Mattske For President

I could be President before the end of the year if you really want to know the truth.

@tksshawa @RoKhanna Maybe he's losing his mind and doesn't know what he's doing anymore.

Not even going to comment on the blatant double standard here. Putting that aside for now, what @RoKhanna is trying to do here is strategically inept. It charts a path that will satisfy no one and piss off everyone. This prevarication is exactly what people are tired of.

@WhickTv ...the...Platner class? What's that? Guys who get recruited to blow Bernie Sanders for a living or something

1) El-Sayed would be an easier candidate for Republicans to beat in the general election. 2) AIPAC isnt against *us*, they're against anti-Israel people. 3) More important perhaps than either, El-Sayed is a known liar who cozies up with terrorist and Russia supporters. He's not gonna work for the people of Michigan, he's gonna work for the Platner Class.

@AlwaysFlacko More like a queer with headlice.

Idk man. I just feel like Ro Khanna is very very out of his depth at this point. He doesn’t strike me as a particularly thoughtful or passionate legislator. He strikes me as a career backbencher who has wandered into some good political issues to exploit. And he’s a deer in headlights.

@BenjaminDictor "working people" is a non descript bullshit phrase.

If the establishment Democrats fought as hard for working people as they do against the progressive wing of the party, our lives would be a lot better.

@r0berto_mid_5 Zordy Mamlianni

people are gonna be talking about Zohran in 20 years the way old republicans talk about guilianni

@AntiNateSilver Neither AOC nor DSA are in any way shape or form remotely capable of dismantling empire.

what i can never fully wrap my head around re: this argument: as socialists in the imperial core, we are already deeply complicit in and responsible for empire’s violence why would it be uniquely disastrous to unite behind the effort most materially likely to dismantle empire?

@WajahatAli Ads don't decide races.

But you support AIPAC spending 50 million to decide the race, right?

@HelenBrosnan It's just evidence that nobody in American politics knows how to buy media effectively, and that advertising agencies in the election space have brainwashed people to think they are magicians who can make results appear out of thin air.

This should be revolting to anyone who gives a shit about our democracy.

I can't believe grown adults actually think this way, or at least perform and express that they do. Ads are not a bribe. Maybe kickbacks. But that's never what any of these Berniecrat types are talking about.

Ads are promotional media (paid or in-kind) that place content in front of people via print, outdoor, online, etc. in an interruptive or placement fashion. A $50M budget allows you to buy a lot of spots, maybe even the creative with it. A bribe would be giving an election official $50M to announce your candidate as the winner despite not receiving enough votes. Or hiring somebody to falsify ballots. Or maybe rig a counting machine to output a fraudulent result. The people who hype up the value of paid ads are the people who sell them. But they don't have the net effect of illegally forcing a result and it is childish as well as self-defeating to pretend that one has to raise ungodly amounts of money to win elections.

@writeinfreedom Yeah, what do you think 50+ million dollars worth of free ads do you think arent a bribe

@bungarsargon @TradeUnionJake DSA are actual people. Groypers are bots in Nigeria. It's not the same.

"It's the equivalent of the groypers taking over the Republican Party." - Former DSA member @TradeUnionJake on the DSA takeover of the Democratic Party.

When podcasters and politicians say that basically whoever spends the most on advertising is "buying" their seat in office, what they are admitting to is the following: • they think voters are too dumb to make up their mind by their beliefs • they are able to be paid enough to change their expressed beliefs • they don't know how bribery works It's actually annoying as shit and does a disservice to candidates or groups who have little to no money, making them think that they cannot win or succeed.

@wrappingline ...sickos?

I feel like the platform/program sickos have been powerfully vindicated + having the platform has been essential to boosting DSA's organizational profile and ideas

@RickyTheGuido The most anti-American thing you could do would be drop nukes on all U.S. cities wtf are you talking about

Being Pro Israel is the most Anti American thing you could do.

@SStricklandMMA That account basically doesn't exist. Are you too afraid to have conversations with genuine people?

I have a lot of Israeli and jews that are friends..... I think Israel is bad for America and I wont vote for aipac candidates. Thats not antisemitic, thats not jew hatred. Its America first. Why don't you actually make a case for support besides "you hate jews, Muslims are bad"

@camkasky Because AI generation models don't know who the fuck you are.

Why did they make me look like that

Building a political organization of over 100,000 (paying) members like DSA has done is impressive for sure, but calling themselves *the biggest socialist* thing in American history is only true by raw numbers not per capita reality. In other words, in the 1910's there were almost the same number of people in a socialist group, but our population was ~30% of the size. Communist group(s) were smaller than that but these days many critics lump them in together so for the sake of argument it's almost the same number of people as it was +/- 100 years ago but density is so much less that it is not really even comparable. For all the hubbub within the group today, and about them from the *right* it is not really progressing and this makes perfect sense in terms of seeing how fragmented & disorganized they really are. I've been encouraged by the conversations I'm having and frankly the open-mindedness of people who are willing to talk to me, but ultimately if they want anything out of government and politics they are going to have to abandon this idea they are gripping to.

If you're too dumb to understand what I mean in the first go, just ask and I'll explain myself. But insulting me because you're lazy isn't dope.

If anybody ever insults you for this just know they want you to stop paying for it so you don't get the reply boost because they're trying to suppress your content.

@u_kno_2069 Lol spell it out for me... incorrect about what

@writeinfreedom As incorrect

I think a DSA split is probably a good thing, but if not, then let them run AOC and expose themselves.