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    16 months ago

    I love how the immediate assumption in response to criticism is that the critic must be voting third party, not voting, or voting for Trump.

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      26 months ago

      That wasn’t my immediate assumption. That was a conclusion drawn after you repeatedly stated that democrats were moving right and basically did nothing good. Which is fine, and I probably shouldn’t have assumed how you would vote, though given the environment these days it wasn’t too audacious of an assumption.

      By all means critique. But also please vote for the furthest left candidate that can win in every election you can vote in. Especially in Texas. This place needs so much damn help, and the Republican leadership definitely isn’t going to help (unless you’re ridiculously wealthy or own a large company). And get others to vote as well, because the only thing that will change Texas is to change the elected officials in charge.

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        16 months ago

        By all means critique. But also please vote for the furthest left candidate that can win in every election you can vote in.

        Already do. Unfortunately, my party does shit like pull the funding from progressive candidates to make sure they can’t win (Michelle Vallejo), so I only get to vote for centrists.

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          16 months ago

          Absolutely. But if we can flip Texas from right and alt right to centrist then we may actually get progressive candidates in other areas (and frankly, if we flip Texas blue we will see a shift in policies from republicans to the left). And, perhaps by some miracle, we can get star or ranked choice voting, but that absolutely won’t happen while republicans are in control here.

          Here’s to a better Texas (lifts shiner [but prefers one of the many smaller microbrews here])

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            6 months ago

            Absolutely. But if we can flip Texas from right and alt right to centrist then we may actually get progressive candidates in other areas

            We’ll get as far as centrist and then the party will protect incumbents like Henry Cuellar. (Notice that they’re not protecting Bowman because he’s a progressive.)

            Here’s to a better Texas (lifts shiner [but prefers one of the many smaller microbrews here]

            If you ever find yourself in the Rio Grande Valley, I’d recommend the Padre Island Brewing Co.

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              16 months ago

              Maybe, but it would be cool to find out, wouldn’t it? Can’t be worse than right now in Texas haha, so we might as well go blue.