• alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    Your skirting of my question and the demonstrably untrue claims you’ve made aside, yeah of course there are Dems that absolutely need to GTFO. Bad faith content like this is what keeps people from bothering to vote those people out.

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      I have to concede that 99% Hitler is better than 100% Hitler in the short term, that much is true, but if 99% Hitler wins then 100% Hitler can become 110% Hitler. Then 99% Hitler becomes 109% Hitler. That’s Blake’s Lesser Hitler Theory.

      We need to LOUDLY and unanimously reject “Vote Blue No Matter Who” narratives, otherwise there is no incentive for the Democrats to ever move towards progressivism.

      We also need to work on alternatives to electoralism broadly. I think the Black Panthers are a great example to follow.

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        Criminy, ‘vote blue’ doesn’t mean vote and then sit at home thinking your work is done. It means voting for the lesser evil and then continuing to leverage the whole of your might to making the system better. It means fight just as hard for justice, just do it while trying to pick a less evil bad guy to have to fight. You want a whole new system? Then fight for it, and vote blue while you’re at it because it’ll be easier to kick those idiots out than the outright fascists.

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        What is going on here? Can’t be an LLM because at least the LLMs responses are based somewhat on what they’re responding to. This reads more like a script. I’m getting flashbacks to 2015.

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          sounds botty as hell too, normal humans dont respond with that much " fake percentage pulled out of the behind" being thrown around.

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          …and you called me bad faith. My first instinct was to ignore your reply, I should’ve gone with that.

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            Which of your instincts was to read my reply before responding because I would have gone with that. I don’t see how anything you’ve said is relevant to anything I’ve said.

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              I was directly responding to the question you pointed out that I “skirted”

              You honestly think shit would be just as bad if a dem was in the Whitehouse?

              I can understand the confusion but you can just ask for clarification politely instead of calling me an LLM and saying I’m scripted :(

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            That’s around when reddit really started getting astroturfed by right wing and ‘leftist’ boys and r/conspiracy became r/thedonald and r/the Donald was all over the front page all day every day.

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          It’s someone who was indoctrinated in September / October 2024, was never deprogrammed, and has somehow navigated the interceding 15 months without reading anything?