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grg @grgd.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:43 UTC

Deciding on a new Dem presidential nominee based on who can say "Hawk tuah the polls" most convincingly

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:53 UTC

inshallah

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:30 UTC

“There must always be a Democrat in the White House” might as well be the party’s motto, too.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:23 UTC

Right, the idea that trans folk who don’t consider a second Biden term to be their salvation are “privileged” or are engaging in “purity politics” requires someone to not notice how the first Biden term went — and to believe Democrats won’t sell out trans people if they think it’ll “win the center”

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:16 UTC

“Elections have consequences” — sure But the trouble is the Democrats sell you their answer of “either we win every election forever, or it’s a dystopia, and if we lose an election, it’s your fault” Even if this were true, their answer comes at the expense of doing any work to make it *not* true.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:12 UTC

Vote or don’t vote, but do you really think the GOP would react passively to 6-3 Supreme Court majorities declaring universal healthcare a Constitutional right or homelessness cruel and usual punishment or a lack of abortion-on-demand (at no cost) a violation of the 14th Amendment?

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:07 UTC

Vote or don’t vote, but if you think Republicans would be saying, “The most important thing you can do is vote” if they knew they could get 10 million more votes than Democrats and still lose the election, you haven’t been paying attention at all.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:05 UTC

Project 2025 is real, and concerning. The authoritarian powers SCOTUS grants GOP administrations is real and scary. But you can’t fix it by “voting harder” because the Democrats exist to gain electoral power in the current system, not fundamentally alter it to benefit most people.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:03 UTC

The problem with the USA is that the political system and society are fundamentally set up to privilege oligarchs and landed gentry at the expense of everyone else, and that feels “broken” to the vast majority of us who lack wealth, but that’s exactly what the system is set up to do.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:03 UTC

The problem with the USA is not that “Democrats were only presidents for 12 of the last 16 years instead of 16 of the last 16 years.” When people say that everything would be different and better if only Clinton had won in 2016 (and appointed more judges), this is what they are saying.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:01 UTC

“Jade Helm” in 2015 was a conspiracy based on nothing. Can you imagine the sort of mass and elite insurrection that Republicans would have engaged in with a Democratic administration — a CLINTON administration! — trying to push Covid mitigation efforts and a vaccine?

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:01 UTC

More to the point, imagine what would have happened in 2020 when Covid, or something like it, hit. How would a Republican Congress, GOP state and local politicians, and likely a still 4-4 or 4-3 Supreme Court have responded to Clinton pushing executive federal action to curtail a deadly pandemic?

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 05:00 UTC

Would there have been a Democratic House wave in 2018 bringing in a majority with people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Or would the Bernie Sanders elements of the party have been even *weaker* since neoliberal normalcy would have been seen as the proper antidote to authoritarian populism?

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:58 UTC

Republicans would have done everything they could to sabotage and diminish a President Clinton. Do you think the mainstream media would have correctly highlighted that, let alone Fox News, Sinclair News stations, and outlets even further to the right?

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:56 UTC

The Republican majority Senate wouldn’t have replaced the deceased Antonio Scalia’s vacant seat at all. Ruth Bader Ginsberg might have stepped down earlier or, knowing this, tried to hold on and died anyway. But Anthony Kennedy definitely wouldn’t have stepped down strategically when he did.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:56 UTC

Donald Trump would have claimed the election was stolen and stoked hatred. You can easily see how he would have become even more popular over the next four years, dedicating himself to media attention and criticism, having to deliver no results of his own. Why would the GOP move away from him?

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:53 UTC

This is nonsense. If Hillary Clinton won the presidency in 2016, all subsequent would not have unfolded otherwise unchanged but more liberal. People *react* to new things, and reactionaries don’t take “no” for an answer. They call the authority illegitimate and find a new one they control instead.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 04:49 UTC

a frustrating thing about liberal and even left-liberal diagnoses of the present moment is that they think but had a few thousand more people in select states voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, the reactionary cause would be fatally stymied abortion would be safe, the Supreme Court progressive, etc

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