Damn, way to miss the mark 🤣🤣🤣

Hence

Vote progressive in the primaries

Get enough Progressives and enough left-leaning Democrats together on the issue of rank choice voting, and it really could happen. Obviously, I’m of the opinion that it’s the only way it could happen. So even if the chances are small, it’s what I think we should shoot for.

I could be wrong, but isn’t the “not annexing” because he doesn’t recognize it as a separate territory in the first place?

Let’s not pretend they don’t know what they’re doing. He means it exactly like that, and so does everyone who’s listening to him.

If you’re “out” then stop coming on social media to argue with people.

You don’t want anything to do with the situation, but yet you insist on being part of the conversation.

Without me

Nobody asked you to be part of this conversation, yet you keep showing up. If your morals are so important to you, how about you keep your word.

asked to be part of a political system

But, you’re not being asked. You already are. You don’t get to pretend you’re not, just because you didn’t give your permission. This isn’t an opt-in situation.

And I get that maybe you feel that isn’t fair, and I agree it isn’t. Just like none of us asked to be born, none of us asked to be part of society either. But we are, and we have to deal with that now.

His point is that some people think killing is so wrong that they’ll actively advocate for a course of action that will kill waaaaay more people.

You value your own moral purity over the lives of other people.

That’s his point.

That’s how it’s going to be as long as we continue to use First Past the Post voting.

And since the only people who have the desire, and potentially the power, to change that are Progressives who caucus with the Democrats, vote Progressive in the primaries and Democrat in the general. If you’re not willing to do that, then yeah you might as well get comfortable with the current system.

So what you’re saying is they think it’s sporing

Stability doesn’t mean “peace” it means “things don’t get worse.” And I think we both know that things could be A LOT worse.

IMO this is the real answer. Geopolitical stability in the region, at the cost of letting Israel do whatever it wants including genociding the Palestinians. It makes me sick, but I have a sinking feeling that if we allowed the entire region become unstable, that would make me sick as well.

“Quagmire” is a word for a reason.

The problem is that “biological man/woman” is a nonsense pseudoscientific term. There’s multiple forms of sex determination: chromosomal, hormonal, and phenotypical, for example. And none of them necessarily reflect gender, which is about how the brain develops.

Chromosomal sex is what most people think of when they use terms like “biological man/woman” but the chromosomes themselves aren’t nearly as important as the SRY gene which, if present and active, triggers an embryo to develop hormonally and phenotypically male sex characters and male gender. But the SRY gene isn’t always where it’s supposed to be or working how it’s supposed to work, which can cause mismatches between sexual development and gender.

And that’s only one known potential cause due somebody to be transgender. There are more that we know of, and probably more that we don’t know of.

So yeah, “biological male/female” is a gross oversimplification to the point of being straight up bullshit.

And some that ran unopposed weren’t unopposed until they harassed and threatened their opposition into dropping out of the race.

He knows

Which almost everyone willing to vote for him would fucking hate if they weren’t too dumb to notice.

Kyle Rittenhouse of all people recently called out Trump as being bad for the second amendment, and the folks on the right retaliated by accusing him of being trans

Seriously, there were people analyzing photos of him “proving” that he was born female. And when he retracted his comment, they dropped the whole thing.

It’s fucking wild

I’m quite sure you don’t understand how it works.

Just setting up plausible deniability against accusations of helping trump.

it’s not like logical consistency matters to them.

In fact, fascists see the ability to just say whatever gets them the most power in the moment as a strength. They’re not held back by “weaknesses” like truth and facts

All that matters to them is power

What’s funny is that i interpreted the changes shown in the meme as making it softer on Israel. First edit removes the reference to the school, second edit changes the number of people killed from a big number “over 100” to a fuzzy amount “scores” that is easier to underestimate.

It’s since added that information back in, but in the meme it looks like it’s trying to make Israel look as not-bad as possible.

Naturally it would be preposterous for him to be on the ticket for President, but the reason they continue to let him run for Congress is because he counts towards the Dems in terms of determining which party has the majority and therefore sets the agenda for that chamber of Congress. Without him, that particular part of WV would almost certainly go to the GOP and tip control of the Senate firmly in their favor.

It’s a deal with a devil, and one that has burned the Dems more than once. But without him we’d probably be completely fucked.