• mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The goal is to give others who fear Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed…

    He’s not even a socialist or politically fringe at all, tf do they “fear,” his last name?

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    It’s infuriating how nakedly obvious the goal of the democrat machine is, and yet liberals will still refuse to see that

    -Don’t vote for El-Sayed to “punish Donald Trump” (lmao) vs

    -“How do you feel about not voting for Kamala Harris” ‘righteous’ furor

    El-Sayed isn’t even that leftwing.

    “When it comes to the question of socialism, I’m not a socialist. I’m just a capitalist who understands how capitalism works.”

    …has cited US actions during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and in Serbia during the 1990s as examples of beneficial US intervention.

    In September 2025, he said that military aid to Ukraine was about “enforcing the rules of the rules-based international order in accordance with our allies”

    He’s a garden variety liberal that isn’t easily cowed and has a handful of good positions, but one of them is opposition to Israel and another is taxing rich people, so out the window they throw him.

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      I’m just a capitalist who understands how capitalism works

      Honestly I actually respect that. I wish everyone would just drop the masks and the word games and lay it all on the table and have it out. I’m fuckin tired yall.

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        If you’re a capitalist invested in keeping the system going, some degree of social democracy is absolutely in your interest. Certainly more so than the status quo in the US.

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    The full article: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2026/10/16/dem-leaders-urge-party-to-vote-none-of-the-above-in-senate-race-finley/92269640007/

    The name on the byline is an editor and publishes a newsletter op ed called “The Right Take”, which is billed as:

    This seems to be a reactionary fascist local rag giving print space to a couple of washed-up Dem zionists and their nonsensical Hail Mary play:

    Lon Johnson, a former Michigan Democratic Party chair, and David Kramer, a longtime Democratic strategist who has previously helped elect Democrats to the Senate, are leading the effort. Both supported Rep. Haley Stevens over El-Sayed in the August Democratic primary.

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      It’s fucking wild that candidate when on tv absolutely hammered and still made more sense than Joe Biden on the debate stage.

  • The ending to the op-ed this piece is based on:

    “Supporting a candidate is a choice, not an obligation. Party loyalty is not blind obedience. Support must be earned, and a vote is never owed.”

    Hahahaha! Your denouncing the entire Democrat electoral strategy.

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      Should save this article for when libs wax poetic about Hillary or Kamala and how we cost them those elections. Though the prevailing narrative with Kamala is apparently either about her laugh or that the election was stolen.

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    they’re covering our greatest hits with a kazoo and walmart recorder

  • DoofusAscendant [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The goal is to give others who fear Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed but loathe Donald Trump a way to punish the president while helping defeat El-Sayed…

    Eating your cake and having it too technology has advanced too far!