Original Reyals
originalreyals.bsky.social
Original Reyals
@originalreyals.bsky.social
I assume you'll be cheering for joy if trump manages to subjugate my country? You sure seem happy about the disenfranchisement of the left in the US right now.
January 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Good luck under your new president. Hopefully the Dems can get their heads out of their asses at some point but I expect they are a lot more like you.
January 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The only other alternative I see is revolution, and the American populace seems uniquely unwilling to revolt against systemic injustice.
January 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We both agree the Republicans are evil.

The problem is that the democrats are doing a piss-poor job of convincing people that they are not also evil.

The lesser of two evils is still evil and some people won't vote for that.

For the solution to come from within it has to be fixing the democrats
January 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
How the fuck does dropping bombs on their family safeguard their wellbeing?
January 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I am sorry for this Rabbi. Sometimes, the impulse to post the visceral reaction is more powerful than the wisdom to read the whole thread first.

I will work on this.
January 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The 2024 strategy was to primary the left, and get Liz Cheney involved in an attempt to get swing republicans to vote. Last I saw approximately 10 million people voted for Biden in 2020 that chose not to vote thus time.

The winning strategy has to be to drop the centrist and get these votes back.
January 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Because the alternative is not acceptable to them.

Ultimately I highly doubt anyone will get a single trump 2024 voter to vote Dem in 2028. But getting the Dems to appeal to those they have excluded looks to me like it has to be the first step towards getting them elected in 2028.
January 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A lot of the red line voters I've seen are muslim or arab. The democratic party has spent the last year funding bombs to be dropped on the the homes of their families and loved ones.

If that's the Dems not wanting to kill them what does the Dems wanting to kill them look like?
January 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The left stayed home rather than vote for either of the two parties that wants to kill them.
January 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If the democrats want to win they need to move left. That is the answer.

There was no vote that would help the Palestinian people so the people for whom that is a red line stayed home.

Why are you telling me I'm the problem for pointing this out?
January 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
And yet you judge the left for not voting for a party like that?

The left stayed home this election precisely because Harris and the Biden administration were pro-genocide. There was nobody good to vote for so they did not vote. I don't agree with it but I get it
January 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Maga voted that way because many on the right don't care what happens to them as long as the people they hate are hurt more.
January 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Having a red line and being a single issue voter are two different things.

Would you vote for someone who's policy was everything in line with what you support except they also say they are going to kill you, your friends and your family?
January 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Having read the rest of the thread I now see the nuanced analysis I was expecting.

I just got thrown off by the horseshoe theory part up top because as an anarchist the centrists who say that are usually attacking me.

Your point about Bernie's inability to grasp intesectionality is a good one.
January 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Right, a Canadian who would have voted blue if he had a vote is "the problem" not the pro-genocide establishment democrats.

You must sleep really well at night knowing that you did everything you could to solve all the worlds problems by voting for your team once every four years.
January 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Explaining to centrists that they lost because of red-line leftists who won't vote for genocide isn't "
Using the situation to sway votes without any real benefit to the victims"

It is trying to spread awareness of the Dems biggest mistake this time in the hopes they'll get it right next time.
January 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Of course I am. The goal needs to be either revolution or small progress by political gain.

Please explain how trying to get the democrats to be against genocide is a bad thing.
January 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wait. Do you actually believe in horseshoe theory?

Just double checking before, because you always seemed to be reasonable, and "anarchists are the same as fascists" seems like a pretty big step away from your usual nuanced takes.
January 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Obviously fucking not.

My point which I have made multiple times to you is that if the Dems refuse to do better then the left won't vote for them.

My point is that the blame for losing this election should fall on Harris and her shifty pro-genocide campaign, not the left.
January 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
What does anti-genocide action look like to you?

Because for a lot of the people who have been protesting for years and fighting thus for years it looks a lot like the Dems have told them to fuck off and die.
January 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"US policy on Israel and Palestine isn't going to change depending on the party in power"

Makes it pretty clear that red-line anti-genocide voters have no reason to vote.
January 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Biden is responsible for every bomb he sent that got dropped on Gaza. Yet you try to push the blame onto Reagan.

Dems need to move left to have a chance, but seemingly would rather see Trump in power than someone like Bernie Sanders.
January 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Your decision to fight online leftists who could not bring themselves to vote for a member of an administration who actively provided the weapons for a genocidal war during a hot period of that war.

Trump is evil, but empowered by centrists. If Biden had stopped the bombs, Harris would have won.
January 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'd have voted blue if I had a vote in the US election. I'd have been disgusted eith myself but I'd have done it for harm reduction. Other people have genocide support as red line. Which is moral, valid and principled.
January 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM