Diotima @ Diotima @kbin.social

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If America was truly as progressive as some people thought, a third party could sweep the Democrats with a popular progressive candidate

In a word, no. The GOP and the DNC actively collude to ensure that no one else can compete.

No you don’t. Because you have 2 options: Biden or Trump. If you are considering Trump as a legitimate pick, then just say you’re a fascist

So our choices are 1) fascists who support a fascist or 2) ethnic cleansing apologists who are 100% okay with voting for the man supplying weapons and aid to those committing the cleansing.

These results are interesting, though the article does note that the overall results seem to map along party lines for mote contemporary presdients (with notable exceptions, like Clinton.) In case anyone wonders, the polling pool was:

"...current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association ... as well as scholars who had recently published peer-reviewed academic research in key related scholarly journals or academic presses."

So, not a general survey in case anyone wonders.

Edit: I do wonder how balanced this survey was, though... if Obama was 6th and 15h and Biden was 13th among Democrats and 30th among Republicans, and nonetheless 14th overall, it does suggest that the poll was heavily skewed toward Democratic respondents. Nothing wrong with that, just food for thought.

You literally cannot be this stupid.

What does binary mean, you waffle?

And, there it is. The self-own.

If you truly believed that "gender is meaningless" as you say, this would not be a problem. What you really mean is "I dislike that gender is no longer binary and I'm going to create strawman arguments to hide that fact."

Oh great, Reddit is leaking again.

"I don't act like them."

No, they are generally sweet and kind and treat people with respect.

Worse, she's a leftist who somehow missed the "treat people with respect and dignity" principle.

The allies no one wants.

Yeah. "never voted right" but she shares some of the right's worst traits. Aggressive willful ignorance, disdain for facts, bigotry.

"I don't understand"

Clearly.

So go educate yourself and come back when you DO understand. Or you know, don't.

No, she appears to be saying that you lack the knowledge mecessary to particpate in an adult conversation. I would tend to concur, given your comments and post history. Drag queens wear makeup for as many reasons as there are drag queens.

It is alarming that you cannot grasp the most basic understanding of the fights feminism has fought for years. You think drag queens, of all people, are responsible for "bogus notions of femaleness?"

Look, bigot. Just say what you mean. "I hate drag queens and trans women."

You know, you can make up all of the utter bullshit you like, but that still doesn't make it true. So let's translate:

"I see trans people as perpetuating and enforcing categories" - This is you being transphobic. Gender has always been categorical; your problem is not with categorization but with non-CIS genders specifically.

"I am in this new category of female myself." - This is you not even really grasping the concepts on which you're attempting to build an argument. "Female" is not a gender.

"New category" - Tell me you hate trans women without telling me.

"According to drag queen land" - So you don't even grasp the difference between a drag queen and a trans woman? Again, go back and cure your ignorance before opening your trap.

"I don't wear makeup" - Good for you? Drag queens aren;t the ones gatekeeping femininity, you bigot.

Story killed gaming? Nah... story-driven games are what took games out of the basement and into the mainstream. One can only make so many "I have a gun / sword and I kill the things" games before it gets repetitive.

Concur. Larian is a breath of fresh air in a field saturated with pay-to-win, monetized, microtransaction nonsense. I'm not convinced they haven't traveled across dimensions to restore fun and sanity to a hobby that has been all but ruined by greed and laziness.

And we'll continue to pursue a draconian, outdated immigration policy too. Looking forward to this dystopian future, tell you what.

I see Biden's Bidets are stealth downvoting truth again.

This smells an awful lot like the "poor people just need to try harder" nonsense conservatives hit people with when low income people complain about being low income.

I have campaigned for alternate candidates for many years. Unfortunately, it's a battle that I'm meant to lose, every time. Contrast with the average party line voter, whose effort is often showing up for an hour to vote as they're told.

And he was vilified and his supporters were blamed for Clinton's loss, as I recall. The party elite are on record noting that they would be comfortable bypassing the party's choice. There was no real chance that Sanders would get the nomination. Regardless, your assumption that anyone displeased with Biden just sat on their hands is... somewhat ridicluous. Given that they were going up against one of the most powerful political machines in the world, the chance of them making a dent in the establishment, even if they were activists full-time, would be low.

And if you think running within the party is difficult, hoo boy. You don't even want to talk about the anti-democratic fuckery that the GOP and DNC collude to impose on third part hopefuls.

Shades of Clinton's "Russian plant" slander v. Gabbard, perhaps?

It shows nothing of the sort.

There was approximately a zero percent chance, statistically, that the superdelegates would vote for anyone beyond Biden. There was nearly no chance that a challenger would have been received with anything but contempt. This "logic" is the same logic both Reps and Dems use to gaslight third party challengers, too. "If you try real hard you can overcome our utter control of the debates and privileged position to win! We promise!"

Alternately, there WAS a choice and the vast majority of Democrats are okay with a candidate who is 100% okay cutting off aid to the victims of ethnic cleansing. I prefer to hope that that isn't the case.

I am 100% not taking that one for the team thanks.

We've been given the choice between an insane fascist and an ethnic cleansing apologist. That the second is the "good" option is utterly shameful.