If you want a system of government where you as the voter have no culpability, you also need a system of government where you have no voice.

Oke of the powerful electoral factions is going to win. You decide which one to support. That's it. Duty & blame is reciprocal here.

Ps: a common refrain that you'll hear is that "you're saying the Dems can't be at fault, it's the voters, as if the voters owe something to politicians and not the other way around!"

Yes, actually, that's how the social contract of democracy works. Voters yet the government they work for. Or don't.

(yes, I remember this tweet, no matter how inconvenient it is for many people on here)

Make up your mind.

(Ps: a lot of folks already made up their mind, and then they realized "oh yeah that means the public is gonna turn on us and our cause because we will be blamed for Trump. Uhhh... RETREAT!")

Do I blame "the Left" for Harris' defeat? No, there's lots of factors and frankly it was most of all anti-incumbency Malaise backlash, Gaza was imo just a particular subset's excuse.

But you can't really have it both ways, either you're an electorally impotent smol bean or you're a proud wrecker.

Sorry, I wish it were different, but the fact that you’ve got a shitload of fluffers in your quotes and replies doesn’t make it less true.

Anyway, it’s pretty fucking rich for people like this to situate their febrile fantasies as reality and any pushback as “do-nothing-ism.” Ludicrous. The thing about abolishing ICE is that it must be done and that there’s not a pathway to do it until democrats have the congress and the presidency.

Maybe the ask is to shut down the government and make repeal of the OBBBA the demand? I don’t know? Because I genuinely do not know what “while you can” means here.

I get people are mad but goddamn this is active misinformation.

it kinda reminds me of a can of OG Four Loko 🤣🤣🤣