you're always putting yourself down crystal smh stop it with the negative self talk and get to the positive self fuck

My absolute favorite person of the day was a young woman who passed by. I offered her a free tomato. She said “no thanks,” then turns and says “hey Patrick Willems” and keeps on walking like this was the most normal thing that has ever happened to her.

One dude asked if he could juggle tomatoes. We said sure. He didn’t even keep them.

i bet it was Communism Will Win, she always struck me as a potential selfcest enjoyer

you also def have to take into account the cultural aspects, progressive democrats inherently do better outside of the South which is another point for Aftyn Behn. she only won the primary in the first place because of moderate infighting (this is why the DNC is suddenly cool with RCV, by the way)

behn is obviously left of peters but van epps is obviously right of james and also TN-07 is a very different place from michigan. nonetheless, anyone claiming that behn's performance was an example of a progressive underperforming is fundamentally unserious

side note the fucking insistence of these "statistics" people that blue dog moderation (which actually does overperform) is the same exact thing as, like, Slotkin and Spanberger (objectively extremely mediocre candidates) is deeply telling of what their actual priorities are (leftbashing)

so either the GOP is so cooked in 2026 that it's gonna make 2018 look like a blue ripple by comparison OR somebody will eventually have to admit that democrats that don't agree with the GOP on every issue can actually still win elections. you have to make it make sense somehow.

I'm just trying to talk about how there's a difference between bigotry because of ignorance and bigotry because of malice and a lot of people want you to intentionally conflate the two and become demoralized about the whole thing

Prepared for the worst people on this hellsite to misinterpret this as me shitting on Harris and accuse me of every horrible thing one can think of

+ were willing to throw Black people under the bus (and every marginalized group of course) to get "a good economy", not because of a genuine belief in social conservatism but instead because of a lack of understanding of the extent of racism in our society since our schools said MLK solved it all

Which is not to say that misogynoir didn't affect her or that Harris actually had worse economic policy than Trump (I'm not stupid enough to believe either of those). I'm saying that many people were better off financially in '19 than in '23, and they didn't think about it hard enough to blame Trump

Anyone who disputes the assertion that 2024 was mostly about the economy probably just didn't see the worst of it. More "middle-class" (to the extent such a thing exists) voters are better believers in Bidenomics and therefore often claim Harris lost because of social issues (or outright misogynoir)