again, i cannot stress to you enough that the person you responded to did not say that. we're allowed to criticize the party for making decisions that lost them votes without being yelled at by people who think that means we didn't vote blue

do you consistently respond to criticisms of the party by misrepresenting the criticism as being "both sides bad," or do you only do it when the criticism is about genocide?

i'm hopeful that more people than ever will have Doing The Thing as their new years resolution

mine is to win a billion dollars in the lottery

that's not *too* unrealistic. for example, it's not too late for the current US president to defeat donald trump. sort of like hitler was defeated by the leader of germany

the one mentioned in the previous paragraph

i think you already had another browser tab open and got it mixed up with the new one or something like that. i haven't heard of string in a maze

evil creature

guy running at me with a knife: "in the future there won't be stabbings"

and i'm not even saying it's as bad as it sounds. it's certainly not a bad enough stance that i would refuse to argue with it. but there's something cowardly about hiding behind "VBNMW" as if it makes your stance any different.

they'd have little incentive to be better than republicans, only better than each other. but also, i think they'd have little incentive to do anything they promised in the primary. my understanding is that it's very difficult to primary an incumbent.

you're willing to tolerate transphobia from a democratic candidate. just because it doesn't sound very good when framed so bluntly doesn't make it a misrepresentation.

and nobody is proposing "nobody ever voting," but that's certainly a great way to misrepresent someone's position to make it look ridiculous

sure, if we VBNMW, democrats would win more. they'll fight to be the most popular in the primaries and then effortlessly win the general. and then they'll be garbage because they know we're voting for them no matter what. also, i don't think *that's* why republicans ended up so fascist.

there's nothing ineffectual about a voting population using its leverage. what do you think would happen if everyone emulated you and stated openly that they'd vote for any democrat, no matter who? do you think we'd end up with good candidates?

someone once told me that someday AI art will be indistinguishable from real art and then nobody will have a problem with it. they could not comprehend the simple concept that people like things that people made, and hiding the fact that people didn't make something is tantamount to fraud

they either are or are not bad enough. even if the republican was literally satan, there could still be a democrat bad enough. just admit that you can tolerate transphobia. it's the truth no matter how you try to justify it without saying it outright.