Who are you talking to? Who are you arguing with?  What is this in response to?

So I don’t think anyone who dislikes Facebook is like “Facebook sucks, but all other social media sites are fine and not a problem!” But even taking your strawman at face value, pretty sure Facebook was around before all of those (or at least was more prominent earlier than all of those). It is also more widely used…

I’m not even sure what your post is supposed to be a response to, but holy shit is there a tremendous amount of bullshit there. First of all, I’m going to call bullshit on this idea you have that Republican voters “need permission to break.” On what is this idea based on? Permission from whom? What does this even…

Nominating Biden was the play to win swing states, and it’s working! Biden is up by comfortable margins in those swing states! Democrats have won swing states before without embracing conservative Republicans.

Sanders got over 200,000 votes in the Pennsylvania primary. He got nearly 150,000 votes in the Ohio primary. He got 293,000 votes in the Wisconsin primary. That is easily over a half million votes, across 3 states that would have won Clinton if the election if she had won all of them. All three occurred in the middle…

If those people were “all over” the comment section defending Bernie’s celebration of Rogan’s endorsement should have no problem finding them here and going into those people’s threads with these non-sequitur, irrelevant, and idiotic points, and leave me the fuck alone, because I certainly was not one of those people.…

Bernie gleefully celebrating the endorsement of Joe Rogan was shitty, but who the fuck cares right now?  Bernie Sanders is a nearly-80 year old man who will never be president.  Why are you even bringing him up?  What does he have to do with anything at all, let alone this discussion?

Wait, so you actually think progressives will turn out to vote for Joe Biden?  Or not?  Because you managed to say both things in that response.  And also, not to answer the question, which is does Joe Biden need progressives to win?  Or can he safely ignore progressives?

John Kasich is not a Democrat. He is not going to turn into a Democrat. His values are antithetical to Democratic values. If Joe Biden wins, Kasich will almost certainly work to undermine Joe Biden’s agenda (moderate as that agenda will be). If Joe Biden wins, John Kasich will almost certainly work to elect…

To be clear, I don’t need any convincing to vote for Joe Biden. That’s not what this is about. What I’m getting it is, it sure seems like you are saying that Biden certainly can’t count on, and probably doesn’t need, progressives to show up and vote for him.  

I mean, no one is telling Republicans they can’t vote for Joe Biden or anything.  But if they actually think “Trump is an absolute monster who needs to go.  Along with his enablers,” well, I’m not sure they actually need to be invited to speak at the Democratic convention to vote for Joe Biden.  Seems to me like…

I don’t really have a response to this, because it is far beyond the scope of anything I was arguing about.

The question I am asking is whether you think Biden needs progressives (you know, progressives, that group that doesn’t turn out and apparently doesn’t need to be courted or worried about at all and yet pushed Bernie Sanders to second place in this primary) to win?  Not whether you hope they will turn out or whatever,…

you do realize that there are moderate Democrats, yes

So you think Biden is going to have to win or lose without the progressive vote?

Okay, again, to be clear, what you’re saying is that you don’t think Biden needs progressives to show up and vote for him?

The extension of an invitation to speak at the convention, an extension which even many party elites aren’t afforded, is fairly seen as an endorsement of the speaker. It’s a signal that the party is courting the support of people like Kasich, that the party thinks there is a fairly significant amount of common ground…

I suppose it depends on your definition of base, but even if it’s true that the base made Biden the nominee, so what? It’s pretty widely accepted that the primary factor motivating people to vote for Biden was the perception that he could beat Trump, not any sort of actual excitement, among the base (however defined) o…

I mean, I didn’t say he was “so out of step with the party” so, not really sure how to answer this question, because it’s not something I believe.

They are scared they are going to lose and are willing to reach across the aisle to try to get Republican votes. Not a bad strategy.