
I didn't say anyone was obligated, and I'm also suggesting these things can steer them in a better direction before they become right wing psychos.
You have two fascist dogwhistles in your bio.
Yeah there are some true believers way up the chain puppeteering things, but their power is not absolute and it can be taken from them. The people they turn into cannon fodder terrorists can be saved, and it can be as easy as just being nice and sincere. Serve as a living example.
It's why you can't surrender anything to them, be it the trappings of faith like Christianity and Norse Paganism or the cultural affectations like being "outdoorsy" or liking football. Everything they are is for memes and shock value and all downstream of what their influencers tell them to think.
Right Wingers don't really believe in anything. The mainstream wear Christianity like a cheap costumes, the terfs pretend to care about women, the fringe adopt occult aesthetics without any real understanding. It's a hollow ideology. That's why sincerity, cringe or not, is vital for the Left.
Mostly the latter
Chasing right wing votes instead of appealing to progressives has cost Dems 100% of their institutional power.
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It's just people memeing their way into hope. Probably
SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN
I don't really think it happened. But I'm also not deleting my dancing crab gifs yet, you know?
A really bad candidate who chose to run a really bad center-right campaign lost the election. Realpolitik. To get your candidate elected, you have to give your base reasons to vote for that candidate. You need to prove that they are good.
genuinely saw a liberal talking about newsom as doing some things wrong (anti-homeless policies) but some things right (trolling trump on the internet) and i really wonder about the worth of that second thing, there. is that doing anything at all
Thank you!
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Youve stalked my posts long enough to know who I think is viable, and I'm sorry that you're so lonely that you're writing fsnfic about me but I just don't think about you
You should work on your pitch if you're going to make up this kind of stuff
Thank you
Tldr, sorry you're mad about whatever you were crying about though
I love this one
Oh. Well, it looks really bad. Also you're scared of homeless people but you've probably never even seen one in person. And my lack of ugly ai slop avatar means I have better taste than you.
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Do you guys think your ai slop avatars look cool
If you don't cast a vote for the GOP you cast a vote for the Dems, so it cancels out.
If seeing progressives say they won't vote Newsom makes you truly believe all this, shouldn't your most urgent purpose be to push Dems into rallying behind a more electable candidate and platform? That's what I'd do instead of blaming trans people for everyone being sent to camps.
He did.
Yes, running unelectable center-right candidates is how we ended up that way. Let's hope Dems learn this time around.