You make some wild assumptions to argue against and it’s exhausting. I think you should read back your replies to me and make note of all the times you just assume something and then throw it at me as an attack.
You conveniently left out the part where you threw the first stone at left-leaning voters who lobby criticism against the Democratic Party:
bUt ThE DeMoCraTz DidN’t dO EnOugH fOr tHe WOrKinG cLaSs!!
I responded to that by pointing out that the thing you stated to mock people who hold that sentiment is actually true. (But now you’ve pivoted and actually think it is true? I can’t figure your stance out at all.) You didn’t say anything about nonvoters, no one before you said anything about nonvoters, I was the one who pointed out that nonvoters were a problem by claiming the Democrats foster voter apathy. Does that seem like something a nonvoter would say? But you proceeded to launch an attack against me regardless. And when I pushed backed you kept attacking based on assumptions.
For example: You started throwing out insults about my participation in the political process based on, again, assumptions.
Well, you weren’t entirely wrong but you are pretty ableist. You’re right that I don’t go to meetings. I’m autistic and cannot contribute very well socially. Turning it on for work drains me to the point where I can’t muster anything else for being around people. I can’t understand speech very easily in noisy environments, and even when I can understand I don’t interpret the same way as other people. So instead I research candidates locally and nationally and support in other ways, mainly by donating to progressive primary campaigns. My representative is a pretty safe progressive seat so I don’t usually donate to them, but I do donate to progressives for other local and state offices, I donated to Bernie in 2016 and 2020, and I’ll usually look for other key progressive campaigns in other states to support.
And we do disagree on one thing: I perceived the 2020 primary as a planned, concerted effort by the party to flood the field in order to drown out the fringes, and then drop and push everything towards Biden leading up to Super Tuesday. That’s not even getting into suspicions of both parties using media outlets to push propaganda. I’m still waiting for a primary where the DNC operates in a way to actually let the public form opinions rather than engineering it to push their preferred candidate. As far as I can tell the last time that happened was Obama in 2008 and the party has worked hard ever since to make the primary a farce.
Yeah that “first stone” as you say was heavily weighted in the "I’m not going to vote and it’s because . . " but I didn’t write that part because I thought it was already in the context of the reply.
Apologies for assuming incorrectly, all I’m really asking for is a vote - any vote, really, but ideally one that is most likely to defeat an enormous evil. Outside of that, criticism of DNC policies or whatever is almost certainly fair enough. The only way to change it is to make our voices heard though, whether it’s email, phone call, or other. Which is a drag, because they should already know this, but that’s politics. Any kind of politics.
Look, maybe it’s the autism acting up again but I legitimately don’t see it. Can you help me see where it turned to lefties before your comment? The OP is about Elon, a right wing figure, with the narcissist’s prayer excusing his behavior. Very clearly a criticism of a specific right winger.
Then this comment:
“Trump won’t even be that bad, you LIBERALS are just fearmongering!” God. It’s going to be a long [insert period of time here]
I read that as a pseudoquote of a hypothetical right wing voter. Complete with the way they spew “LIBERAL.” “Trump won’t be that bad” isn’t a common lefty position I’ve seen, most of us voted against our own conscience specifically to keep Trump out.
Then the dino comic that, arguably, could be considered a depiction of your hypothetical lefties. But with the context of the comment it replied to I interpreted it more as a Leopards Ate My Face depiction of Republican voters voting against their own interests.
Then you entered with what appeared to me to be a hard turn towards blaming the far left for what’s happening on the right.
You make some wild assumptions to argue against and it’s exhausting. I think you should read back your replies to me and make note of all the times you just assume something and then throw it at me as an attack.
You conveniently left out the part where you threw the first stone at left-leaning voters who lobby criticism against the Democratic Party:
I responded to that by pointing out that the thing you stated to mock people who hold that sentiment is actually true. (But now you’ve pivoted and actually think it is true? I can’t figure your stance out at all.) You didn’t say anything about nonvoters, no one before you said anything about nonvoters, I was the one who pointed out that nonvoters were a problem by claiming the Democrats foster voter apathy. Does that seem like something a nonvoter would say? But you proceeded to launch an attack against me regardless. And when I pushed backed you kept attacking based on assumptions.
For example: You started throwing out insults about my participation in the political process based on, again, assumptions.
Well, you weren’t entirely wrong but you are pretty ableist. You’re right that I don’t go to meetings. I’m autistic and cannot contribute very well socially. Turning it on for work drains me to the point where I can’t muster anything else for being around people. I can’t understand speech very easily in noisy environments, and even when I can understand I don’t interpret the same way as other people. So instead I research candidates locally and nationally and support in other ways, mainly by donating to progressive primary campaigns. My representative is a pretty safe progressive seat so I don’t usually donate to them, but I do donate to progressives for other local and state offices, I donated to Bernie in 2016 and 2020, and I’ll usually look for other key progressive campaigns in other states to support.
And we do disagree on one thing: I perceived the 2020 primary as a planned, concerted effort by the party to flood the field in order to drown out the fringes, and then drop and push everything towards Biden leading up to Super Tuesday. That’s not even getting into suspicions of both parties using media outlets to push propaganda. I’m still waiting for a primary where the DNC operates in a way to actually let the public form opinions rather than engineering it to push their preferred candidate. As far as I can tell the last time that happened was Obama in 2008 and the party has worked hard ever since to make the primary a farce.
Yeah that “first stone” as you say was heavily weighted in the "I’m not going to vote and it’s because . . " but I didn’t write that part because I thought it was already in the context of the reply.
Apologies for assuming incorrectly, all I’m really asking for is a vote - any vote, really, but ideally one that is most likely to defeat an enormous evil. Outside of that, criticism of DNC policies or whatever is almost certainly fair enough. The only way to change it is to make our voices heard though, whether it’s email, phone call, or other. Which is a drag, because they should already know this, but that’s politics. Any kind of politics.
The things you were replying to were about Republican voters? You made it about Democratic voters.
It was about non-voters. More specifically “lefty” non-voters.
Look, maybe it’s the autism acting up again but I legitimately don’t see it. Can you help me see where it turned to lefties before your comment? The OP is about Elon, a right wing figure, with the narcissist’s prayer excusing his behavior. Very clearly a criticism of a specific right winger.
Then this comment:
I read that as a pseudoquote of a hypothetical right wing voter. Complete with the way they spew “LIBERAL.” “Trump won’t be that bad” isn’t a common lefty position I’ve seen, most of us voted against our own conscience specifically to keep Trump out.
Then the dino comic that, arguably, could be considered a depiction of your hypothetical lefties. But with the context of the comment it replied to I interpreted it more as a Leopards Ate My Face depiction of Republican voters voting against their own interests.
Then you entered with what appeared to me to be a hard turn towards blaming the far left for what’s happening on the right.