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Cake day: December 11th, 2023

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  • Still, that doesn’t mean a potential coalition member gets to dictate coalition policy

    Tell that to the ‘centrist’ democrats who are currently doing exactly that.

    politicians just learn you will never vote for them and they should look to more conservative constituencies

    I have always voted for them in the past; they looked to more conservative constituencies anyway. Seems like always voting for them just means they take my vote for granted.

    It’s called compromise

    Compromise requires both sides to give ground. What you’re describing is capitulation.

    and yes it is how a functioning democracy works.

    If this is your idea of a functioning democracy, I question why you even believe in democracy in the first place.


  • My guess is that the Biden administration is putting significant pressure on the Israeli government behind the scenes to scale down their invasion, let aid in, and end illegal settlement expansion. They might be using the weapons as a carrot.

    This wild speculation, based on nothing.

    Now think of what the Republicans would be doing in the same situation. Push back? No, they would be cheering from the sidelines like they are now. Illegal settlements? They never much worried about them before.

    You are comparing fanfiction to different fanfiction here; none of this has any bearing to the facts on the ground.



  • People who can’t make a realistic choice are far worse.

    I have made a realistic choice, and it doesn’t involve voting for Genocide Joe.

    When you represent an itty bitty fraction of the populace, you don’t have the right to dictate that policy be far-left.

    Schrödinger’s Leftist: simultaneously an irrelevant tiny minority with no power, and crucially important to Biden winning, being wholly responsible if Trump wins.

    you are only hurting yourself by giving up what little influence you had.

    Unconditionally voting Blue means I have no influence at all.

    That’s just how democracy works

    No, it really isn’t.