https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/1313253932987187201

    • throwawaylemmy [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Right. His last "hope" was with Bernie and that got nuked. So... why look forward/have hope when the "movement" gets crushed by the party/people that say they'd be for it?

      I mean, it's not like he HASN'T tried to establish third parties (he created the Socialist party in Ohio, IIRC). But he knows that shit isn't really gonna get there if people continue to NOT avoid voting Democrat because "lol why try? It's a two party system," etc.

      • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Their last hope was Bernie, and then he went and endorsed Biden and continues to campaign for him. They can't seem to get past the fact that they were incorrect in their analysis, like seriously; get over yourselves, pick yourselves up, realize you have a massive following, and throw your energy behind movements that are actually doing material good.

        • TossedAccount [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          The icing on this shit cake is that one of the potential answers, the Hawkins campaign, was right in front of the Chapos but they decided to give Jesse Ventura a joke endorsement before that campaign fizzled out immediately. Matt needs a stomach pump to extract that god damn grill pill.

        • throwawaylemmy [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          realize you have a massive following, and throw your energy behind movements that are actually doing material good.

          I mean, I'm pretty sure they realize they CAN do good (Bernie), but their "doing good" isn't enacting change (hence Matt's doomer/pessimism). They can throw their weight behind those third parties, but: Will their weight actually matter? To put in better wording, it's like the "Colbert bump" back in Stephen Colbert's conservative-character-bit-era: He would shine a light things, but the "wave"/boost was pretty temporary (from what I remember) like a "reddit/Slashdot hug-of-death" effect.