slowly radicalizing me and I don't like it

:sicko-blur:

Can't wait for all my leftist friends that I managed to convince electoralism works rubberband back into tankies bc moderates are massive bitches

:sicko-beaming:

this is literally half my friend group rn and I'm running out of counters

:sicko-crowd:

  • rubpoll [she/her]
    ·
    3 years ago

    https://imgur.com/jfygOxz

    Two Democrats and fifty Republicans in the Senate are blocking the things you want and you're wasting your energy being mad at the Democrats? If the two decades since Gore lost to Bush didn't teach you to focus your fire on Republicans, nothing will.

    Congratulations, you hit on exactly the talking point to convince me to turn back from my cynical ways. I've been mostly paying attention to politics since watching tanks roll through Moscow on the news in the early nineties and I've never heard such a refreshing argument! I have watched the Dem party flail ineffectually for decades and now chumps like you and other centrists demand my vote even though the only major accomplishments they've had in 40 years is a watered down healthcare reform. The courts are stacked with young conservatives, LGBTQ right may start coming under fire, abortion may soon be effectively illegal in most of the country, and democracy is actually under attack with NO FUCKING HOPE for federal reform because of two senators and the coward hiding behind them are more invested in archaic senatorial rules then insuring everyone can vote. But hey maybe in another 40 years I can look forward to a means tested "public option". Or I can say fuck you, fuck the party, I'm done. Shove your sanctimonious self-righteous BS in the face of someone who hasn't been hearing it for 40 years, and telling their friends the same thing.

    Oh fuck yes

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      R/NEOLIBERAL BECOME TANKIES CHALLENGE (MORE POSSIBLE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT) :tankie:

      • LeninsRage [he/him]
        ·
        3 years ago

        The vast majority of denizens on that sub are confused, ideologically incoherent people who can't decide if they're neoliberals or New Dealers with the serial numbers filed off at any given moment

      • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
        ·
        3 years ago

        Honestly, we don't want these people and they can go whinge and cry with their friends in Langley. You reap what you sow, neoliberal turds don't get to repent.

        • Kestrel [comrade/them]
          ·
          3 years ago

          On the contrary - we want anyone and everyone. No matter what your past politics. Leftists are unbelievably, unfathomably outnumbered. There's no purity test nor should there be.

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
            ·
            3 years ago

            The purity test is that western chauvinism gets you a ride on Elon's rocket. If you love colonizing so much, why don't you colonize Mars? :garf-troll:

    • BelovedOldFriend [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Also:

      Two Democrats and fifty Republicans in the Senate are blocking the things you want and you’re wasting your energy being mad at the Democrats?

      Uhhh, yes? Because I know what the fucking GOP is and what it stands for and I know that they just plain oppose anything that I would regard as good. So it's a literal waste of time and energy to get mad, in this context, at Republicans.