Goddamit. VA only just got on its feet with cannabis laws that weren’t completely terrible. How did they screw it up this time?
At least we ran over the correct people with the trolley.
Also missing this one
Face it my fellow lefties, we got played by 2 deep cover republican agents, her and the jackass from Pennsylvania, fetterman, totally republican plants, wake up.
I’m not sure how any leftist looked at Spanberger and thought she was anything but a corporate centrist. Still better than the alternative but that doesn’t say much.
All you needed to know was “Ex-CIA”. No such thing.
The executioner with empathy, a well honed blade, a strong arm, and excellent aim is better than a cross-eyed executioner who enjoys inflicting pain with a dull axe.
Fetterman has brain damage. That should have been the clue.
That’s not an excuse, everyone from his state is saying he was an asshole beforehand
The opposite actually. His first year-and-a-half, maybe two years as a senator, his voting record was fine. He wasn’t super radical, but if you look up voting record scores he was one of the more left-leaning senators until the end of his 2nd year.
The stroke happened before he took office. Aa fun as it is to joke about conservatism being caused by brain damage, it just doesn’t line uo with the facts for Fetterman.
There is definite line with Fetterman before and after his stroke. There is no doubt in my mind that that is what happened to him.
Keeping voting for those status quo centrists though…
I didn’t vote for her in the primary. What were we supposed to do, let that crazy piece of shit Winsome win?
Meanwhile Republicans are angry at her for gun control, minimum wage increase, and comprehensive paid family and medical leave.
Vote blue no matter who!
I just looked her up on Wikipedia. It seems she secured the nomination without being contested. Idk, feels like as progressives we should take some responsibility if no one even ran against her. Giving up isn’t virtuous
Yeah, this is why I’ve been telling “leftists” that giving up on the system entirely is a terrible idea and that encouraging others to do so is asinine.
What if we want you to collapse as a nation?
Go fuck off?
Then you are a saying you like suffering and it makes you a sadomasochist that didnt ask for consent from your kink partners as you push your fetish on the world.
You want to continue electing corporatist democrats and fascist republicans in order to further destabilize the country with the largest nuclear stockpile in the world? Instead of electing progressives who would actually try to correct course?
You clearly haven’t thought very deeply on this.
The sooner you crumble, the sooner we can fix things. There is no future with America anymore.
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Whether you’re American or not, this will hurt you too. America collapsing would have incredible ripples to the rest of the world. Entire economies would collapse. That’s the best case, assuming the collapse of the US also isn’t preceded by invasions of other countries, which is likely. In addition, assuming you care about people, there would be a massive amount of suffering, in the US and elsewhere. Also, wherever you are, your government would probably start spending money on the outcome, whatever that is, so it’d effect your taxes as well, if you’re purely selfish and that’s the only thing that matters to you.
If collapse is what it comes to then that’s what it comes to. Wishing for it is fucked up though. It’s probably about the worst outcome for everyone possible, except for maybe empires who want to come in and claim the resources. That won’t help you, but I guess it’ll help whatever empire you’re supporting.
Lemmings outside VA may not know that Spanberger is a Democrat.
I did lol
Progressives are done holding their nose to vote. Dems about to find out the hard way. Again.
Yeah. Abstaining from voting always bring results /s
Liberals should know all about that, seeing as their voter base easily dwarfs the leftists theyre always griping about not voting (even though we do). Blame white liberals, they’re the perpetual disappointment that gets conveniently ignored every time y’all got a bone to pick over your party’s constant floundering
Can we blame Hakeem Jeffries too for being a milquetoast corporatist neoliberal? Or is it just the white liberals that we can blame?
Foul! Everyone knows politics isn’t about race /S
So does that mean we can blame him for being a milquetoast neoliberal, or does he get to play the race card since the other commenter said we should blame “white liberals”?
Oh I was just being silly and making fun of dropping the race card. Like how people will then say why does it have to be about race when in reality it is always about race and sex for that matter.
I don’t think anyone is saying you can’t have the opinion that the minority leader is a wishy washy flim-flan man who serves corporate overlords. I think this is a valid but probably reductionist viewpoint.
I think bring up his race was a predictable response from someone who is pushing back against someone singling out whites. I think it is fair but obviously a little agonistic.
Honestly the original poster and many other people may or may not be racists and may or may not know it. If they weren’t being racist then they could of just been repeating what they heard or even misspoke.
You never really know unless they confirm. And even then that is not the end of it. Just because someone is racist or holds a racist belief doesn’t mean they always have to.
Absolutely. But he’s an elected official, im speaking specifically of voters. White libs consistently do not show up to the polls (doubly so for white men)
White libs consistently do not show up to the polls
Oh fuck off, as if leftists consistently show up to vote. Who was it again who decided to boycott the election in 2024 and helped trump get elected because they couldn’t hold their nose and vote for the person who wasn’t perfect but also want a fascist?
(doubly so for white men)
Just stop with this cheap, worn-out virtue signal. You’re not scoring any points. No one thinks you’re morally superior just because you use “white men” as a punching bag on the internet.
There’s far more nuance than that to every situation, and what you’re doing is both racist and sexist. So unless you can cite some reputable statistics that show a disproportionate amount of non-voting eligible voters are white men, just stop.
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/comment/26598433
Did the math for you. 80% of self identified US leftists vote. White libs alone nearly double the amount of leftists in america. The amount of registered white libs that don’t show up to vote is close to the total amount of leftists in the country. If white liberals showed up to the polls as consistently as leftist did, kamala would’ve won by a landslide
Not abstaining, just not voting blue no matter who
As the French, who gifted that utter mouth-breather of a country with the very concept of modern democracy, would say; “Plus ça change”.
Abigail Nothingberger
It was ridiculous when they put her name and Mikie Sherrill alongside Mamdani after their victories.
Shes one of the best US politicians on the left. I swear the US left hates any candidate that makes a difference.
Limiting worker rights, and raising life saving prescription costs are good things to you?
Noone even ran against her in the primary.
You can’t cry about her not being leftist-enough, if no one bothered to run from her left.
You have a future in comedy.
