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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Stop trying to subdivide, ding dong… I’m left as fuck, protest actions for over 20 years for progressive cause and in defense of marginalized groups. I’ve stood face to face with swat teams in riot great and rifles while shutting down major intersections. Donated a year of my life, without pay in prone earning years, leading up to the 2020 election to get people registered and voting to head off fascism for another 4 years. I doubt you’ve done shit of value to progress, beyond clutching your ideals in online fights - happy for you to prove me wrong though


  • Please, hold hard ideal outcomes closely as the things that help shape your mission and personal principles AND THEN figure out how to change the system that exists.

    Sounds like you have an outlook on the world that only serves to forgive you personally for not changing anything. You hold that hard line on your unrealistic ideals no matter what… because it’s FUCKING difficult to actually change anything. So you can try, fail, and sleep well telling yourself that you screaming at the sun was noble.

    Democracy inherently contains compromise. Grow up, play a longer game, be happy with tangible progress over time that you can hand off to kids following you with a blueprint that can lead to that ideal over time. If not, you’ll spin your wheels with nothing ever meaningfully changing - and then you’ll die having accomplished nothing.



  • I’m referencing the major third parties that have traditionally drawn relatively large amounts of votes in our general elections, mostly green party historically. Parties that stay on the ballot through election day and can draw that meaningful 1% number that sways elections historically.

    DSA obviously does a lot and has meaningful seats in Congress and state and local office, but they aren’t the third party that stays in to knowingly sway elections when we get close to election day. They are adults that concede to the lesser evil (in our current broken binary system) when the tea leaves are clear and for the greatest good.


  • Notice how nobody is fired because it’s illegal as they are attempting this They are working to intimidate them into voluntarily quitting on principle and for those that refuse, they put them on indefinite PAID leave - no value from their expertise AND still paying for it, plus the cost of the chaos on top - financial and human costs.

    If we somehow survive this moment, a legitimate justice system will also be devastated by hundreds of thousands of labor lawsuits with strong cases as to why they are deserved settlements for lost opportunity, stress, etc. Make no mistake that this is a part of it, the longer we wait to stand up against this the larger the untold number of poison pills hidden throughout our systems will be. Bobby traps to weigh down decent people for decades to come, should the republicans somehow peacefully leave office one day (highly unlikely)







  • You very conveniently ignored the word “meaningful” in your paraphrasing of what I said - actually says a lot about the value of anything you have to offer in a conversation. You also just completely fell on your face by not even attempting to offer any tangible examples to make a flailing attempt to prove your false assertion here

    Stein herself was forced to admit that if she somehow won the presidency, she’d have no existing coalition in government to start working with, because none of them hold ANY meaningful office, because they aren’t serious or consistent parties. But of course again, her point was never to win, it was to make the republicans win by diluting the dem vote.

    You’re not a good spokesperson for your cause, quit while you’re behind.