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Explaining her surprising victory in a blog post, DiMezzo wrote: “I went into it expecting that I would lose the primary to a write-in candidate, because I didn’t think that so many voters were just… completely and totally oblivious about who they are voting for.

“Because the fact is that you didn’t bother. You trusted the system. You trusted the establishment. You trusted the party. You felt safe.

“You were sure that there must be some mechanisms in place to prevent from occurring exactly what just occurred.

“Your anger is misplaced if you direct it at me. Please listen. Your anger is with the system that has lied to you. Your anger is with the system that convinced you to believe in it, trust in it, and have faith in it, when it is completely and utterly broken.

“More than 4,000 people went into the voting booth on September 8 this week, and they all filled in the circle by my name despite knowing absolutely nothing about the person they were nominating to the most powerful law enforcement position in the county.

“That’s a level of recklessness of which any decent human being should be ashamed.”

    • soufatlantasanta [any]
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      4 years ago

      She's one leftist friend and Kropotkin reading away from being an actual anarchist

      • StolenStalin [comrade/them,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        seriously i like thinking about people this way. instead of like chuds or boomers or w/e maybe a map of where they are on the path of radicalization

        • soufatlantasanta [any]
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          4 years ago

          Definitely although we also need to identify lost causes where resources are better spent radicalizing other people than continuing to waste time on someone too addled by brainworms for us to fix them

          • StolenStalin [comrade/them,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            i mean if you have a list of other people to radicalize yeah. if youre like me and rarely talk to people just radicalize whoevers around you whenever. even if they dont, the ideas will be there. used to be an anti sjw type, all my brainworm riddled convos with cool people sped up my actual radicalization later, it weakens the brainworms even if you feel like no progress is being made.