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So let me get this straight. Someone says

Waits until the guillotine is half way through the neck

Bro pls bro we have to stop this bro

clearly blaming the past inaction of the Democratic Party for the state of affairs today, and you chime in with:

I hope you have the day you voted for

And go on to double down that you are blaming this person for fascism. And all of this is you not sewing discord or blaming the left? You know who I hate worse than sycophants? Sycophants who constantly lie to rile people up. I don't care or believe who you voted for. You behaving like this only serves fascism.

Then stop blaming the left. You're sewing discord and serving fascism. Hold the Democratic Party accountable for always doing the bare minimum they think they have to and nothing more. That's what's gotten us to where we are, not voters that are fed up with the bullshit.

Give the people something to vote for, don't blame them when all of the options are evil. No more "lesser of two evils," it's clearly not working.

I hope you don't, because yours is today. Maybe actually read my comment to see what day I voted for, jackass.

The line has always been used to silence and bully into coerced obedience the people who most wanted progressive change. The people who have been calling for the party of Fascism Lite to step up their game.

Let me speak plainly: unconditional support for the Democratic Party from people like you is the mechanism by which we've landed where we are today. You refused to hold your party accountable so they put Trump into a position to win 2016. And I mean that quite literally, they did everything they could to make sure he won the primary because they knew they were putting a loser candidate up.

So get off your fucking high horse. I blame you for where we are. And before you come at me: I voted for Bernie in the 2016 & 2020 primaries. I voted for Hillary, Biden, and Kamala in the generals. I've voted in the way that would maximize opposition to fascism at every step. My conscience is clean. You continue to spew insults to people to your left to blame them for your Party's failures. I blame only people to my right who want to keep running in that direction.

If Ukraine wants a breather they can agree to it knowing they need to stay alert for the Russians to break it.

If Ukraine doesn't want to play that game, they can just say "we'll agree to a ceasefire when you leave Ukraine permanently" and carry on.

I typed my comment above on my mobile keyboard. I'm just using the standard Google keyboard on my Pixel, nothing fancy. Em and en dash are available by holding on the hyphen, and the ellipsis is available by holding on the period (annoyingly, only when on the numbers/symbols page).

Hold on — why can't you do proper ellipses and dashes on your phone? I don't understand…

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This would be great if my busy times were actually respected when scheduling meetings. They are not.

Good for you, but still wrong. The party fucked up. It's their job to win elections, and they had loads of opportunities over the last 10 years to act differently and chose not to every time.

It's not the voters' fault that a heavily corporate-friendly party doesn't represent them well enough to reliably get votes. That's some victim blaming thinking right there.

Uh, you missed a few steps. Like the people voicing concerns over Biden's mental health and being told to shove it while the party hid him from public view as much as possible. And then when they couldn't hide it anymore they still tried to gaslight us that we didn't see what we just saw.

And then finally they succumbed to that public pressure when it was far too late to have an actual primary and rally as a party, instead being told to vote for someone who was candidate-by-default.

The Dems constantly try to pander to the right which only fuels their real enemy in elections: voter apathy. If they actually governed and gave more than lip service, they'd never lose another election.

That's why I snatched up a Bolt before Chevy (temporarily, they say) discontinued the line. I even did upgrade it a little to get heated/cooling front seats and a heated steering wheel plus the extra safety features. $32.5k with a $7.5k rebate from the federal Clean Vehicle Credit. So $25k for a car with a 175-280 mile range. (175ish in winter when the battery is less efficient, 280 in summer).

Of course the IRS fucked up the point of sale rebate when I was purchasing, but it's finally incoming with my taxes this year.

I think Jerboa was being pitched as the best RiF alternative super early on in the exodus. I also found myself on it but it never clicked for me.

I was on Connect for a while but there were some things that were a bit harder than they needed to be with different account/instance/filter management. Moved to Voyager and I'm quite happy with it, very smooth experience.

This is very true. ALSO, if you think the Democratic party gives two shits about the economy for working class people, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Allow me to ask again: who did you vote for in the last 3 presidential primaries?

Who did you vote for in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 primaries?

And what exactly makes you think that? I'm royally pissed because I've done everything to stop this and yet centrists can't stop blaming everyone but themselves for the problems they caused. Take some goddamn responsibility.

Gotcha, so complete dismissal. You know that just proves my point, right? Stop blaming a hypothetical nonvoter for the sins of the Democratic party. If you need to blame voters, blame the ones who backed the wrong horse.

Look, I'm not a protest nonvoter but this line does a lot more harm than good. You get to feel smug but all you're doing is alienating the people who voted against this despite having to vote against their conscience to do so.

I feel ideologically aligned with people who couldn't stomach voting for either party, because despite all the stupid mockery both sides are bad. The Republicans are actively evil and the Democrats are knowingly complicit. It's not equally bad, but it's all bad. Every smug comment like yours chips away at my desire to hold my nose and vote for centrist neoliberals against my own interests.

How about instead, for a change, we blame the people who voted in loser candidates like Hillary and Biden? 1/3 is a failing grade, and we're all paying for it because of Hillary's pied piper. Yet people like you continue to blame the people who didn't like a bad candidate.

For those that don't know what the French above said:

Vive le roi = long live the king

Vive la révolution = long live the revolution

Yes, but it's under inflation every year so real wages are still going down. Yet somehow the C-suite can afford to give themselves raises above inflation, even while grumbling about funding and cutting positions left and right. Weird how that works.