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we watched biden fuel a genocide for a year. and kamala was all evasive and noncommittal about it, like we wouldn't know that meant she'd do the same thing. that absolutely loses an election. and the candidate is literally who is being voted for, they absolutely have the most culpability.
December 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
it's both the voters and the candidate. but the candidate holds a hell of lot more culpability, so i don't know why it's only her that people jump up to defend. kamala thought she could win without budging on genocide. that was cruel and stupid. voters just weren't jaded and ruthless enough.
December 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
moderates have convinced themselves that biden/kamala didn't totally shit the bed and ruin our lives, and that the genocide we watched them assist for a year wasn't a deciding factor. kamala will likely run in 2028 like this never happened, and if she wins the primary, we'll all go down with her.
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
if it's always the voters' fault because "they should've known how important it was to stop trump", then candidates are never responsible for losing, as long as they were a slightly better choice than fascism. almost like the dems care more about avoiding consequences than preventing fascism
December 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
then why did you ask them to offer up an alternative in that smartass tone, just in response to them calling out newsom?
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
the last known photo of the suspect. keep your doors locked and call 911 immediately if you see him. DO NOT APPROACH.
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
three presidential terms of "lesser of two evils" politics has cooked our fuckin brains man, we're so desperate and used to surrender. we've honestly forgotten that politicians are supposed to appeal to voters and take risks for what's right. we don't hold them to any standards, not even winning
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
if they only seem trustworthy from the "well if i had to choose SOMEONE to support..." angle, they'll lose elections whether we cover for their cruelty or not. like kamala.
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
whoever proves they're willing to fight for us. politicians are supposed to work to earn voters' approval; voters should not work to pretend there's a worthy politician. that's how we lost.
December 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
do these people get that politicians get as shitty as they are because everyone clamors to make excuses for them whenever they do something wrong, everyone insists we have to support them anyway no matter what? it isn't wrong to have harsh standards for our leaders, it's necessary.
December 5, 2025 at 1:47 AM
god, his face is always shorter than i remember. it's like a fourth of the height of his head
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
like they genuinely think this is just a kinda bad republican term that's still normal, and doesn't require any adapting or anything on their part. i doubt that many of them even get that trump will do the best he possibly can to rig the presidential elections, and probably the midterm too.
December 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
you know how if your life gets upended, like losing your job at a bad time, illness, divorce, etc... you know you have to lock the fuck in, because you get that if you don't, BAD shit will happen that you'll have even less power to fix than you did to prevent?

well, that's not how democrats think.
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
even if it's incompetence, they deserve as much ruthlessness as a saboteur when they fail us. if no one does their job properly, normal people doing nothing wrong have to endure a lot MORE ruthlessness, and unlike these people, they won't survive it!
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
even if it's incompetence, they deserve as much ruthlessness as a saboteur when they fail us. if no one does their job properly, normal people doing nothing wrong have to endure a lot MORE ruthlessness, and unlike these people, they won't survive it!
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
hakeem jeffries, chuck schumer, and any other do-nothing, both-sides vichy should be treated as an intentional saboteur. because whether it's incompetence or malice, we need them out of the chair YESTERDAY.
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
and the praise is also just totally fucking wrong. border security is easy if you don't give a shit about treating anyone humanely. he doesn't deserve praise for being so ruthless that it doesn't even matter how much of a moron he is.
December 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
they think making their criticism Nuanced makes them smart and mature, but someone smart would know the praise validates fascist talking points, and someone mature would know "giving credit where it's due" to a fascist is dangerous and pointless
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
take this seriously or get the fuck out of the chair. piece of shit.
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
how many civil liberties do we have to lose before they stop pairing criticism of the fascists with praise of the fascists
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
by moderates i mean moderate politicians, btw. and whether they're a politician or not, it could also be transphobia or lacking the empathy to think beyond the right's "fairness" argument. either way, they're being shitty, and accommodating that is awful in the long-term
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
it's like how when trump makes up a total lie like abrego garcia being a terrorist, that effortlessly makes the "bipartisan" stance "well maybe he is a terrorist, it's divisive whether he is". if the opponent's argument is too bullshit, it's dangerous to give it any legitimacy at all
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
it's dangerous to appease moderates, too. they'd love to push this shit out of the way and make it so trans rights aren't a mainstream left issue anymore. when they agree with the right on this, it's a mixture of trying to lower our standards, courting the center-right, and looking mature/nuanced
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
like it's natural to think "well you can't have it actually be like mario, you gotta draw the line somewhere for a story to work", but idk, those games did just fine having a story while still being very mario
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM