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"BUT MUH PURITY!" Fuck you, loser If you don't #vote, you're not a #leftist A leftist has an ideological goal and acts to achieve it "The #candidate sucks" Did you vote in the #primaries? No? So why does the candidate suck? An inert turd tut tutting everyone is not serving ideology They are serving a psychology: Self-validation at the expense of real world stakes (or validation from vote-suppression troll campaigns) Are you blue in the pie chart? Then YOU are to blame #USA #Politics

State Rep #AngieNixon, a #progressive firebrand who ran such an underdog campaign that she could not afford a single television ad, won the Democratic #Senate nomination in #Florida Tuesday in a shocking upset. With her defeat of #AlexVindman, a candidate with establishment backing who raised >16X as much campaign money, Ms. Nixon, a #DemocraticSocialist, continued the left’s winning streak this year in Democratic primaries. #USpol #midterms #primaries #elections

What We Know About Tuesday's Arizona Primaries https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/us/elections/arizona-primary-election-what-we-know.html #Elections #USPolitics #Primaries

@evdelen@mstdn.ca @benroyce@mastodon.social I don’t think you get a natural rightward bend by pulling more people into the voter pool than has traditionally been in it. We see a rightward bend with Trump as the voters he tapped into feel like their votes are actually counting as Republicans haven’t been successful in thwarting their populist base. #Democrats need to vote in more primaries to get Democrat candidates that represent where voters want them to go. #Primaries are the important thing being missed.

I need you stupid assholes out there to #vote The #Democrats suck but "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" is a lie, especially and obviously on the issue of #ICE We can stop this, but you. need. to. fucking. *vote* you perfectionist and cynical losers If you voted in the #primaries (you voted in the primaries, right? to get the left #candidate, right? you're not so fucking impotent and incoherent as to pass up that obvious and easy opportunity, right?) then we might even get some prosecutions out of this

Meet #JaneeseLewisGeorge#Frontrunner for next #mayor of #WashingtonDC #Trump threatened to take over #DC if she wins, which gave a huge boost to her #campaign 🤭 Proudly affiliated with the #DemocraticSocialistsofAmerica #DSA Running as a #Democrat because she has to in our #FPTP voting system If you complain the #Democrats suck, you're right. But if that moves you to not vote, you're an idiot helping #MAGA #Vote. In the #primaries. *Take them over*

How are the #primaries going? In #LA #LosAngeles #urbanPlanner #NithyaRaman advances over #realityTV star #SpencerPratt whose campaign consisted of edgelord #AI shit, I think, I didn't follow that noise How did she manage that? Well, people fucking voted So you out there: Show up, #vote Magic perfect candidate doesn't descend from the heavens with angels singing It's a product of you showing up It's on *you* Get off your fucking ass, and vote https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/nithya-raman-los-angeles-mayor-runoff-profile #California

Opened my California primary ballot today and saw this wall of names. This is just for the governor -- there are more pages for the other items. #uspol #California #primaries #governor

There are many problems with #USA #democracy Like the stupid #ElectoralCollege Gore beat Bush in 2000, Clinton beat Trump in 2016. In the popular vote. The EC erased it Well here's another reason for you to #vote in the #primaries and the general #election: The #Democrats, if they win enough in November, can kill the EC It's been a 20 year effort of states agreeing to void the EC if enough agree: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact https://www.vox.com/politics/487766/national-popular-vote-interstate-compact-electoral-college https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social you're being aspirational, and correct, but you're not announcing *how* to achieve that it's like going "arrest #Trump!" ok and? how? to get #rankedChoiceVoting, which is creeping in in the #USA, and would allow for stable viable 3rd parties... how? we have to elect #Democrats who support that (some do, some don't: vote in the #primaries people!) the #GOP has taken a blanket stand against #RCV nationally, so this is the only way forward

"The #USA has the best #military and growing #freedom!" Mmm. Yeah. Uh huh. Mmm While my fellow Americans huff that cringe lying #cope, the truth is that there is a country that has the best military and growing freedom #Ukraine Ukraine is now the real "leader of the free world" The USA is rotting I wish my fellow Americans would FUCKING #VOTE ALREADY. Entitled assholes In the #primaries. Real left candidates Not #voting is submission to #fascism

@cascheranno@hachyderm.io @RegGuy@mstdn.social that model has been established: #mamdani corporate centrist dems fought him in the #primaries. people showed up anyways then they positioned cuomo in the general. people showed up anyways now we have mamdani BECAUSE PEOPLE FUCKING VOTED so the model? fucking show up and #vote! get in real leftists! especially the #primaries people whining that centrist dems suck doesn't mean shit. it's a red herring. it's a self-defeating whine ignore centrists and replace them

@ErikUden@mastodon.de the #democrats fucking suck but remember: we're stuck in 2 party because we are a shitty #FPTP voting system 3rd party in our system divides the left #vote and helps #MAGA win (we can fix that with ranked choice voting... that's a whole other post) so we are stuck with one way forward: take over the democrats how? we have #primaries coming up and this is your chance to replace your spineless #democrat turd rep with a real leftist mob the primaries what did #mamdani teach us?

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Qasim is right about the #DemocraticParty establishment But I want to underline an important point: "I won't #vote until centrist #Democrats magically turn left" is not a coherent position What you do is you vote, in the #primaries, and replace them They won't change. *You* have to vote Not voting merely means they get worse, and #MAGA wins Low voter turnout from the left helped them become as they are today You have to vote IN THE PRIMARIES What did #Mamdani teach us?

"#Hungary's opposition #Tisza party widens its lead ahead of #Orban's #Fidesz" 🤞 🤞 🤞 If Hungary goes sane in April, and then if enough of the lazy entitled lumps in the #USA show up to #vote in November (after showing up in the #primaries to get real left candidates: BE THERE), then we can put a real dent on our emergent #fascism Fuck your #cynicism VOTE Let's do this, "degenerate Westoids" 🤭