lol I literally just said I didn’t know him slick
OK so I’ll make a twitch channel dedicated to telling everyone what great friends you and I are. I’ll talk you up every chance I get. We’ll just be inseparable in the twitchy verse, you dig? I’ll become your spokesperson to all the twitches on there, and say whatever I want on your behalf because seriously, what twitcher is interested in who you actually are if you’re not even on the twitch?
Sorry for delay. Not on twitch and had to read up on this guy. He has no DSA affiliation, certainly nothing formal. He appears to be politically aligned but his wiki makes no mention of DSA and his influence appears to be primarily in online/streaming spaces rather than in traditional political organizing or offline movements.
The reason I say DSA won’t discourage you from voting is because they are a political organization with a strategy built around reform, which is impossible with single-issue purity testing.
DSA are Democrats, just progressive ones like Bernie AOC Mamdani etc. They literally run as Dems and would never discourage you from voting. Activism is a big part of their brand.
If you’re talking about the chucklefuck reactionary edgelords and ID-politic protest non-voters on Lemmy, I dont know if these have a name. Accelerationist doomers describes some. Hardline single issue voters would probably describe the rest who aren’t bots or feds.
AFAIK you don’t have to move. Candidates are not required to live in the district for which they seek office. There are tons of districts across the US with basically unchallenged status quo incumbents who could be easily replaced by progressives.
What does this have to do with DSA?
The VBNMW crowd got us to where we are.
Common opinion, but incorrect. The longterm near-complete lack of voter turnout in primary elections, especially Democratic primaries, especially outside presidential election years, and especially by all but the elderly, is by far the greatest predictor of the rightward political shift of the DNC, because it essentially abdicated agenda-setting power over which candidates end up on the ballot to DNC elites.
General election voter turnout has almost zero effect on the policies adopted by future candidates. Not voting in a general election, especially if you did not vote in the primary, is quite likely the worst possible way to communicate your preference as a voter.
If you didn’t participate in the primary, attempting to “take a stand” in the general by not voting is utterly ambiguous. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. There are any number of reasons you might have stayed home. The primary election was your chance to say why.
But let’s say you did participate in the primary, and can safely assume your reasons were recorded. It remains that, by not voting, you join the elgible-non-voter category of the population (majority of the electorate in most US elections) for an election cycle. Since those who don’t vote in one election are more likely to not vote in the next, future candidates have less incentive to consider the non-voter’s political concerns.
All to say, the general election is not the place to communicate your values, especially if you do so by not voting, and especially if you didn’t participate in the primary election. It works against you, against those you care about, against our planet, and may god have mercy on your soul QED
Fact. Not voting might succeed in teaching Dems a lesson about how important it is to vote for bills that contain pro-trans legislation and against bills that contain anti-trans legislation.
But do you want to know what not voting is far better at? Giving Republicans the power to end us.
Early election begins in two weeks. Not voting Democrat = voting to exterminate trans people. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either confused or wants us to die.
As a trans person I beg you, do not listen to my sister, Erin. She is not thinking clearly or responsibly about what will happen to us if Democrats lose.
If you would like to protest on our behalf, please don’t do it by not voting.
A Republican victory costs the community one seat for one term
No. Republicans plan to “end” us. Letting them win costs us our very lives.
Even if that weren’t the case, we are not so selfish as to sacrifice other people, and our planet, just to prove a point.
… Or maybe he’s buying targeted ads to mobilize republican votes, aka the primary use of excess campaign funding
When the ill-served grow tired of despair
I should’ve been a plumber like Castorini
I was just calling out the defeatist children on here who like to write despair polemics for each other mocking grassroots activism, collective organizing, and any notion of reform as “liberal” naïveté, elevating instead accelerationism and “what’s really necessary.” Play dumb and they’ll proudly reveal that they mean lone-wolf vigilantism or full-on stochastic terrorism. They gravitate to negative news stories though, and rarely comment on stories like this except to explain how the progress isn’t real or how the fascists will undo it, then complain that no one will do anything about it.
But you’re right. While I am a leftist, never was a big fan of Biden, and think he made some serious blunders with consequences we’re living through now, I despise the current trend of sacrificing truth on the altar of narrative amplification. For example, a criticism I often heard repeated was that the Biden administration was sleeping on judicial appointments (like, decrying his inaction next to Trump’s aggressive judicial capture). It seemed like an easy thing to check, so I did, and it turned out the opposite was true. By the numbers, his administration was uniquely proactive and had obviously made it a priority. But because the hearsay “felt more right” to so many of us, the corrections were often buried, and I still see this “fact” shared in leftist circles to this day. This is not the way.
Huh, interesting. Not a peep in the comments from our usual doomers and edgelords. Where are all the fear boner fluffers? No smug derision of voting and political activism? Come on. “Do something.”
Edit: OK I see you BigMacHole and Diddlydee. Thank you both for your integrity.
“Holsters” lol. Always prepared.
Presumably a joke unless new to English
They are going to give us a Democrat
Please avoid proclaiming doom in the midst of the fleeting window of opportunity in which it might be averted.
There are no points awarded to the genius who most accurately predicts their own team’s defeat. It is not vigilance. It is not savvy. It helps no one.
Haha, it’s possible. Alas the only gambling I have the stomach for is low stakes card games with friends.
I’m not sure a lack of white candidates would necessarily suggest that they’re under-represented in populist movements. Anecdotal, but the volunteers I worked with in the Mamdani campaign were closer to that percentage representation in most work groups, canvassing teams, and crowds; i.e., plenty of white people who were not only voting for a populist candidate but contributing their time and skills to the campaign.
The simplest explanation as to why POC dominate this year’s roster might be that they represent communities who are more acutely affected by these matters of policy, so they can speak a bit more directly to the challenges addressed by their campaigns. Or something along those lines. Is it possible there’s some dark trend suggested by the demographics of the candidates not matching the national distribution? Sure. But I think I’d need more or better evidence before entertaining that hypothesis.
I was just averaging numbers from the 4 big (yes illegal) betting sites, but I wouldn’t give those much weight at this point, even in a less compromised political climate, just suggesting that perception may be explained in part by these new blood Dems.
Agreed that the senate race is a clincher according to rules of play that the regime intends to ignore regardless.
Re: DNC, party leadership has power/influence over candidates and their platforms only to the extent that they can aid a candidate’s election or reelection. So when leadership demonstrates a lack of interest in winning, or even a vested interest in losing, they forfeit that influence. That’s why I say at this point Jeffries’ fate is bound to the regime’s and I’m not particularly interested in or worried about what he might do or say from here forward.
I have no opinions on the white populist front. I could speculate as to why but it doesn’t strike me as relevant or important.
Well you know us “DSA types”
Not all reality tho
That’s great for them
Clearly
Look I’m in my 30s and don’t have time for games. If Hasan can actually motivate people in their 20s to participate in something off-platform, in the real world, where elections happen, and if he’s willing to do the work to mobilize votes, then I’d say that makes him an organizer, and I’d be happy to work beside him. But until he brings in those votes, his popularity on a gaming streamer platform means less than nothing to me.