Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • if Progressives are supposed to vote blue no matter who, then Centrists can too. If someone like Mamdani beats Newsom in the 2028 primary they can suck it up and vote for him.

    They should. But like the many left-abstainers in 2024, it remains to be seen if they will.

    If someone like Mamdani runs in the 2028 primary (Mamdani himself being sadly ineligible), they will have my general and primary vote. God forbid a shithead neolib like Newsom gets through.

    But ‘Blue No Matter Who’ is an expression of desperation against the fascists in the GOP, not a magic formula, as much as we wish it was.














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    Actual fact: Americans don’t learn about John Brown because John Brown’s existence highlights a lot of ugly truths about American history, the American people at the time, and how corrupted the core of the American experiment really is.

    John Brown is a very well known figure in the US, and widely taught about.




  • Idk, banning any slight USA “criticism” (if that’s even what that was) feels like unnecessary shrinking the community, but modding is work too & someone has got to do it … then again vibe banning feels like a wrong way forward.

    It wasn’t about “USA criticism”, but the idea that South Korea is an American ‘colony’ is not only bizarre but a common tankie canard - one which you repeated in several comments in that thread.

    Generally I don’t think ppl should be banned solely on pov (without being uncivil or something actually bad). No warning or a chance to reply. Just ban.

    POV is often something actually bad. I’m not here to make the comms I moderate a safe space for campists and fascists or their talking points. If you want to talk bullshit about ‘occupied Korea’, that’s what the tankie triad is for.

    This isn’t a metaphorical Nazi bar, and I’m not about to let it become one no matter how politely it’s phrased.