Yeah, yall are not getting around that one. We all have seen the simping posts in the subreddit. You could barely contain your thirst whenever he showed up.
For all the talk about organizing, most of you still seem mostly content with making grand stands about succdemmery and burning your money on whatever politician that walks in.
That's not the main problem here tho. What's really annoying is that as soon as your toy, an ND worker, turned out to be disappointing because he couldn't pull off the electoral campaign you encouraged him to do, you dropped him like a hot potato. Is this your definition of fucking solidarity, you assholes?
It's safe to assume you just jumped on the hate train after Felix told you about the keyboard, which was itself just not true? Imagine getting told by rich NT Brooklyn Podcast hosts about who to see as a grifter.
Of course it was a bad & dumb idea for him to run and he fucked up, it was pretty much malicious incompetence. But that didn't stop you from enabling him. This is not a defense of Collins, this is me telling you off for your shitty behaviour.
Have you got any idea how neurodiverse people feel when they see someone like them try, fail and then getting mocked and humiliated not just by their enemy but by what they thought was their own site?
In my opinion since Bernie was doing good when he first appeared, he rode the wave and people on Chapo supported him . I was indifferent to it but no harm if he wanted to run a small vanity campaign, bring up some issues to light, right?
Then people started to donate to him and thought that he could actually win. It got very sad. I'll sound a bit elitist here and show my succdemness but how the fuck did you think a neurodivergent truck driver with public speaking issues, no prior campaigning experience and no formal education on anything that is related to being in congress could win a congressional race?
People started to call him a grifter after Bernie got blown out on super tuesday because everyone lost hope. I still don't think it was a grift, but i think joshua is not only incompetent, but a huge dumbass.(Unrelated, but holy hell why would you go on a debate with that goddamn neoliberal destiny if you can't articulate a single policy position)
Anyways, chapo subreddit enabled joshua, there's no denying that. However, it doesn't mean that people here mocking him were the ones that did the enabling.
If he had yard signs, mailers, the basic sense to go door to door, it would almost be a campaign. I just can't accept that someone was too fucking moronic to do even the bare minimum to get the word out. Maybe not a grift, but functionally just the same
I'll do some armchair psychology but Joshua doesn't look the part for grifting like this. If you look into his twitter account before the congress shit, it's just him being a reply guy. Since there was nobody around to show him how to actually campaign(with him having no experience) they fucked up. He thought he could be the next AOC
Thing is that AOC busted ass behind the scene to scrape out her win. Yada yada "electoralism" yeah, but winning is hard nonetheless
Yeah i know, that's why it was so sad when people thought he could win.
I'm not inclined to say he was just plain inept but I can agree that he probably wasn't doing this with the intent of taking people's money. Maybe he just didn't expect to get anywhere, then when he actually did get an online following he played to the crowd and became terminally online? Just lived in that space like he always planned to, not adapting just because he had funds to plausibly bring on someone who could give him real direction and presence