REgon [they/them]

Bernie sanders was a compromise and a terrible one at that lol. Unlike blue MAGA we don’t engage in cults of personality, but are actually capable of critiquing our political leaders. Bernie supports genocide and sucks shit, why would I care what he thinks?
It’s the same shit every time with you people

We’ve got a very serious person over here

Yes what’s serious is definitely putting your faith in a system with two options and if you don’t vote for the one then the other one wins and the system is destroyed (half the population doesn’t vote, the half that does votes for the destruction option). Sometimes even if you vote for the one the other gets to win because we don’t really care about votes. BTW we’ve been doing this song and dance about “keeping [villain of the week] out of the white house!” since the 70’s. Ask yourself this: If Trump truly was a threat to democracy, why have the dems done absolutely fuck all? Why are they completely unwilling to budge on any of their far-right genocidal policies? If Trump is truly this existential threat, why has he been allowed to exist for four years? Why did they try to run Biden, a man with obvious dementia, if Trump was truly this unique evil that will tear America apart? Doesn’t seem like the dems are very serious.

What’s super duper serious is going to argue with people who won’t vote for genocide that they should vote for genocide. The most serious people in the room do this thing where they for some reason decide to focus on third party voters (who these serious people also say is of such an insignificant size that they do not matter at all) instead of going outside and knocking on doors talking to the more than 50% that doesn’t vote
Online arguments are totally the sign of being a Serious Person ™

Oh boy Here I go having to repeat the same points once again like seriously I could set my watch to you guys
Why don’t you just go talk to the 50% of people who don’t vote instead of being mad at third party voters (who you yourselves always say are so few, they don’t matter

Incredible I can just repost this comment more or less word for word you people truly are NPC’s.

This is so naive I’m gonna have to assume you’re a literal child.

So actually the way voting works is if you vote for a candidate then they get your vote and if you vote for another candidate, then that candidate gets your vote and if you vote for a third candidate, then that candidate gets your vote and if you don’t vote for any candidate then no candidate gets your vote.
Oh boy politics sure are complicated, huh? The only way your idea of ‘how voting works’ would in any way approach rationality, would be if you assumed that the democrats were somehow owed our votes. That doesn’t really make sense. The way it actually works is that a party - or a candidate - courts voters by appealing to their interests and presenting themselves as a reliable steward for advancing those interests. If a candidate or a party fails in this, then they lose. In other words: If you want people to vote for you, listen to what they want you to do and then do that. Kamala Harris’ campaign is a great example of what happens when you don’t do that.

We don’t count the amount of not-votes a candidate gets, only the votes. But if it makes you feel any better we can say I’m not voting for Trump 1 million times and I’ll only be not voting for Harris 100.000 times. We can even say I’m not voting for him in swing states! Hope that clears your heart flutters just a little so you can cool your head and let go of those no-no words.

Or Trump will eradicate Palestine.

Okay sweetie, so there’s actually a genocide going on right now. You probably don’t follow the news, but palestinians are being put in concentration camps and mass graves. And Harris has said she will increase support! I don’t even know how it can get worse over there, but she has promised she’s gonna let it get worse.
Do you know what a genocide is? Probably not, because if you did you wouldn’t be running your mouth saying wacky stuff like your doing. The end point of genocide is extermination. The end result is Palestine being eradicated.
I know this can all be terribly abstract, so I’ll try to help you understand what is going on. Now sweetie this will be a bit scary and it does contain some no-no words and I’m sorry about that, but I do feel it’s necessary to make you understand. Still I don’t want to shock you or traumatize you, so I’m gonna put it behind

and when you feel comfortable and safe, then you can just click it and read it. Maybe have a juice brick next to you so you can have a sippy if you get scared.

But from my perspective it’s due to not using our voices

Oh boy you sure are the first person to come with that analysis. You know liberal “democracies” are actually incredibly understudied, especially on the left. There’s barely any text on the faults of electorialism, so I’m super glad to see your little theory you brewed up all on your own there. Proud of you buddy. If you wanna expand your horizons a bit, then here’s a little bit of literature. Don’t get scared by the fact there’s no pictures! I know you can do it!

• The state and revolution
• Bourgeois And Proletarian Democracy
• Proletarian Dictatorship Vs Bourgeois “Democracy” (this one was even written by americans just like you! So it’s not foreign or super scary even)
• What is to be done

Now you can probably figure out since I linked you a few texts that I’m being a bit facetious. And you got me. Good on you again! Maybe you can use that big brain of yours and think yourself some humility, it would do you some good. Maybe assume that the bare-bones drivel (sorry buddy, but it’s really not very good) you’re serving us as some unique insight, isn’t really novel or unknown to us. We all exist in this society, we all see the same takes on the frontpage of reddit, we just… You know, think a little about it. We’re a little curious over here. A curious little group of people that likes to just look a teeny tiny bit deeper instead of just incorporating whatever the TV told us that morning. Maybe you should consider doing the same yourself.

You have to compromise and move things slowly forwards.

Aw buddy, did you discover incrementalism? I remember when I did too, it sounded real swell. Sadly it doesn’t really work, we’ve been hearing that stuff since the 1970’s. Really we heard it before that too. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you that, I know it sucks to learn you’re not the brightest bulb in the room. Hopefully this can be a learning experience for you!