• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    IMO, when people say “blue no matter who,” that basically means, “don’t let the MAGAs get 50.1% of the vote in a general election.” That’s how you get jackboot ICE agents rolling around and authoritarians plotting coups.

    People try to get really progressive candidates on the ballot as a 3rd party, and unless you have ranked choice, that’s a really bad idea in races where a MAGA candidate could win or lose by a few percent.

    The play needs to be what the DSA is doing. Use the democratic primaries to get in. Not the general.

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      12 hours ago

      And IMO “Blue No Matter Who” means “please vote for the polite imperialists, because I don’t care what happens to anyone I don’t know as long as I do have to hear about it on the news.”

      It’s a call to just be ok with US funded genocide, concentration camps on US soil, constant war, no police accountability, and throwing trans rights under the bus because if you don’t the other guys will do all that same shit but the media will actually talk about it so you can’t pretend it isn’t happening.

      The play needs to be what Lenin, Castro, and Mao all did, overthrow the disgusting ruling class and establish a government run by workers.