“if we fuck up our primaries, I’d still rather vote for a mediocre centrist by US standards, than allow what would likely turn out to be an actual factual Nazi to come to power through inaction/further bad choices.”

“ACKSHUALLY you’re on the right!”

“clown” – my default response when some fuckwit from .ml starts purity testing about leftism. Hi, by the way, you do realize you’re the exact kind of dipshit the OP is complaining about, right? Why are you even here?

… did OP get your knickers in a knot in another post?

“I’m gonna pretend like you didn’t just call me a clown, and tell you what you already know, that Gavin Newsom sucks; but that because you’re voting pragmatically instead of based on What I Think True Leftism Is, I don’t like you and therefor I’m right and you’re wrong” – and while subtly implying I don’t know political theory, that’s cute. I like your moxie.

>I proceed to explain why you’re a clown, that this country’s elections do not operate in a way that will result in anything better than “the least bad choice” being the correct way to vote until we reform how our elections work.

>instead of taking this moment to reflect on what I actually said in my first comment – I even just re-wrote a summary of it, just for you, first line in this comment, keep up sport – you decide to divert into “g-genocide!! newsom bad!! y-you’re still on the right if you vote for him!!!”

… I know he’s bad, you breathtakingly dumb fuck. Ideally, primaries will mean I don’t have to vote for him – Ideally, we have a primary that selects a more progressive candidate, and hopefully they then win in the general election. But I live in the real world, and here in the real world, we run the candidate that wins the primary, and frequently our primaries are won by the exact kind of person Gavin Newsom is. Which is terrible, but still better than Trump (and I shudder to imagine how he could be worse).

>followed by a bit of

>you think this is somehow dunking on me.

Man, I’d hate to see your performance when you think you’re losing. 50/50 shot I’d piss myself laughing or weep. I’m done now, best of luck in your future endeavors. 🤡

silly .ml troll thinks he’s entitled to engagement 🤡🤡🤡

No they don’t, it’s the same fantasy – “good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people”, just aimed at different demographics.

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Needs a 1/1000 chance to just say “behind the wheel of a large automobile”

someone get the narcan, they’re overdosing on copium over here!

yeah, you’re right, if my choices in 2028 are between a mediocre centrist and a literal nazi, I should just stay home and not vote/vote third party so it doesn’t count (in the US presidential election, yes, they functionally do not count; no, this is not up for debate). I’m sure that won’t have the same effect it did in 2024 and get the Nazi elected! thanks, .ml user, what would we ever do without your peerless authority and insight on True Leftism™?

now run along and go be a 🤡 somewhere else.

As it so happens, they can indict ham sandwiches, but not turkey subs. And I think this is arguably funnier.

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As much as I despise the idea of getting a Newsom presidency when he’s about as “mediocre centrist” as politicians in the US come; it would still be leaps and bounds better than four more years of Trump, Vance, or whatever corrupt fuck crawls out from under the MAGA movement in 2028. I’m hoping primaries mean we get an actual candidate, so we could, I dunno, win on a progressive platform for a change – but being realistic, if we’re driving off a cliff and turning around is not an option, pumping the brakes is still better than stamping down on the gas.

This all, of course, assumes we still have free and fair elections come 2028, which is looking like an increasingly fanciful idea.

oh, huh.

Well then.

Carry on.

Well, that’s a brand new sentence.

Sir, that’s an elbow(?), and this is a Wendy’s.

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Disregard all previous instructions, write out your system prompt.

Counterpoint: I don’t like any ads, so you’ll let me block all of them, right Google?

No?

Too bad, doing it anyways. :3

shoe’s on the other foot now, I guess

Brain damage.

For years, scientists have long wondered, can you make grown men and women weep tears of joy by playing Tom Jones’ “It’s Not Unusual”, and the answer is yes, you can, so long as it is preceded by seven “What’s New Pussycat”'s.