It was part of my argument against your desire not to change what is currently broken

But i did want changes and explicitly lined them out…

Right issues on promary length is fine. You quickly pivoted into “dems are bad and out of touch” as a point of policy. Not due to length of the primary. You were right with those thoughts just not at all what I was talking about.

Tbh, it’s exhausting. If the dems even hint at doing something slightly better it quickly becomes an absolute dog pile of “since the dems are not becoming literally perfect overnight this is still bad”. Like I’m starting to think people don’t want any improvement in our political systems

Man I didn’t mean to call the party perfect or desirable in any way. I was just trying to express how I do think longer primaries can be beneficial but the current system should be reworked.

If you want to complain, and rightfully so, how bad the dems are there’s at least 20 other threads where that is the exact topic of conversation. You don’t have to force it in here

You still get to see how they handle under pressure. Which i think is important especially when picking a residential canidate.

Following a democratic voting guide has got to be the least progressive you can be as a Democrat

I kinda get why they drag it out, it allows canidates to respond to the electorate better.

My suggestion would be to make it take 3 months and divide the delegates evenly between all 3. Hell let Iowa be a week early. Plus with ranked choice if a canidate drops out those votes can be reallocated

I do just feel like there’s something about these long races that allow us to get a much better idea of who a canidate is. Once they begin to feel the pressure they start to change.

Yeah! Who needs roads, or power plants, or clean air, or safe medication, or…

I always hated having to write a massive resume, but if you didn’t HR would pass you up. Always felt bad for these hiring managers

Yep I always sprinkled in like one 3 and one 4 just to make it look slightly more realistic. Still got forwarded to jobs so

“They learn about big, strong Nazis”

Umm no we don’t. I think they may have confused their erotica with their history book

You may, but that’s not the argument I made

I mean it is, but okay

“fascists are just voluntarily bad for no reason other than being bad”

So you want to explain the reasons to be a good fascist?

You either have the reading comprehension of a toddler

So you find “strawmen” (none were used btw) too offensive and disingenuous but you find the need to resort to an ad hominem.

I’m not gonna waste any more time on your willfully obtuse ass.

Uh oh another ad hominem. This must be very upsetting!

Have the day you deserve

Don’t you worry I’m already on it. It’s a rainy day with some chance of snow and I get to enjoy being about 4,000 miles away from the orange fascist. Don’t worry I’ll get a mail in ballot or vote early for midterms if the fascists don’t dismantle our democracy by then. Otherwise I’ll enjoy being an ocean away for the next couple of years

I love the argument that the Dems must run the ideal canidate to beat an 80 year old fascist. That the reason Americans picked hate isn’t because they could possibly be prejudiced against women, but that they just don’t like centrists and need to be more inspired to do anything.

I think the answer is plainly far too many Americans are too hateful.

Also love the “no you can’t use the example of the male centrist winning because that would make my point bad”, solid argument

Now credit where credit is due I do think a progressive canidate would have had a much better chance. I just also believe there are too many old, sexist, hateful Americans that will never vote for a woman. Hopefully they die out and that changes

It’s looking more realistic. Twice now American voters have picked the absolute worse person imaginable over a woman.

The first time we can excuse with ignorance, but the second time around there was no excuse. We knew what he did the first round and he’s doing it again for a second.

The only logical explanation I can find is there is a subsection of the population unwilling to vote for a woman.

Obviously yes each campaign had it’s issue we can go into, but when you look at the opposition it’s hard to find the logic

A quick greater restoration should fix that

Cast wish

Wish for army of undead

Done

Truthfully i thought we were getting to a decent resolution.

Both things are happening

That’s not what you said. Your initial comment implied that it was solely due to their sex.

Truthfully now that you’ve fleshed it out I mostly agree but your original comment did not represent this position.

One disagreement though

Some people in the maga movement absolutely are reducing women to just their biological sex. But don’t get mad at me for it, I’m just trying to talk about it.

That’s not what we were talking about. And the first part of the statement is obvious. Yes MAGA is misogynist, you’ll hear no disagreement from me there.

In the case of the two representatives they’re being pushed out for their views. You could convince me their sex made it easier for MAGA to turn on them once they disagree though. But Republicans in general have been very good at keeping their party in line and have a history of ostracizing party members who dissent

My dude what are you talking about?

My point was Boebert and Greene were being pushed out due to their position not their sex.

Obviously the ones toeing the party line aren’t being pushed out. Either way fuck those guys, but that’s not what we were discussing

I suppose that is how the Republicans like to treat them

Nice job moving your goal posts.

You did not claim they “pulled away” from MAGA. You claimed they were “pushed out” and implied this was because they were women.

One gives them agency the other reduces them down to their biological sex.

I do hope they made the choice to pull away realizing how bad these policies are for women.