Notices by RebelGeek99 (rebelgeek99@mastodon.social), page 2

@mook jeebus, I'm on a blocklist on here for saying as much lol

yeah no, they're done, they just don't know it yet. like those ghosts in "The Others" they'll still make some noises, move the furniture around, but they've lost the plot entirely.

@mook agreed. At the least electoral Dems. State legislatures tend to be more progressive, generally, but there's not much correlation there.

COIN? Corporate Owned Interest Networks ? Haven't heard that one before

@mook oh absolutely, then. Electoral Dems are 100% staged opposition. It's conspicuous how even AOC (and I was a big fan at one point) only ever finds her voice when the party is in the minority. Bernie isn't even a Dem anymore, but they still love to trot him out as the progressive wing of the party. The only role of progressives in that party is to sequester votes and then squash their voices.

@mook even more insidious, anyone who calls them out on the engineered complicitness is demonized as a Trumper, or "unserious" (and often put on a blocklist). I imagine these aren't paid operatives and just fearful desperate people lashing out, but it's splitting hairs at this point. Out of fucks. I try to focus on local/community level stuff where our voices still matter a bit.

@mook Word. As much as I never wanted a first term let alone a second term of this orange skinned conman in the WH, we have no choice but to just watch it play out at this point. Bernie isn't starting a third party and Greens (whose essential 2016 platform Dems campaigned on and overwhelmingly won with in 2020) have been dismissed as gullible Russian assets. It's looking more and more like everything will come crashing down, Constitution and all, before anything can fundamentally change.

@mook I felt Stein had some value simply keeping popular policies in discussion, one of the very few public figures striking at the corporate backed duocracy, but yeah... In the last eight years only ONE Green (Jason Call, WA-2) even tried to get into Congress. Learning that Sinema was also a Green in the distant past was disheartening, too. COVID was/is one of my big issues, as it remains intersectional with labor, health equity, and education, but Greens didn't even rally around that. Ugh.

The #OvertonWindow has shifted so far right in this country, Attila the Hun would have been a leftist.

@AnarchoNinaWrites wait a minute... Aren't we still being tone policed by those same people over not celebrating the death of a tyrant?

Based #shitliblogic

The Economy ™️

#TheEconomy

@phaedral @AnarchoNinaWrites I pretty much tuned them out in 2012 after the ACA was compromised on, the crooks of Wall Street had been absolved of ruining millions of people's lives, and Obama's immaculate PR campaign gave it all a thin veneer of IDpol to make it palatable. As the gentler kinder looking face of the duocracy, obsessed with means testing and openly seeking the bipartisan approval of fascists, I've been calling them the Vichy Dems for a few years now.

@AnarchoNinaWrites already there's cries to shut up and put up, fall in line, and vote harder in 2028. They'll never change, it's simply not in that party's nature. You can bet the new DNC chair they're voting in will be even more sympathetic to the causes of the far right, in actions if not rhetoric.

@br00t4c I hope he called him a sick fuck on air. That should just be reflexive for anyone with a soul.

Reddit Centrist Pundit: People are sick of the Dems unhinged' far left authoritarian regime!!

Me: like what?

RCP: <insert typical conservative strawman argument>

Me: well , maybe a real authoritarian far left regime is actually what you need.

RCP: once they start mandating forced bisexual experimentation, maybe you'll get fucked 🤷🏻♂️

#uspol

@AnarchoNinaWrites @arrrg yup. Sad to see how many more liberal-Dem leaning people would rather just not vote than to vote for a third-party candidate.

Maybe the Dem "voter outreach" led them to stay home and not vote for fear of being accused of voting for a Russian plant... Even though everything on Greens 2024 platform was basically Dems 2020 platform which in turn was a rehash of Greens 2016 platform (which itself was similar to Bernie's, before the DNC squashed him).

@arrrg @AnarchoNinaWrites and none of the 2016 math accounts for the Gary Johnson (L) who earned 2-3x as many votes as Stein in key swing states-- votes which (by shitlib logic) were "owed" to Trump instead, meaning HRC would have lost by an even larger margin than purported.

@arrrg @AnarchoNinaWrites it will always be Jill Stein's fault. Always.

Angry Dems in 2020: Those lazy 33% registered non-voters better start paying attention!!

2024 voters: Okay, so facilitating genocide, eugenics as public health, doubling down on fracking, and mercilessly beating down student and climate protestors? Pay attention to those?

Angry Dems in 2024: No not like that

@AnarchoNinaWrites NPR be like, "But is the candidate's platform compatible with Nazi ideology, or do they need to shift their messaging farther to the right to win voters?"

RFK Jr, the anti-vax muscle bunny from the Dem primary, is getting more votes than Jill Stein in at least a few critical swing states... and he isn't even running anymore lol