"Never Biden" and "Bernie or Bust"

[solarbird]

Okay, so, I just went the fuck off on somebody on Twitter who - like I'm starting to see from Bernie Bros - has gone all-in against a potential nominee, in this case, Joe Biden. They're all-in on Never Biden, just like I'm seeing Bernie or Bust. If the wrong candidate gets the nomination, they're either not voting, or voting for 45.

If this is you, if you're going to do that and mean it, please, unfriend me now. I mean it.

In fact, go ahead and block me. It'll save time.

Because, see - this is how some of us - the targeted groups, the ones they want dead - this is how we know that you'll let them kill us all, like they want to. Push comes to shove, you'll stand by and let it happen.

(And do not fucking come to me saying that if it gets that bad you'll be in the streets or some bullshit like that. You won't even vote for the terrible over the exterminationist, you sure as fuck won't do more.)

I've been watching leftists and liberals do this dance my entire life, I hate it so much, and I'm just done. Every election in my lifetime has been existential to one degree or another, and I don't know what it takes to get that through peoples' heads, because I sure as fuck haven't found it.

But that doesn't make it less true.

And if you don't mean it, but you're saying it anyway as some sort of "it's just a threat for the primaries, I'll change my mind in the general," fuck that too. Why?

Because that strategy is pretty much holding a gun to my head and saying, "vote my way or I'm shooting this bitch."

And you know what the alt-right and the fundamentalists will say to that?

"Great! Go ahead! Saves us a bullet!"

I am not expendable and I am not your _fucking_ poker chip. So if that's your argument, you can still fuck off.

And if you're in a "safe" state? If your vote "won't matter?"

Well, every time people who do this go off like this - particularly with a hashtag, particularly with essays, particularly with sharing it around - they convince some voters in a swing state that hey, maybe they should do the same thing.

After all, that's the point, isn't it?

And that gets right back to being somebody else's poker chip, and again: fuck that, and if you're doing it, fuck you.

So if this is you?

Save us both some time. Block me now. Because I am fucking done.

Comments

[maellenkleth]

Quite agree with you; we live in increasingly-hostile times.

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[ng_moonmoth]

The current occupant of the White House has, by his destruction of the agencies charged with protecting such things as air that can be breathed without choking, water that can be drunk without being poisoned, wholesome food, neighborhoods that one can live in where the houses are safer than the streets, and streets that one can walk down without fear of being killed -- things that were previously believed to be the property of all people in this country -- has stolen them and given them to his cronies, who profit by this from selling those rights to those who had them stolen, and denying them to those who will not or cannot pay.

If someone really thinks that living in that country is better than removing the person who is performing these crimes against humanity and replacing him with *anyone* who will move toward restoring those rights to the people from whom they were wrested under cover of law, I suggest they find another country to live in more suited to their tastes, without enabling all of us who believe otherwise to inhabit their dystopia.

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[jessie_c]

It's very sad to contemplate the fact that there are people in the USA who truly deserve Trump, except that because they're white and straight and (mostly) male, they won't actually get the fate they deserve from him.
I fear more and more each day that your once great country is descending into Fascism

[librarygeek]

Thank you. All I have left is inarticulate screaming like a Valkyrie, because they're aiming at *my teenager!*

So I'm avoiding FB, working on my education, because those of us who survive this, well, everyone needs therapy at this point. :-/ ✡️🌈🧐

[talkswithwind]

The tendency of members of the left to get lost in ideological puritanism is something I've watched my whole life. The right has that happen too, but they're much better at voting for the lesser evil instead of not voting at all when their chosen-one loses a primary. On the left we have the idea that if you vote for a lesser evil you are now complicit in that evil.

I'm now mute/blocking these people who have lost the war to win a battle.

[melchar]

Agreeing with you - and very disappointed in those who will - to advance their own pride & petty desire for power - will sabotage any chance for a Democratic candidate to win in 2020.

The only thing worse than Trump in office is Pence in office. The country needs them GONE!