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This isn't a gotcha. Most ideological demographics are tiny minorities too small to succeed alone, but 3% of the vote could be the difference between a narrow win and a narrow loss for the DNC.
If you need their votes, start acting like it.
Enjoying the Trump years, “anti”-fascist?
Progressives are not the ones who put you in this position. You did by consistently voting for weak, ineffective leaders. Low information, low engagement voters are what caused Trump to win. You can't win those people with a "We're not Trump" message, because for them that message is meaningless, they don't have any party loyalties or even research who they vote for. They vote based on the message, and you've failed to deliver a good message for the past 10 years.
Also, learn the context of the original comic before embarrassing yourself in the replies.
If progressives voted in the primaries we'd have policy representation in the party. But we mostly don't because of takes like yours.
Or because the corporate wing of the DNC sabotages them at every turn.
Except for when they get elected, which is pretty often.
We were denied that opportunity in 2024.
Were you? I voted in my primaries. Everyone I know did too.
I voted in the primaries I had available to me. You got the genocidal shit you wanted without a primary.
"Everyone but me wants genocide"
Put the insane club away and stop harassing people with unintelligible BS. You heard something and you are throwing it at everyone, even if its irrelevant.
Yes people want primaries. Duh. Not having one last time was an epic fuck-up. Bernie being screwed over also fucked us all. Or does he love genocide because you dislike him too?
Of COURSE everyone you disagree with loves genocide, dont you???
Particularly with an unpopular candidate who doubled down on one particular unpopular policy. You know which one because you get really mad when people criticize it.
Sanders is on the record many times speaking out against genocide. Harris has yet to.
Yes him being anti-genocide was part of the point. Engaging in hyperbole, the idea was that if you disagree with or dislike something you say it loves genocide. That was derived from the many times Ive seen you write something along the lines of "you must support genocide" in a debate or argument where you disagreed with someone. Severely incendiary language is self defeating.
The centrist wing of the party is led by people who support genocide, blatantly out in the open without reservation or hesitation. Sticking with that is too reminiscent of trump supporters' devotion to their idol no matter what he does.
I don't usually use the term BlueMAGA because I think it's silly, but I can definitely see where the people who use it are coming from.
Which comic do you think I’ve misinterpreted, cranky progressive?
The one that this meme format used, dipshit. Have you bothered to learn what happens on it and why it's being used here?
Well, there’s a comic in the post, and a comic in the comment thread we’re replying under, so I just wanted to clarify which one you were referring to. The “Lucy and the Football” trope is commonly used as an analogy for a sucker who keeps falling for the same trick. In this case, it’s calling progressives who vote for Democrats suckers, implying progressives should not vote for Democrats. This helps Republicans win. Dipshit.
No, it's not that. The lesson of the comic is that Lucy should stop fucking yoinking the ball every time he tries to kick it. LUCY is the one being an asshole. AKA, the DNC begs for votes from progressives, promising things to them, and then they proceed to not only NOT do what they promised, but also refuse to do their fucking job. Which is the bare fucking minimum people should ask of politicians, but according to people like YOU that's too much to ask and will result in them fucking losing as if criticism is going to derail their chances. If criticism derailed politicians into losing, TRUMP WOULD NOT BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
You're part of the "54% of Americans read and interpret text at a level below 6th grade" statistic.
Your bespoke interpretation of the Lucy comic is self-serving and almost certainly wrong. Charles Schulz is long dead, so we can’t know for sure, but I’d bet if we could ask him what the point of the strip was, it would be something along the lines of “It’s funny that Charlie keeps falling for the same trick” and not “The reader is supposed to tsk tsk and say ‘Lucy really should cut that out!’”
It’s called slapstick. Believe it or not, it’s supposed to be funny.
You’re very confident in your prediction that accelerationism will work out in the end.
Did you vote for Trump? Because that would have been the rational decision based on your worldview.
I don't vote.
Good people don't vote.
I may not be a good person but I try my best.
And at least I can claim the dignity of refusing to participate in the Epstein class's quadrennial popularity contest.
Who told you that?
you allowed the epstein president another term. stop lying to yourself.
I'm sorry, what presidential candidate in the last five generations wasn't part of the Epstein class?
Even Bill Clinton, a poor boy from rural Arkansas, got to be an honorary member of the Epstein class. And my God did he enjoy the privileges of that class.
you live in an entirely delusional world kiddo.
Obama is part of the epstein class huh?
anything to drag them down to the GOP side's behavior, even if you have to make it up. You're just a giant sad fucking example of people who can't tell the difference between "not my pick" and "fascist fucks"
you didn't get your way, you cried, and everyone else has to suffer your stupidity, you dolt
So you did vote for Trump.
bull fucking shit.
look, hate harris all you want, but iran? venezuela? cuba? migrants in cages?
fuck off with that bullshit, it's not the same, you simply cannot fathom the concept of harm reduction and will happily burn all your allies because you didn't get your way.
POLITICS IS NOT MARRIAGE, YOU DON'T GET TO PICK YOUR IDEAL PARTNER.
you fucking children damned us to all this bullshit. great fucking work.
Remember Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria, Libya, Yemen, Ukraine? And also Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and a dozen others? And all the proxy wars and "interventions" I'm forgetting about or that never made the news?
Pre-Trump America was less blatant in its warmongering. It made the effort to build "international consensus" before bombing the fuck out of poor brown people. And it preferred to made economic warfare, through sanctions, which don't make headlines when they kill poor brown people.
Harris would have killed Iranians with sanctions rather than bombs. And perhaps you think that makes a difference. But whether a little girl dies of starvation from American sanctions, or is blown up by American bombs, she's still fucking dead.
Fuck, Trump's "random bombing go" strategy let Iran close the Strait and made America take the blame for it - and if that lets Iran negotiate with the world and end Western sanctions using the Strait as leverage, Trump's war might end up saving more lives than it kills.
As for migrants in cages: Trump made no new laws. Trump made no new policies, even. Trump enforced existing laws more harshly and blatantly and publicly than America previously had. And Harris promised to do the same fucking thing in her campaign.
What's happening to migrants today is what the American people wanted. The killings, the beatings, the disappearances, the private prisons and forced labor and inhumane conditions, all of it.
Only we saw it happen openly, on the streets in Minneapolis, in front of a million cell phones and cameras, instead of out in the Texas desert where the only cameras belong to the Border Patrol. And seeing the Border Patrol treat middle class white protesters like immigrants was too much for some people.
Putting migrants in cages is what America wants. America just doesn't want to see the cages. It hurts their feelings.
bull fucking shit.
get fucked.
people like you will do anything to drag down the left so it seems as bad as the pedos and war criminals. get fucked with a red hot jackhammer you equivocating dirtbag
Crying because your shithole of a country was finally exposed for what they are?
No tears here baby, at least I can see the difference between trying on the left and fascism on the right. You keep voting for trump, get the life you deserve.
The current DNC is not left. They're right wingers who prefer the death and destruction they cause to have an air of respectability. You wanna go back to brunch and ignore the fact your side bombs brown children and commits war crimes too. You were confronted with the actual reality of what America is and you got butthurt about it.
Also, I'm not American. I'm celebrating the fact you got what you fucking deserved. The only destiny America deserves is balkanization. You hate Trump because he dropped the mask, not because he's an evil fascist. You are perfectly content in allowing America to be what it has been for the last 80 years as long as YOUR GUY is in charge and committing war crimes and putting migrants on cages outside of your view.
Get fucked, gringo. You'll watch helplessly as progressives colonize your party and push you to the side.
That's what you have to tell yourself to sleep at night. You've doomed so fucking many with your petty, childish bullshit, because you had to pout and have your tantrum.
Nice fucking job.
sit and spin racist dickface.
goddamn the entire concept of the new deal is lost on you. civil rights, didn't happen. 40 hr work week? nuh uh. sure buddy.
you fucking pogues.
You got your ideal partner. You got genocide and don't care who provides it.
What a fucking clown response.
Centrists were fine with losing as long as they didn't have to say no to netanyahu.
Everyone they disagree with loves genocide, Crab whatever is a dumbass.