you want to feel good about voting more than you want to effect change

I don’t remember Biden endorsing ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

That's becasuse you weren't paying attention. Why do libs think the things they ignore don't happen.

Adults vote strategically.

Indeed. That's why we kept telling the Democrats that they were going to lose. But they ignored us, and handed the presidency over to Trump.

The slow walking happened because of the courts, or if you must blame the executive branch, because of Garland.

Oh, you mean Biden's guy? Weird, how Trump, and Obama were able to do whatever they wanted with the DOJ, but Biden? Well, he's just a smol bean, an widdle guy, who has no power.

You know what would have been faster? Not electing fascists.

Well, no, a working legal system would have been faster. Trump was elected after those proceedings were dragged out. Of course, the Democrats also helped take "not electing facsists" off the table years ago.

The DOJ is an independent federal agency. Only in a failed state does a politician wield the legal system against political opponents. Oh hey look! We’re sitting in the failed state you, yes you personally, voted for.

No the DOJ is supposed to be an independent federal agency. It never has been though. And once again, I didn't vote for this. I voted against it. You repeatedly saying untrue things doesn't make them true.

You don’t. There are actually three options and exactly three options in every national election.

I do. I have already factually pointed out how you are wrong about that. Come back when you've read up on it.

Nobody “learns a lesson” when you write in your mom for president.

Yes, you are correct. The Democrats know why I don't vote for them, they just don't care. They'd demonstrably rather have Trump in office, than what I want. I didn't vote against them to "teach them a lesson". I voted against them because they are evil.

The message you’re sending is, “progressives are too stupid to vote strategically, so by all means, try to appeal to more moderates.”

No, the message I'm sending is "I don't want to bomb kids, support genocide, make healthcare the largest cause of bankruptcy in the US, support the police-state, support rapists, support ICE, support openly corrupt politicians, and many of the other things that the Democrats and Republicans both stand for."

What we could do, if you weren’t standing proudly in the way, is make the GOP irrelevant by consistently turning out for Democrats, then primary the Democrats from the left to split the party into its pro-business neoliberal wings and its pro-labor progressive wings.

Well, no, we can't do that. The Democrats have already made it clear that they'd rather lose to the GOP than let progressives have a shot. But you'd have to actually pay attention to know that.

Unfortunately for us, and especially unfortunately for children in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, you want to feel good about voting more than you want to effect change.

No, that what Democrats do. They "feel good" about voting for people who bomb kids, because they buy into the lie that Democrats will do better, despite all evidence to the contrary. I vote based on what I want to happen, not on what professional liars tell me that they will or won't do.

Let me say this again: tens of thousands of children are dead because you wanted to feel smug about voting against both major parties. Good fucking job. A real hero. I bet they’re erecting a statue to you in Gaza City right now out of the rubble you buried children under.

No Tens of thousands of children are dead because the Democrats cared more about Israel, and their rich friends, and the military. But of course, I won't expect you to understand that, as it would involve reading, paying attention, and introspection.