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A trolley problem meme captioned "The two party system" showing a person at a lever who can only change the color of the trolley from red to blue while it runs over a long line of people.
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago* (3 children)

Bro you're crashing out cuz I'm telling you to watch a documentary.

Also leading with a logical fallacy doesn't incentivize me to read your rant.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    you’re crashing out

    Bruh no one is "crashing out", you just wont engage with the fact that the world has changed since 2018. Which you could just acknowledge, but for some reason you've decided a documentary made to inspire highschoolers and to convince NPR liberals they know more than they do is the high watermark for political campaign strategy.

    Like, you genuinely have to address the issue that, by and large, all insurgent campaigns since Bernies initially run have.. pretty much entirely adopted the political calculus which the documentary outlines. But in 2026 thats not enough. Establishment candidates know you'll be using those strategies, and they have built up tools and strategies to try and counter those strategies. If you don't update, you lose.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    65.3 % of americans voted in 2024.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I think previously you were.. something something non-sequiters?

    Whats your answer for when AIPAC helicopters in 10 31mil^1^ in PAC money to the house race you are managing? When they start setting up shell PAC's like Elect Chicago Women, and use it to run ads for the zionist candidates? What do you do when AIPAC shells are paying TikTokers 1500 a post to say something negative about a candidate, per post?

    There are not answers to those question in the documentary, because when it was being made, those candidates didn't face the same battles current candidates do. And current candidates face these challenges, in part, because of the success of candidates like AOC, Talib, Omar. The environment is fundamentally different.

    1: 10 mil was the early estimate. AIPAC spent 31 mil to stop the progressive.

    Editing in some more detail.. because this is fun and its fun to run dunks, but its also good to prep for more competent opponents than you.

    In 2018, AOC raised 600k from small dollar donors to fund her campaign. She left the campaign with 370k banked. In Kat Abughazaleh's recent race (which she lost), she raised nearly 3.5 million from the same class and size of donation as AOC.

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