• edible_funk@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    None of that addresses my point that none of you fuckin people vote in the fuckin primaries. If cons can tea party the republicans into fuckin nazis, goddamn leftists can tea party the dems into something halfway socialist, BUT THEY DON’T FUCKING VOTE IN PRIMARIES.

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      1 hour ago

      Leftists do vote in the primaries. They vote more then centrists do. That’s not in doubt. The question is how we are supposed to handle the traitors. What do you do with snakes that hide their colors during the primary, but then betray the base during the general? You could say, “just vote for the traitor now, and vote them out next primary,” but that’s tone-deaf advice. First it rewards traitors. Second, when the next election comes around, suddenly the same exact people telling you “wait til the next primary” change their tune to “we can’t give up an incumbent seat in Ohio, this primary challenge is irresponsible!”

      For liberals, there simply is never a proper time to punish libshit dems that betray their voters.

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        25 minutes ago

        I really hope the republicans are paying you for all the work you’re doing for them. Fuck off with your out of touch bullshit. If progressives voted in primaries we’d have a progressive Dem party but you don’t engage in good faith so fuck off woody.

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      8 hours ago

      I mean, I agree, but there’s big astro turf money in tea partying repubs into Nazis where the opposite is true for the left.