If our only standard is not a Republican, then everytime Republicans lower their standards, they lower the only other option’s standards too.

It’s not fucking sustainable.

Accelerationists would be encouraging people to plow ahead with Biden so trump wins…

Not trying to maximize chances to beat trump while there’s still time before the candidate is named.

trump is a huge threat to American democracy, and I dont see any other reason why so many people insist on a sub optimum candidate except they don’t care if trump wins.

It might be different if Biden didn’t have a 37% approval rating or a 56% disapproval rating.

But people just don’t like Biden, for various reasons he’s just not popular with voters. That’s why people bring up multiple reasons why Biden isn’t a good candidate, there’s just a lot of them. And added together they might let trump win like he did in 2016

not wanting to change horses mid race.

That would make sense if it was the middle of the general and not a month left in the primary.

If we had an open primary with debates, we’d have known months ago

For now,

Bruh…

Do you know what “long term planning” means?

If you don’t think they have one, say it.

Biden could have expanded the courts 4 years ago, but he didnt.

This could have never happened.

Roe vs Wade could still be standing.

So much shit could be better, but Biden didn’t want to fight.

you think they’re not doing anything.

What’s their long term plan?

As far as I can tell, it’s only prevent progressives from taking control of the party.

It doesn’t do what it should.

The point of the party is supposed to be long-term strategy and putting the platform over any one person.

When people talk about what the DNC should be doing, it’s not some “gotchya” to point out that they’re not doing their job and leadership needs replaced.

It’s just proving their point

We need someone that will use every tool at their disposal to stop trump.

Biden has shown time and time again, that’s he’s just not willing to do that.

Stopping trump is more important than Biden, if he won’t fight, and he won’t get out of the way, and the party won’t force him to…

It’s time to ask why we still support the party. The voters are the irreplaceable part, not the party.

It’s been the same since Hillary.

The moderate wing doesn’t just want people to hold their noses, they want 100% loyalty and 0 criticisms.

Because they know that moderate candidates fall under the tiniest bit of scrutiny of their policies. But they’d still rather risk trump than run a candidate Dem voters actually want to vote for.

They aren’t on the people’s side, they’re on their own side.

The only time I’ve agreed with trolling was when that game about making games leaked a pirate version of their game, where no matter what you did after a couple days in-game pirates would pirate all your games and your studio would go bankrupt.

They gave pirates just enough for a demo, while making a point.

Biden:

The only important thing is beating trump

Voters:

So you’ll step aside gracefully to maximize chances of beating trump?

Biden:

The only important thing is me beating trump

and expecting your partner to kill for you.

Some questions are hypothetical or even rhetorical

And honestly on a deeper level there are reasons for women to suddenly go down these hypothetical scenarios related to safety, on a fairly regular basis.

There’s just too much context and subtlies that we can’t know for anyone to give a 100% answer on if a reaction like this is warranted.

Eh.

It could be just her going thru possible consequences out loud. Maybe intentionally to drive the point home about what could have happened.

Like, this is some real shit that women do always need to be aware of, and men just never fucking think about, because we don’t have to.

OP could live in a super sketch area where this level of vigilance is warranted and this shit could be going thru her head.

Like from her POV OP didn’t take the risk serious enough to meet her, if he’s not willing to do that, her mind is running thru where the line is on what he would do. You zero into that by asking big questions. And again, it could be to try and set in the possible consequences.

Like, her wanting to know what level of commitment he has to her safety. I doubt it was extrajudicial executions in her mind, and more Liam Niessons style rescue as a rhetorical device.

For a woman a partner who values their security and safety is important both on an instinctual and sadly still practical level. They have a lot more threats then the average dude will ever think about, especially when young and in the dating stages of life. Even married men sometimes don’t learn about it till later when they have kids their responsible for.

That’s legitimately not gaslighting.

And gaslighting is 100% real thing, but I always think of this Rick and Morty clip now when someone brings it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFM5E93NOF4

Fucking public freakout weirdly broke a lot of news for me back on Reddit.

George Floyd, the protests, crazy trump news, Myanmar… Strangely what sticks out is the Target fire extinguisher lady on a rascal that ended up being parodied in Atlanta. Like, I saw that shit live completely accidentally.

It was crazy how before something had a chance to hit the news, someone already had a full video (sometimes even with context) posted.

The user base was terrible at times, and likely is now again. But there was a period when so much crazy shit was going on, that it actually had rational takes the crazy was diluted enough.

It was just nuts to have a random Livestream up, and see huge national news stories unfolding live or at least immediately after filming.

I don’t think people realized how all that shit lead to political engagement in 2020, people were fucking pissed and motivated.

OP is 100% making a list…

Really brought back big Hillary vibes when Biden tried to say this in reference to Trump.

Like, I get the idea to celebrate a W, but people are politically engaged these days, and obviously know it’s not true.

Just a completely tone deaf comment than anyone with any idea of how voters feel would ever have phrased it that way.

They tried to make a slogan and it blew up in their faces.

Because Biden and his campaign are out of touch with voters.

Stop giving that useless family abandoning piece of shit racist mass murderer oxygen

I mean, probably, yeah that’s a safe bet.

But I meant you replied to me and said one thing, and someone else replied to me saying the exact opposite.

But yeah, you seem to know what you’re talking about and I was curious. So thanks for answering my questions.

Yeah, but their battle passes never expire, and you don’t have to spend real money to get one.

They never expected it to go viral, they budget to go at least a year of story driven campaign and they probably made enough to pay for that times 10 already.

They don’t need to nickel and dime the user base, if anything they can sell less premium shit.