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Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social |
The crux of this is that these people feel sincerely entitled to a president who fits their personal preferences, rather than just trying to get the least fucked-up and harmful option in a busted system where bad interests have lots of power
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Daniel Roberts
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All you need to know about pundits is that Bob Shrum, who went 0 for 7 as I recall in Presidential campaigns, ultimately became a pundit. Failure is not a barrier to success, it’s a fucking prerequisite. I think that’s why people were briefly excited about 538, until it was exposed as just as phony.
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@horizontalhold.bsky.social
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Or just hear me out the campaign was stupid enough to think they could appease them by dog-whistling one term and then just wowing them into adoration. Screw the press but Biden coddled them
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@trashpandamario.bsky.social
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I don't think it's much vanity to think that one can pick someone who can speak in complete sentences, and that person may have a better chance at beating Trump.
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Jesse Baer
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One of my main takeaways from the debate is that anyone can beat Trump if they can make a halfway case against him. These delusional people think they can have their dream candidate and they're gonna get us all killed.
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Public Universal Ally
@returnofmccarthy.bsky.social
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I feel entitled to exist without being hounded and enslaved by the capitalist class and their enforcers. They feel differently. There's more of us than them, and you don't need a majority on board to start making things better, by making things worse for a select few.
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Matty
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“Refusing to vote for then President arming a genocide of 40k and counting” is now a “personal preference” I guess. The vast majority of our votes are captive (like mine). It literally does not matter, so I can take my stand.
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Lori J
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Absolutely!!
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Firk
@theflyingfirk.bsky.social
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I feel entitled to be heard and represented by whoever earns my vote. Both sides have made clear they do not intend on doing that. Big ask for in a democracy, I know.
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Mark Shatraw
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I wonder how much of this is just them not letting Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal go. Or Biden not sitting for an interview with the Times. "He doesn't want to listen to us? We'll get somebody who does"
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Warhammerchick
@celticdragon1.bsky.social
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Like the old Mary Sue unsolicited Star Trek novel manuscripts but with actual dire real world consequences
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Dextrosity
@dextrosity.bsky.social
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To be fair, lots of lefties think that way, too.
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@napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social
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Those people are idiots
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@crimsondynamo4.bsky.social
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You read this kind of hypothetical nonsense about contested conventions, and you wonder why so many people think booking the fate of our country the same way that WCW was booked in 2000 was a good idea.
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Real American Hombre
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This is what's so infuriating to POC and (pragmatic) progressives - FOR DECADES we've been told to "Vote for the Dem we push on you OR ELSE!" Now the nominee is someone these fuckers are uncomfortable with and they are losing their absolute shit. They can't handle being the 2nd class Dem.
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