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      Last thing I need is for politics to become the GN v. LMG rivalry. Steve would be a good president if I hear one more “he should have just talked to Linus” I’m gonna lose my mind.

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            Is it for needs?
            Or more like occasional enthusiast-adjacent folk (a bit more towards pop)?

            (I’m actually asking, never really followed anything they do, but all the headlines I saw seemed very much like “watch it for fun, not info” type of deals.)

            I am aware they are fairly giant (revenue) for what they do tho.

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    Gavin Newsom is not the answer to Donald Trump. He’s a lackey to big corporations.

    AOC on the other hand

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      Hahahahahaha

      Until we get rid of capitalism nothing will change.

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      You mean totally fine with genocide in Palestine if that’s what her handlers tell her AOC? That one?

      She’s divisive enough to divide the democrat party again and let another ahitlick fascist like this through.

      Like I cannot harp enough on super callous fascist sexist nazi POTUS, but if Hillary had sat the fuck down in 2016 we would’ve never had this goddamn problem. Shame on the entire DNC for letting it happen and shutting out Bernie, but Hillary had the personal power to let it happen and refused.

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        You won’t have free elections anymore, so all these conjectures aren’t even in question.

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    Can we not be promoting this guy?

    This is a distraction from better candidates.

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      Which are? AOC? Americans will vote for smart young latina woman? If I know anything about americans, they will gouge their eyes with a rusty spoon before they do that.
      Who else do you have?

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        AOC would take a steaming hot dump on fucking gavin newsom because she’s not part of the establishment.

        Stop selling yourself out and giving up before a battle even begins. You’re going to make me sit out another election.

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            You’re a moron and your rhetoric is going to cost the democrats another election.

            Keep repeating the same mistakes expecting different results. It’s what the people taking advantage of you want.

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              Nah. I place 98% of the blame on Republicunts for the state of the country currently.

              I place the other 2% on non-voters. You helped us get here.

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                Well, you can do something about it.

                Start supporting better candidates and encourage others to do the same.

                Once we nominate a candidate that actually cares about the working class, then we can stop having this discussion and focus on solving real problems.

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        Such as that the news cycles hype people like gavin who go on to lose the presidential election?

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        Yes, that’s why we should stop simping for the establishment.

        It’s absolutely pathetic watching you guys line up to sell yourselves out years before the election.

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    Absolutely insane that America has been taught to demand all the worst parts of certain communist ideology without any possible benefit under the guise of protectionism just so a bunch of white me can don’t have to confront the fact they have no personality or empathy and money doesn’t fill that hole

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      demand all the worst parts of certain communist ideology

      Public health care, education, and modern mass transit?

      just so a bunch of white me can don’t have to confront the fact they have no personality or empathy and money doesn’t fill that hole

      Goes a bit deeper. This isn’t simply ego driven, it’s a historically manifest class conflict dating back centuries.

      It isn’t limited to “White men”, either. You’ll find the class conflict echoing from El Salvador to the Philippines to Indian to Israel.

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        wordt parts of certain communist ideology

        Oh no, I was talking about the “silent majority” wanting a leader who sells simple answers to complex problems, a national identity on the basis of a previous “great era” and bloodline as well as millions dying in famine

        And I know leaders like Pol Pot and Mao haven’t been trying to save white men. It just seems in America’s case, that the main demographic that the right wing is chasing is a bunch of white men who love acting as victims in terms of having no spouse, job or hobbies.

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    Are men supposed to be wearing caps indoors, or seated at the table? I thought you were supposed to take your hat off.

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    The rhetoric in here…

    People, third parties will kill your chances. That is a fact. This is true in all first past the post/winner takes all systems, but especially the US one where the parties can just sandbag each other and do nothing, meaning the conservatives win.

    Secondly, you may like to make some guillotine memes, but lets be real. You’re not that guy. You aren’t planning some secret spec ops assassination of the crew behind trump. You didn’t do it for any of the lead up, and you won’t do it now.

    Thirdly, if your progressive sweetheart (and believe me, I’d prefer them too), got into the white house, you very same people would quickly get angry at them and say they aren’t doing enough because you completely fail to understand your own system and this very next point.

    If you actually want to see a turn around, it will be long, boring, slow and unfun. You will not get big results in 1, 2, or even 3 terms. It doesn’t work that way.

    You not only have to keep democrats winning, but also have to slowly flip enough seats to progressive politicians within said party that they significantly change the parties voting patterns and leadership. Its not just that either, you have to get enough of the population to vote for people, a lot of whom you will hate, that they get a super majority in the senate, at the same time as they have a simple majority in the house, and at the same time as they have a president. Only when all 3 of those things happen simultaneously could you possibly even hope to have the types of changes we all want to see implemented implemented.

    There is no other way within this system. Its built to be slow and has more inertia than you can imagine. You’re not about to uproot that system, so you have to understand it, even if you don’t like it.

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    But Gavin… While the country was under stay-at-home and isolate orders during COVID, you hosted a party.