one must speak to people in a language they understand.

Donald Trump is the president. the Rational Liberal (tm) appealing to his personal model of the possible is a child staring into a snow globe and imagining a world where he was right. you have informed me that in your imagination, 2040 is the earliest ~reasonable~ date. treating that statement as anything more than…

and they had to be defended in... different ways, back then. it was important to make sure they were Separate, but Equal. only way to avoid scaring the republicans. but you always supported them in your heart, deep down, and that was what -really- mattered, right?

we are advocating for these things as a method of dragging spineless cowards like yourself towards working for them, instead of against them.

“curl up into a whimpering ball, and die quietly” proved not to be a vote-winning approach to health care in 2016, op

has there ever been a good Most Dangerous Game knock-off

i know, it sounds dumb as hell to me too, but that’s the expressed opinion of the Hillary 2016 vets running her campaign.

the DNC’s loyalists have a very simple problem: they really, really want to be the Tories. a party of, by, and for, the professional class and the wealthy, keeping the poors away from anything important.

and instead of running on that platform, y’all decided to run on Man, That Trump Guy, What An Asshole. you let Donald Trump be the candidate of policy, because you were terrified of standing for anything beyond a vague sense of decorum. you got to run your dream campaign, promising nothing beyond I Won’t Be That Guy,…

this argument takes on an extremely interesting character when you note the reason everyone got blindsided by 2016. the core assumption of all the turnout models was that 2016 would basically be Obama 2012.

the assumption that is required to back Kamala Harris is that all Biden’s voters will, inevitably, flow to her once he drops out.

how’d “we give you nothing, in the hopes we can get suburban republicans to vote for us” end up panning out for y’all in 2016

nah. immigration is the working class seeking opportunities. pictures like that one are capital telling you “hey, you’ll work for pictures of us hurting other workers, right”

ah, you were -laughing-, not credulously buying into a fabrication, when you said the right-wing framing of a thing that did not exist was meritorious.

your hatred of people to your left, for being to your left, has forced you to play defense for a phrenology magazine’s decision to flat make shit up, OP.

endorsing phrenologists to own the libs

it is good to see you believe that the article about The Brooklyn DSA Chapter, a thing that definitely exists, is real, and you should feel dismissive of, is not without merit.

you know how in this article is about the experiences of our definitely real protagonist, in the definitely real Mushroom Kingdom DSA chapter

“explaining the thing you are laughing and/or mad about will take more than five minutes for anyone not similarly diseased.”

well, he’s dead now, so that helps the cause