lemonaz

So like climate change, right?.. Right?

Your framing is off. Leftists don’t platform any religion. They simply don’t discriminate on the basis of religion. Again, on the basis of any religion.

It’s not just policy, it’s energy.

Becoming a recognized name that sticks in people’s heads is the biggest battle — this is usually the incumbent advantage: this was Manchin’s advantage over Paula Jean Swearengin; but it was also Cuomo’s advantage over Zohran Mamdani… and Cuomo lost. So there’s another way to make yourself known: being disruptive.

I loathe MAGA. They are assholes, but that’s how they took over. That’s what gets them covered in the news, they do constant theater saying asshole things. Literally everyone knows who Marjorie Taylor Greene is, whether they’re into politics or not. Many MAGA politicians nowadays you know first from the podcast circuit. Yes they have an ecosystem but that doesn’t mean we can’t do guerrilla campaigning. After all, Mamdani still won, right?

Now I’m not saying we need progressives to be assholes. But they should be more performative — loudmouths even: get up in people’s faces, speak confidently and provocatively into the camera, tell people your values without them asking. Do things that aren’t necessarily stunts, but that get labeled as stunts.

Mamdani has done a bunch of this stuff, from telling Cuomo how to spell his name, to his full day walking through Manhattan and interacting with people, to how easily he answers even the hardest questions — I mean, you probably already know how good he is at this stuff and how easy he makes it look, so it might be tempting to think you can’t replicate his success because of how uniquely talented he is, but let me give you another example:

Kat Abughazaleh (YouTuber and investigative journalist for Mother Jones and Media Matters, currently running for Congress) has done arguably even more with her campaign: she’s using campaign money for mutual aid (anyone can walk into their office and get free stuff except for ICE), feeding the homeless, Pride and Drag Queen Story Hour; she gave bigots the finger on camera and doubled down; she did a campaign event in a comedy club and turned it into a TED-style stand-up presentation about “General” Michael Flynn wanting to sell your blood. Her campaign slogan as a Democrat is “What if we didn’t suck”! She started in single digits and now she’s single digits away from first place. Watch her explain it though, to get a sense of the energy. (All the other stuff is on her channel too, I highly recommend the Flynn one btw!)

You have to get creative and work the outrage media space, it’s the only way. Get eyes on you and stand up for your values, loudly!

This. The whole framing needs to be pushed back against.

And what was his “merit” again (since that’s how they like to frame it)? Oh right, fooling people into voting for him. Just PR and courting big shots for campaign money.

Fair enough, but I was saying in the “this should become common practice” sense. I don’t think anyone can just post there since it’s owned by the creators, so you have to join them, it’s a package deal.

Where would be a general purpose place to use as the second platform? Something that’s easy to use (and ofc not even more immoral than youtube, so not rumble or things like that).

She also defended herself: “Contrary to brainwashed Democrat boomers think and protest about, Trump is not a king, MAGA is not a cult, and I can and DO have my own opinion.”

Well, maybe people think that because of the other paragraph in your tweet:

“It feels like a complete bait and switch to please the neocons, warmongers, military industrial complex contracts, and neocon tv personalities that MAGA hates and who were NEVER TRUMPERS!” she wrote on X.

See, everyone but you could have (and has) predicted the bait and switch. That’s why you’re a cultist. Not because you don’t have your own opinion, but because you trust a guy who is untrustable.

Well they won’t improve. Your move EU.

That second point is so much more applicable to Russia, but they sing a wholly different tune with regard to that.

Not at broadband speeds, that’s for sure.

I said before but my guess is that with Shel they saw the title “A Boy Named Sue” and automatically banned him.

I’m 1000% sure they banned Shel because of “A Boy Named Sue” which they probably thought was about trans kids.

I have no idea if she’s just that stupid and only sees one move in front of her, or if she always knew but it’s only now suitable for her to say the truth. (It’s also possible it’s both with these people.)

D E S E R V E

In my experience, after a little back and forth they realize they can’t win this on facts and just pull rank.

The capitalist club.

Do Americans not see how insane it is to allow such a “right” at a mass gathering? The risk is so obvious with literally no benefit.

These fucks always try to score legal kills, same as Kyle Rittenhouse and George Zimmerman. It’s not new, but innocent people always end up paying the price.

If you looked inside their mind, that’s probably what you’d see. They’re conditioned to be in this perpetual state of persecution. It’s sad, really, they don’t even get that there’s fascism happening so they think any mentions of it are insults.

But that doesn’t excuse anything, they should know better. They’re bad people helping a bad cause and there’s nothing wrong with being mean to them.