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Why are you whining about these shitlibs who won’t change their view? You won’t get centrist Democrats moving to you. You need to replace these people through primaries.
Is that the excuse not to vote, if you’re in that country? So you got something to whine about?
Aren’t there primaries going on now? If so and you haven’t, why aren’t you voting for or helping out your chosen candidate, one who isn’t a shitlib?
The primaries where the party selectively protects centrist incumbents like Henry Cuellar, but not progressive incumbents like Cori Bush or Jamaal Bowman. The primaries we didn't even get in the 2024 presidential election. The primaries that the party successfully argued in court that they don't have to run honestly.
Don't treat primaries like a panacea to people who no longer trust the primary process.
God you people are full of excuses. They’re right; this is American resistance.
It works for the opposition well enough, and has for decades.
Oh fuck off with this. Your wing of the party found endless excuses for not doing what they campaigned on. Your wing of the party found the votes to block everything. Until netanyahu wanted weapons, then all those excuses vanished instantly and the law was no impediment.
Republicans fight for the reprehensible shit republican voters want. It's too bad that's also what you fight for while expecting lockstep fealty.
Nup, it’s the truth. Can’t vote because job. Candidate is not perfect and is responsible for some one else actions overseas. I didn’t vote for him. I can’t do anything. It was rigged. My vote doesn’t make a difference. Take a card ay. Every American has an excuse, they just build it around their situation.
Not an American. Listen to Obama. Don’t whinge, vote. For the record, I agree, the centrist Democrats are very disappointing and quite beholden to bad actors.
Take that up with them, but having Harris as your president now would definitely be better for you and everyone.
Set this up years ago with Epstein and got the ball rolling for this by instigating this with his Hamas mates. All done so Americans willing to hold Democrats responsible for that attack through emotional appeal via genocide, and they came in hook, line and sinker. Played. Disgracefully I might add.
It’s not the first time, they tried similar shit on Clinton, remember? Another terrible candidate. We’d still be in a better place had she won though.
Yes. We have been saying this for years. Back then it was ‘I don’t gave to bite, it’s my right, mind your own business’. Without realising, as you see now, what weight that vote has. Another reason to respect it.
I repeat, I am not one of these people you want to pigeonhole me as. I want you all to vote, participate and take politics seriously. Recognise your system, as it stands, offers only one way to fix it and that is to graft it out by voting for your people and backing them. That’s it. If I see Newsom as the runner I know you will have failed the primary and that will be on you. I don’t want Newsom, I want your progressive. Don’t let us down again.
Provided we always vote for genocide and nothing else.
Party leadership successfully argued in court that they have the right to rig the primaries so we only get whatever genocidal shit they and you want.,
No I want you to vote. If you do it the way you shoukd that shouldn’t happen, provided enough of you do.
I’m sorry. I’m not your Zionist.
And if AOC runs in the primary, I want you and others voting for her
A progressive, young candidate. I have for years. I would have been happy with Sanders. I know, it hurts, but fight it…I’m not who you want me to be
Bullshit. You are only happy when people vote for genocidal shit with a fake smile on their faces.
<Bullshit. You are only happy
Yep, tell yourself that. Useful tool. Kid killer. Pedophile enabler.
I. Voted. For. Harris.
Great. I said that based on nationality not voting intention.
Sorry for being outnumbered by the genocidal. You're happy I am.
I’m just tired of Americans to be honest. Their excuses, their assumptions like you’re making.
It’s just childish man, grow up, fuck
I’m not answering your shit anymore, seppo. Fuck off.
So interact with someone else.
Grow up and love only genocide like you.
Hey you blokes got sand in your genitals not me
I’d have been cool with a down vote
Still being an assumptive child I see, but hey
I thought you said you weren't talking to me anymore. Just like when you said that you don't love genocide, you were lying.
Yeah I got you confused with the other whiny shitdick. Sorry.
You're still polluting my inbox with your tireless genocide apologia.
did i say anything about not voting in primaries ? harris didn’t even get 1000 votes in 2020 primaries and was made vp in place of warren who came third with 3 million votes. what primaries were there in 24 ? its interesting that close to midterms we are again seeing this “lesser evil” jargon to sell garbage candidates backed by aipac and dnc elites
i am voting all the primaries, but i am not voting for some trash like newsom even if he wins in 28 primaries by 99%. instead of palantir and oracle like trump, he will be killing working class for all the ai parasites like openai and meta.
You said sham, which indicates by proxy a lack of desire to participate.
Yes, I said shitlibs won’t change. Primaries have nothing to do with who gets picked as VP. They’re there for you to put who you want in as runner. Works well enough for the other team.
None, shitlibs.
Really? Why are you surprised? Fun fact: this has been going on for a long, long time. Why? Because the people don’t vote in numbers, not do they understand their system well enough to get it to work for them.
You know who does? Yep, Republicans. They do this time in time out and religiously. They don’t piss and moan about this candidate or that; they vote the nutbag in at primary time then follow up. They do, not whinge.
Good, if you and enough others do it, you should get your candidate.
Who is better than Trump, if he’s the candidate and you don’t nothing changes and your system allows no other approach. You will be letting your country down again.
If you think Newsom is as bad as Trump you’re outright stupid.
If you think he's an acceptable candidate, you'll be blaming everyone who tells you he'll lose when it happens.
I don’t. Get out there in the primaries, make sure it’s not him.
But for fuck sake if that fails, don’t abstain. Vote the letter, like the winners do
That much is crystal clear.
More gloating from the genocide wing that rigs and prevents primaries in such a way that non-genocidal candidates are shut out of the process, not by the voters but by the party apparatus.
I fucking didn't. But that will NEVER stop you genocide lovers from assuming that anyone who isn't as delighted by genocide as you have always been and always will be doesn't already vote for what you pretend is harm reduction. You would have voted for trump all three times if his opponent had breathed a word to indicate that they would actually follow the law regarding supplying weapons for genocide.
Hahaha bright eyes I’m not the one who elected and us going through all this ay. I wouldn’t be pulling that shit on if I were you
More tribal American shit from tribal Americans who cannot think beyond their movement in politics.
Republicans have had no issues with it for the past…decades…
You say that, I reckon it’s just simply not enough of you voting
But yes, it’s on me and my tribe, my wing. I helped prevent your candidates from getting there.
Excellent.
Yep, totally support the actions of Israel, you said so and will keep doing so regardless if tge truth because your points hinge on that necessity; I must be a Zionist
This is a stupid fuckin statement and deserves little regard.
As a foreigner, I’ve been opposing Trump openly since he ran the first time. I’ve called this shit since Gingrich and Ryan were obstructing Obama. Back then you were telling us it couldn’t happen, the Supreme Court would stop it, I knew you fools would let the country fall. I hoped you wouldn’t do it twice, but here we are.
You’ll do it again too, if you’re lucky enough to get a reprieve.
I was doing nothing of the sort. I was doing the same thing I'm doing now, being upset at centrist democrats for capitulating to fascists every chance they get.
Great. Then you should know fucken better you gormless clown.
Fuck me. Ay?
This is what you say to people who voted for harris but still don't like her because she's a genocidal piece of shit.
Yes, fuck you and all other genocide supporters.
Champ for the final time I’m not an American, aren’t part of the tribal scene and I vote on social issues close to home for parties and independents who broadly support the Palestinian position. Though it is not a voting issue for me, never has been, I don’t support parties or reps that are otherwise positioned.
It’s broadly not a voting issue for me.
That’s your positioning of me, not the truth. Your country’s failure is its inability to vote, in primaries or main elections. That has been the case for a long time.
The president you have reflects the country in every way. The excuses they give, typical of privileged people who don’t understand how much influence their vote genuinely holds.
Immature, selfish people with a fitting leadership. Pedophile enablers, double tappers on schools.
Why do you think I'm providing excuses for not voting when I vote in the primaries and the general election every time?
As long as I say anything less than worshipful of netanyahu, you will continue to ignore how I voted.
“this time sham” meant the 24 primaries where the democratic candidate was selected for us based on the most obedient pet for superpacs and israel.
as for other points, i dont give a shit what republicans do. if a candidate doesn’t meet the minimum standards, no one should be voting for them. we will never get a candidate like obama or sanders ever again if we keep voting snakes painted in fake blue color. and sooner or later they will as bad as red snakes. or worse
dnc elites only stopped whining about mamdani during the primaries when it became clear its helping him as most nyc voters hated them as much as republicans
Didn’t happen because the incumbent was originally running. That only changed because it became apparent he’d get flogged.
The ones who did have primaries were Republicans, though they all pulled out when…it became apparent who they’d all vote for. Hmm.
I would. They school you pretty much every election, both the centrists and the left.
Was an independent and never getting their support.
Is a centrist and not that much better than Harris so I’m not sure where you’re headed with that. That said, Obama was a very good president. I have no doubt Harris would have at least been better than Trump and here’s the kicker…there’d certainly be no war and there’d be a peace process underway in Gaza.
I hear this a lot but have yet to see it come to fruition, as tepid as they are
Never stopped whining about Mamdani until the last gasp, so much so, one ran against him. They don’t change and you will not drag them to it. You’ll kill your country trying though.
good one, boy do i have bridges to sell you. and you were calling me stupid.
go through this Kamala Harris says Iran is ‘greatest adversary’ of US Democratic presidential candidate says preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon is one of her top priorities.
ofcourse there won’t be war. it will be a special military op with a much better propaganda and likely dragging other nato countries in it too.
iran war was already decided by people who control both party leaders even before the election. only way it wouldn’t have happened was a 3rd party winning which can’t happen (or warren or bernie wining 2020)
do you know both harris and pelosi worked hard to defund a california state initiative to help independent candidates get basic financial support on getting enough votes ?
go through her political carrier, she had always been a out of touch hack who would have easily joined trump like tulsi if it meant better prospects. she had taken millions from aipac and married to a rich ultra zionist lawyer. i have no doubt she will be negotiating relelection campaign in return of turning tehran to gaza and murdering iranian kids by labelling them hamas
Well good for you champion and good for your link. Under Harris there’d have been a shitload more vetting for a start. There is no way she’d have carried out the strikes Trump has nor allowed the Israelis to do the same.
Harris comments do not interpret into a full scale attack. In fact there’s nothing there that says her intention isn’t to use negotiation or soft power to achieve that. What actually was going on before…well, you non voting or Trump voting clowns I guess. The rest is history.
I’m well aware she’s an out of touch hack as you put it, but this war was started because Netanyahu has full control over the fool Americans elected again. That was why Netanyahu conspired with Hamas to start that attack in the first place…to fool Americans into not voting for Biden and by extension Harris. To fool them into not voting, plus start the holy war he’s wanted to start for decades.
You were all played, and easily too. All it took was some great espionage thanks to Epstein and knowledge that a massive portion of American voters are lazy, stupid, awful people and easily played. That you continue go in with your view that she would have been as bad is childish. Well it’s a fart sniffing exercise as we know, but anyway. Yeah, sure, she’ll support Israel but this wouldn’t have been happening and anyone rational knows that.
You’ll be played again as well.
i don’t understand, almost all of the logic in your reply is our democracy is a farce in two party system and we need to wipe out both parties and israel to have a any hope of future. but your conclusion is no we should keep participating in it with no minimum standards else one will “lazy stupid and awful” ?
and yes the presidential candidate who said not a single negative thing about isreal during her entire campaign and or did anything as vp to stop israel from bombing hospital tents or kids just collecting water would have done nothing different with iran other than crocodile tears once on a while for “unavoidable tragedies of war”
fuck her and may she rot in the same hell beside biden, trump and rest of maga trash.
Nope, my position is their citizens keep voting in primaries for candidates who will effect change, then vote them in as reps.
My rationale for it is the Republicans have been doing exactly that for decades and succeeding. It will work for the other side too but it will take time and commitment.
Provided that now, because the Republicans have done this with the lunatics for so long and those lunatics know that voting is critical, they get a fair vote.
It doesn’t matter though, no matter what’s blitheringly obvious, you won’t listen and you’ll just keep on pushing ‘you’re naive; it’s all a conspiracy and Dems are as bad as the others because they won’t change for me’
Next, please. You’re like a conga line of piss and moan
yeah its conspiracy that biden shamelessly did what 90% of voter base was against and harris said she will do it again. now trump is doing what 60% his base is against.
all the piss and moaning is done by blue maga cucks who keep posting these cringe meme like this post we are replying to. we are not asking for perfection, only that adhere to agendas your entire voter base wants. no compromise on stopping corpo parasites and genocide.
What? Parachute Harris in? IIRC, that was a broadly popular move.
It does not alter my original and only genuine point though; if you and your ilk all vote, you’ll stop this. That is evidenced by the Republicans doing the same.
No, he’s doing worse, because there’s no way this would be going on Harris been elected. We all told you this would happen around the time we told you that you’d elect him again.
Is being done collectively by Americans, not just blue MAGA cucks as you put it. They’re all full of excuses, they just vary in angle. Poor reps. Can’t vote because job. Not me I didn’t vote for it. This is not what I voted for. We can’t do anything it’s rigged. Take a card.
Not mine. Check my country. I’ll throw you a bone; I agree, I think the Democrats are dogshit, offer dogshit candidates, are beholden to outside influences and there’s rationale behind the complaints of the left. Absolutely. Fucken oath they should have backed Sanders, Warren,AOC and I’m glad Mamdani owned them because it is finally proof to the shitlibs that progressive candidates are what is needed.
Just vote. Participate, even if it’s a non desirable candidate who at least won’t continue a petrochemical war. Until you can get the people in who will then make voting third party worthwhile by offering ranked choice as you call it, it’s counterproductive. I know, but they won’t, okay? The long route is the only way.