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Democrats. We got swift boated. We got Genocide Joed. We got Al Frankened. Now we are getting Platnered. This is the awesome power of the 24/7 mainstream media influence machine.
Don't take the bait. Nothing matters more than winning the Senate this fall.
Aral Balkan
@mastodonmigration Slight correction: I think it was the Palestinians that got Genocide Joed, not you.
The people actually suffering a live-streamed genocide because of the successive complicity of US administrations throughout the years are the victims here, not the people who are arming and funding the genocide.
Katrina Katrinka :donor:
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Everything important still matters.
And even winning the Senate means nothing when they focus on keeping the status quo.
Ben Royce V͎O͎T͎E͎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ ⁼ ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ
@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration
"Everything important still matters"
on the contrary, the point of a manipulation is its effect
if the effect is to get a #GOP win, the method is employed
so we can play perfectionist games about #Platner, which can easily be deployed as a #psyop because so many people are clueless perfectionists, or we can disengage and not vote and let the GOP win... people that make Platner's sins look like amateur hour
that's the point of the contrived controversy
Katrina Katrinka :donor:
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In all but the swift boats, the core issue was things the guy actually did.
I'm not in Maine, but I do share the frustration of center right v. far right general elections because DNC fights progressives harder than fascists.
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Absolutely, but nothing matters if we don't take control of the Senate.
Edit: Again, not a defense of what those guys did, but a plea to focus on the big picture. That is what they are doing running these campaigns. They know that this is all about control of the Senate and they are terrified. We can not fall into this trap.
Katrina Katrinka :donor:
@mastodonmigration @benroyce
I blame Harris for that. She killed the turnout with her choices.
Ben Royce V͎O͎T͎E͎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ ⁼ ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ
@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration
i blame nonvoters
the #DNC comes out against #Mamdani in the #primaries, people #vote anyways
the #DNC comes out against Mamdani in the general, people vote anyways
that's how you do it
we can do that all across the #USA
who fucking cares about milquetoast dems
ah, but you do
because with that red herring, you can successfully suppress the vote and help the #GOP win by making it seem like nonvoters are virtuous
they are manipulated pieces of shit
Katrina Katrinka :donor:
@benroyce @mastodonmigration
I'm directly responding to "serving #Israel's #genocide by helping the #GOP win".
GOP doesn't have to win to serve Israel.
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A lot more Palestinians are dead right now because of this perspective. Hate to say it in such stark terms, but it is true. The people you are professing to support with this argument are much worse off under this administration than they ever would have been under a Democratic administration. Again, no good choices, only less bad ones, and in this case, a lot more dead people.
Ben Royce V͎O͎T͎E͎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ ⁼ ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ
@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration
you know what also causes low turn #vote out?
"everything sucks and then you die, waah" #psyop from fake #leftists
serving #Israel's #genocide by helping the #GOP win
it may seem unfair of me to accuse you of this
but imagine if you did this hard working effort to justify helplessness and pessimism, and you didn't even realize the only effect of your mindless #cynicism bullshit
that would be the more insulting accusation
Katrina Katrinka :donor:
@benroyce @mastodonmigration
That'd be a better argument if Biden and Harris hadn't funded the genocide.
Ben Royce V͎O͎T͎E͎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ ⁼ ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ
@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration
i don't follow
"i see your accusation but allow me to change the topic to deflect criticism"
Biden and Harris sucked, in many ways
do you know what also sucks?
#Likud #trollfarm working over #toxicIdealism and mindless #cynicism to suppress #left #vote turnout, for a #GOP win, so #Israel's #genocide can proceed full steam ahead
i. see. you.
Ben Royce V͎O͎T͎E͎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ ⁼ ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ
@katrinakatrinka @mastodonmigration
#Platner has consistently campaigned on a platform of halting #US military funding to #Israel
now you understand the real purpose behind goosing #perfectionism on the #left to suppress #leftist turnout in the #vote
it is artificially manufactured noise for a #psyop
show me someone upset at Platner's sins, moved to not vote, resulting in a GOP win and all the green lights for Israel to #genocide more, and i'll show you a patsy manipulated by #Likud #trolls
Katrina Katrinka :donor:
@benroyce @mastodonmigration
And when/if Platter is elected and nothing changes, oh well. It's whatever.
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That is not the choice. It would be great if it were. But the choice you have is between GOP and Democratic control of the Senate.
That's the hard reality of politics. We mostly don't get to make good choices, just less bad ones, and we have seen how the more bad ones work our. We are living that nightmare.
Katrina Katrinka :donor:
@mastodonmigration @benroyce
That's what causes the low turnout and losses. The Dem unwillingness to be an opposition party.
Katrina Katrinka :donor:
@benroyce @mastodonmigration
"We" aren't in Maine. At least I'm not.
The Democrats have a problem with the left, which is how they end up with these problematic candidates they then insist people vote for anyway because the GOP is worse.
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