@i_slamson @ryangrim You guys elected AOC in NYC, lost every remotely competitive race for 7 years (except Fetterman's!), and then won a NYC mayors race by ~.5%.
You haven't even technically won the Maine primary yet
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@ryangrim Centrist Third Way types watching their grip on the party get pried loose by political hardball must be experiencing what leftists did watching Newt Gingrich turn Rules for Radicals into a playbook for the right
"Buh buh but that's our thing!"
Finders keepers, losers weepers
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@Zoomer_Doomer_ Being a Democrat has to be so embarrassing. Like the only political party where they beg their voters to not vote for their own candidates, and the voters are trying to convince the party that having a majority is in fact good. Controlled oppo
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@airbodywrong @neeratanden @TheMaineWonk Accusing ppl of being drunk, in the defense of Graham Platner, is a real choice
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@dreamergirl2727 Breaks the ice w a pretty lady
Leaves her with the impression that he (probably) wasn't only interested in sex.
It *absolutely* worked.
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we talked again later with a group of friends & when he was asked his name, he said “who wants to know?” really cool guy, was (probably) not trying to sleep with me, had a great time
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a guy at the bar came up to me to say “you’re really pretty…….. that’s all i got” & after he left a nearby guy said “just wondering, did that work?”
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@MakeUSAVAT @CentristMadness We know. She knows. Her first response to the lawsuit = doing a sexy photoshoot w the papers she was served
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You know, there are also working class women who maybe don't want their drunken abusive ex to be a senator.
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@DuoDab Sorry, they have all been so inconsequential and trivial that I lost count lol 😅
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So just so we are clear, we should vote blue no matter who for the woman who enabled a genocide?
But not for the guy with a no no tattoo?
OS2NOX@OS2NOX
oh my god
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@Bacchuslaureat @fullslack_ And everybody remember all those wars started by Obama and Hillary between 2009-2013
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@DuoDab @fullslack_ “American mercenary companies that do war crimes are bad, but the people directly responsible for ordering those wars and hiring those mercenaries are good” is a take I guess
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Here’s Contrapoints not seeing any obvious red flags lmao
Natalie Wynn@ContraPoints
I feel like this whole Platner situation could’ve been avoided if a bunch of upper middle class leftists hadn’t seen the most obvious red flags imaginable and thought, “that’s just what rough, salty, Ohio Waffle House type working class people are like”
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@DuoDab @fullslack_ So working for a defense contractor is bad, but being the secretary of state and employing these contractors is fine?
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@TGreenwood46327 @on_europe @fullslack_ He's not some farm boy who had no other way to pay to college. He's a rich private school kid who enjoyed war so much he joined Blackwater after leaving the military.
Like I said, none of the typical progressive pearl clutching works here
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@DuoDab @on_europe @fullslack_ did you unironically just allocate the blame for war crimes to the young men coaxed into the war machine with million dollar marketing campaigns and patriotic indoctrination... opposed to the middle aged career politicians who orchestrate the whole thing?
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@NS9298891880566 @Kittypoo997 @DJBranham @ExMiserian597 "regardless of the scandals" k I'll keep this bookmarked for the next 5 months
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@DuoDab @Kittypoo997 @DJBranham @ExMiserian597 There are two realistic options.
Ride with platner and have a better chance of winning, regardless of the scandals.
Remove platner with Mills or whoever that third guy was and lose. Mills has the recognition, but people hate her. The other guy has no name recognition.
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Democrats will say we have a young men's problem and then send this guy out canvassing
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willing to bet this guy works remotely from home
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein
Maine voter asked about Platner: "If we want folks that are representing us from the working class, they're not necessarily going to have a groomed and perfect political record"
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@NS9298891880566 @Kittypoo997 @DJBranham @ExMiserian597 Yea no shit. It's the part where Platner has 100x more than every other Democratic candidate.
The primary is in three days and he can be removed from the ballot until July 14th, so
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@DuoDab @Kittypoo997 @DJBranham @ExMiserian597 Every candidate has liabilities. But he's the only one with name recognition that can win, so Democrats are stuck with him. And you need to just get over it.
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@NS9298891880566 @Kittypoo997 @DJBranham @ExMiserian597 yea "weakness" is simply ignoring the liabilities of a working class cosplayer just bc Bernie & his grifter circus told you to
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@DuoDab @Kittypoo997 @DJBranham @ExMiserian597 Bill Clinton did far worse than Platner has even been accused of and Democrats still bring him out him out every election season to campaign.
Stop being weak.
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@NS9298891880566 @Kittypoo997 @DJBranham @ExMiserian597 yea and most people just found out Dems' chances of retaking the senate might hinge on a nazi-tattooed habitual liar who didn't delete his hook up app profiles
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@DuoDab @Kittypoo997 @DJBranham @ExMiserian597 People have lives. Responsibilities. Gas is expensive. Groceries are expensive. Housing is expensive. Nobody is paying attention to a symbol on a hat from a movie from 40 years ago. If you knew that without anyone pointing it out to you, you are a loser. Move on with your life.
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@DuoDab @Kittypoo997 @DJBranham @ExMiserian597 You didn't even know the tattoos connotation before other people told you about it. Just stop. Literal world war II buffs have admitted they didn't know the tattoos connotation.
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@on_europe @fullslack_ yea the ole WaR cRiMiNaL schtick doesn't work when you're defending a guy who likely committed actual literal war crimes with his bare hands
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@DuoDab @fullslack_ Correct, the latter has done far worse over their lifetime and is still a liberal darling.
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@NickyFrank30 if this election cycle doesn't start a long overdue convo about Bernie's 'movement' then literally nothing will
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I think Platner will probably lose because worse things will come out about him so I’m just resigned to this and looking at the silver lining of “everyone involved in this will never work in politics again after”
Natalie Wynn@ContraPoints
@KyleKulinski that’s true, & in fairness even here in the axe grindosphere Platner has been cheerled relentlessly by a large contingent of bro-y libs. I hope my instincts are wrong, but I think it will turn out to be embarrassing to have caped this hard for the American answer to Russel Brand
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