So glad we handed over all levers of power to these morons.

One of the biggest hurdles would be, since we still have a FPTP system, mutually agreeing when to withdraw and support the other party’s candidate in races where the fascist candidate(s) seem poised to win. Especially since the nature of politics means that both sides would be looking to screw each other over… and the Dems have a lot of experience in screwing over political rivals.

Yeah. I’m not shocked or anything, but there’s a very nonzero chance that I’ll be vomiting blood on the floor of my kitchen in the coming years until I exsanguinate.

At least I won’t be a drain on the taxpayers anymore. Thanks, abstainers, for saving a poor wretch like me the immense burden of continuing life.

Don’t worry, plenty of non-Russians think Ukrainian lives are an acceptable price to pay for…

… not really sure what they think they’re getting out of it. But it’s very important that Russian fascists get to genocide all the Ukrainians they want, apparently.

Fucking fascist ghouls. Good on Mamdani for not putting up with it, though it’s horrifying that this is already a fucking concern.

Center-left, if we are using those definitions for far-left and left, would probably be social democracy - ie a genuine attempt to redistribute wealth within the framework of a capitalist system.

Center would be Rhineland capitalism - attempts to make a capitalist system with basic controls and direction for the interests of the people or the state.

Center-right would probably be whatever the fuck incoherent shite America has been doing the past 100 years or so, where there’s regulations and a welfare state but the government itself is constantly campaigning against them and shaming its users.

Right would then be the Reaganite trickle-down fever-dream where laws are a suggestion and the accumulation of wealth to the elite is an end in and of itself.

Thus putting far-right as outright fascism or ancapistan.

I remember having a talk with a vet friend about this very subject. We both mused that it feels like having a fucking funeral for a deeply flawed creature that we nonetheless loved very much, and that is now shuffling around like a grotesque, insect-ridden meat puppet.

I love when people use the results of the ratfucking to try to prove there was no ratfucking

Oh, great, we’re back to the “Every poll was forged in a massive media conspiracy to cover the DNC’s vote forgery” hours, it must be 2016 or 2020 after Super Tuesday.

maybe let the people who actually vote for the party decide who they prefer as candidates

Those people said “Clinton” and then “Biden”. Both over Bernie, who was far more charismatic than both and with a fucking spotless record, unlike both.

Not sure that the primary voters’ll be delivering a progressive savior unless the demographics of who votes in Dem primaries changes radically.

(the closest we’ve ever been was Sanders, and the DNC ensured that he was not going to be on the ballot.)

Ah, yes, when the DNC forged millions of votes to make Sanders lose. Twice.

Fuck’s sake. Show up for the primaries next time, goddamn you.

I wish I could say I was surprised.

Honestly, if someone decided to execute me for any of my behavior in Middle School, I’d take my punishment without complaint. It’d be a just sentence tbqh

Some will. Many will. Probably even most.

The question that remains to be seen is if enough of them are hypocrites and fascist-enablers to sink the run.

What a dipshit fascist, attempting to be a spoiler candidate.

If I had a dollar for everyone who complained about Dem candidates but didn’t vote in the primaries, I’d probably deserve the guillotine.

It’s funny. When the impeachment attempt was announced, it was roundly condemned by Very Serious Leftists as useless and, in fact, targeting Trump for something that was not actually illegal, and thus more proof of Dem complicity by engaging in ‘pointless’ symbolic action instead of ‘real’ interference.

And now that most Dem reps seem to agree with this position, many of those same Very Serious Leftists regard not supporting the impeachment attempt also as proof of Dem complicity.

Good. And fuck Cuomo for trying to split the vote despite losing the primary.

Hope isn’t the right word for me. But I would very deeply enjoy Trump swinging from a noose of his own make.