Yeah, how is this a shock to people? If they can’t have their own neoliberals in office, they would absolutely prefer to lose to another neoliberal than win with a progressive.

America desperately needs preferential voting.

They’re not mutually exclusive.

What progressives? There’s about 3 of them in politics. They don’t have the power to stand in the way of anything because they’re hopelessly outnumbered by “neoliberalism but you can have crumbs and social things”.

People like you need to wake up. You’re not going to get “slow progress” out of the lesser of two evils, you’re going to get a negligbly slower slide into fascism. There is no protecting your comfortable bubble at this point.

Who do you think I am?

They accomplished the majority of it by simply showing up. They didn’t need their guns or elaborate criminal conspiracies, they just applied for positions of power (however minor) and used that power to push their agenda and support their dogshit friends doing the same.

Meanwhile, progressivism on the internet has been taken over nihilistic neckbeards that just sit back and watch it all happen, making worthless promises about how if it gets too bad, their for-profit firearms will bail them out.

We used to get arrested.

If you don’t want segregation, vote Republican but if you do want segregation, also vote Republican.

I’m not under any obligation to prove it to you until you supply the “evidence” you’re mentioning. In the domain of rhetoric, “laws don’t dissuade criminals” people sounds dumb as fuck and goes against the way we’ve run societies for thousands of years.

I’ve witnessed laws – which frequently go hand in hand with your “socially frowned upon” acts – change peoples behaviour, from drink driving to your own littering example.

Every crime is a calculation of risk and reward. The internet makes things lower risk, but there are absolutely laws that work. They’re why the web isn’t riddled with child pornography and why online drug marketplaces have to exist behind 10 layers of bullshit.

You’re advocating that the risk should be nonexistent and that victims have no avenues for justice.

Making things illegal absolutely stops criminals. It doesn’t stop all criminals, but that’s never been the expectation. If you want to dismiss laws on the basis of not being 100% effective, there’s not a single law you support.

His word is demonstrably worthless.

Them banging people doesn’t upset them, only that their wives and daughters might do the same.

When the birth control pill was first released, people opposed it by claiming that women would just take trains of lovers while their husband was at work, since there was no longer the risk of pregnancy.

That was 64 years and many of those people became politicians and church leaders or passed their shitty views down to their shitty children.

If you put them in a room full of neo-nazis, they could explain it just fine. They only have trouble explaining it on television, where they need to pretend they’re not racist authoritarians.

While I hope this is the case, she may have simply been backed into a corner on a promise she couldn’t deliver.

There’s no profit in ethical standards.

What a joke you are. Are we actually supposed to pretend your guns are more than cosplay props when you’re not even willing to risk being banned from anonymous social media to advocate your cause?

Well I’m not scared of being banned, so take your guns and your pro-gun astroturfing and fuck off.

I’m not saying we take to the streets with weapons

Then you’re doing nothing but shilling for the gun lobby, who immediately donate millions to the worst Republicans.

If you’re going to advocate guns, you should be willing to tell people what to use them for.

Why would for-profit media companies do something like that? It’s dangerous, expensive and brings in less money than clickbait about celebrities.

Being rich sounds easy as fuck.

He is almost certainly not carrying it for that reason.

Since it was deemed profitable to do so. Every vote is an ad impression and trying to manipulate or correct the value just means even more ad impressions.

It’s the lack of ranked choice voting. It forces center-right neoliberals to share a party with fascists and progressives to share a party with slightly less psychopathic neoliberals.