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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Right, well you keep guaranteeing your vote for Democrats every year and attacking anyone that criticizes them for being ineffective and see how much that gets you, since their current platform and every election leading up to this one hasn't been enough to prove that they don't really care that much about defending progressive policy and will throw both it and their voters under the bus if they think it will help them tap into the republican base instead. Continue directing your ire at your fellow voters instead of using it to hold your elected representative's feet to the fire. That definitely seems like a sound plan and totally isn't more of what got us here in the first place 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s a nice straw man you’ve erected and if I did any of those things you might have some kind of point.

I didn’t attack anyone, I pointed out that this alternative plan is unlikely to bring about any substantive change either.

So you keep telling people to sit at home and I’ll wait for the glorious revolution, maybe if you shout down people and tell them to read more theory that’ll help. The American people are super into reading political theory.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lmao I've never told anyone to read theory or to sit at home but go off I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought we were just casting aspersions for fun 🤣

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, so you're just trolling. Got it 👍