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[–] 76 points 3 months ago (160 children)

Gang, this isn't complicated. You fight the Democratic establishment 364 days a year. On election day you pick the lesser evil, which hopefully all that fighting you did made much less evil. We have an archaic election system, and until that changes (work to change it), that's the best path forward.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    In other words, voting isn't enough: it's merely the first step. After "your guys" are in power, you should bully them into keeping their promises and doing more

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Remember when the vote blue no matter who people told us they were gonna move Biden left after he was elected?

    Good times.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    As an non-american, how this is not crystal clear even for the most hardcore communists is an absolute mystery to me.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Because the US first past the post system ensures there's only two parties. So unless you can threaten one, you don't have input.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Get called a trumper 364 days a year by people who love how much like trump the democratic establishment is constantly trying to become.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Fun story, my second-to-last straw with Reddit was being banned from r/democrats for saying Biden should not seek a second term (too old) and they need to hold a primary. I said this repeatedly starting about a year before the election and was called all manner of terrible things while accumulating loads of up and downvotes. When the time for a primary passed I pivoted my message to: Biden should retire (play up a medical issue) so we have the first female president and she has the incumbent bump for the election. I was banned with the message "Shut up, Biden is going to get a second term. Deal with it [inappropriate language]." twelve days before Biden dropped out.

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