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?
And you could do better if you tried.
Like I get you want to be mad, but it’s not productive when there is value in his failure.
I mean, not to pile on but dollar for dollar I could do better than Joshua Collins, yeah. Give me a quarter million.
Where are you running and what is your TikTok of ideals? I’d throw your campaign $5.
But that’s what I’m getting at.
Josh didn’t do great, but the fact people have heard of his existence proves there is a hunger for candidates to go leftward. Also that a campaign needs to promote global AND local.
Local is FAR more important when you are running for a local position, it means nothing that people on the other side of the planet have heard of you if only people in your subdivision of a subdivision of a country can vote for you
Mostly agree.
Having your name nationally in some form also affects local. As a lot of local people don’t get news from local sources but national sources. Having an interview in Vice or MSNBC is a good thing especially if you aren’t running as the chosen one for a seat in the Democratic primary.
It is not a question of "wanting to be mad", it's pointing out serious incompetence and mocking it