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LudwigPastorius

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73. Ask her how that worked out in the 2000 election.

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Thu Jun 23, 2022, 02:16 PM

Jun 2022

All those voters who pulled the lever for Nader instead of Gore really helped bring the revolution, didn't they?

"We have to destroy the village to save the village" didn't work then, won't work now, or ever.

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I had dinner last night with a very progressive friend of mine. [View all] redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 OP

Your friend is a moron. BannonsLiver Jun 2022 #1

Yes, a Rhode Scholar and an Attorney. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #2

Some of the dumbest people I've ever been around were great at academics BannonsLiver Jun 2022 #4

Exactly.. think Dr Ben Carson & all those Cha Jun 2022 #98

Great example Cha! BannonsLiver Jun 2022 #123

Here's another one.. Fuckhead's Lying Gaslit Press Sec Cha Jun 2022 #124

I've worked with high-dollar attorneys my entire working life... Raster Jun 2022 #9

Nope, she was raised by a single mom, she had nothing growing up. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #13

The far left "only we know how to fix it" is just as bad as the far right "we don't want to fix it" Raster Jun 2022 #22

So she is bright but not smart. DURHAM D Jun 2022 #10

So this high powered attorney won't vote Democratic dsc Jun 2022 #51

Well one wonders how she arrived at the conclusion that having everything go to hell is the way to Demsrule86 Jun 2022 #54

I've heard that before, from progressives. shrike3 Jun 2022 #75

Because everybody else is corrupt but they totally aren't. betsuni Jun 2022 #78

And yet, still an idiot. Happy Hoosier Jun 2022 #83

Excellent Point, HH! Like Sarandon.. Cha Jun 2022 #100

Ask the Russians how well their republic worked after Putin took power. SharonAnn Jun 2022 #89

Ted Cruz went to Harvard and Thomas Massey went to MIT... SKKY Jun 2022 #99

Ted Cruz isn't an idiot though . He puts on the act to appeal to the trash base JI7 Jun 2022 #101

Rhodes. Treefrog Jun 2022 #117

Sounds privileged, privileged are OK with blowing things up cause they get to watch not be blown up uponit7771 Jun 2022 #40

Please, let me insert a 'think' in there. Hugin Jun 2022 #58

AbsoFuckingLutely. Doesn't give a Shit Cha Jun 2022 #96

Did you ask your friend how she thought student loan forgiveness and universal healthcare... Raster Jun 2022 #3

Yes I went there. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #16

Wowwwwwwww. Just wow. :( n/t OneGrassRoot Jun 2022 #18

We already tried that with DISASTEROUS consequences. Raster Jun 2022 #23

+1 empedocles Jun 2022 #38

But, we haven't given Republicans complete power. Hortensis Jun 2022 #81

Having a 6-3 Radical Right on the SCOTUS will cost us damn near everything before the year is over Hekate Jun 2022 #94

:) Way overstated? We have enormous blessings to cherish and protect, but Hortensis Jun 2022 #109

Not overstated, imo. 28 out of 50 states have just outlawed abortion, many with no exceptions. nt Hekate Jun 2022 #119

Okay, just came back from shopping -- they're going to go after the Hortensis Jun 2022 #122

It definitely is a very stupid argument awesomerwb1 Jun 2022 #30

Then why aren't we even attempting election reform? TheFarseer Jun 2022 #62

If you wanted the evening to end wryter2000 Jun 2022 #43

Okay . . . gratuitous Jun 2022 #47

Literally sounds like the Jimmy Dore gospel ... Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2022 #57

That was Susan Sarandon's view: Trump et al will trigger "the revolution". JustABozoOnThisBus Jun 2022 #82

I Know People RobinA Jun 2022 #84

Classic "only I'm smart enough to see through the lies" bullshit. mathematic Jun 2022 #121

I'm sorry. it's mind boggling that they continue to blow us up and refuse to see it. onecaliberal Jun 2022 #5

Yes, you are right. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #8

They are just like the right when they're more interested in blowing up the place than actually onecaliberal Jun 2022 #12

Tell her that if she doesn't vote for the Dem candidate for POTUS, LuckyCharms Jun 2022 #6

The only "real change" your friend and those like her will create is more victories for highplainsdem Jun 2022 #7

That is what terrifies me. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #11

Yup. Straw Man Jun 2022 #14

If they "blow it all up" Timewas Jun 2022 #26

They don't inthewind21 Jun 2022 #36

Time to stop allowing the term "progressive" to be expropriated Just A Box Of Rain Jun 2022 #15

If you met her and asked her what party she was affiliated with she would answer "progressive". redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #25

It is sad to lose people to extremist mindsets. Just A Box Of Rain Jun 2022 #37

I miss the "old Ann", the one who protested the war with me. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #41

I truly understand where you are coming from. Just A Box Of Rain Jun 2022 #49

Thanks... redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #66

Unfortunately "blown up " equals Fascism crazylikafox Jun 2022 #17

And once we hit full "blown up" Fascism, it is almost impossible to return. Raster Jun 2022 #27

That's exactly why we have the Supreme court we have awesomerwb1 Jun 2022 #19

I'm sorry that your friend is braindead Hav Jun 2022 #20

Believing that "the system needs to be completely blown up" is a fundamentally romantic notion... Jade Fox Jun 2022 #21

Putin's propaganda pushers have focused on left heavily blm Jun 2022 #24

Your friend is a member of the Susan Sarandon squad of progressives peggysue2 Jun 2022 #28

Bannon's "populist uprising" of "Hispanics, African-Americans and working class people" betsuni Jun 2022 #104

If one goes far enough left, one begins to sound amazingly like a right winger. mn9driver Jun 2022 #29

I think I'm done. The last couple of times we have been together it as gotten heated. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #31

Such people make me sputter. nt LAS14 Jun 2022 #32

completely blown up... 2naSalit Jun 2022 #33

If serious seleff Jun 2022 #34

Sorry you're dealing with this. She sounds like the Left's version of ... Whiskeytide Jun 2022 #35

I sometimes wonder BlueSky3 Jun 2022 #39

One person does not make that statement true. SharonClark Jun 2022 #88

Please re-read what I wrote BlueSky3 Jun 2022 #120

This is one of the reasons Biden's approval nevergiveup Jun 2022 #42

They either vote for Biden or we lose everything. And I sincerely hope every last one of them Demsrule86 Jun 2022 #55

We see a similar stance from many around here on Joe Manchin Zeitghost Jun 2022 #44

In some ways those of us who are centrist don't feel as welcome in the party as we used to. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #45

That's two years away. H2O Man Jun 2022 #46

Uh oh, you're a moderate/centrist supporting the milquetoast status quo establishment corporatists! betsuni Jun 2022 #48

I haven't been hip and cool since 1973. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #67

At least you were! betsuni Jun 2022 #103

Wasn't the system completely "blown up" under the reign of King Donald?????? Tell your friend unless Vinca Jun 2022 #50

I say fuck your friend. She can call herself what she wants...I call her a Republican who also Demsrule86 Jun 2022 #52

She is not not and not a progressive and calling her that besmirches the rest of us. Demsrule86 Jun 2022 #53

I see her point TheFarseer Jun 2022 #56

We are screwed zipplewrath Jun 2022 #63

All of that is correct TheFarseer Jun 2022 #68

Minority contol zipplewrath Jun 2022 #69

it's called accelerationist. it's a thing. wisdom from beau of the 5th column- mopinko Jun 2022 #59

"Riots are the voice of the unheard" Sympthsical Jun 2022 #60

"Burn it down" is what gave us Trump. intheflow Jun 2022 #61

Cool story, bro. RandiFan1290 Jun 2022 #64

Yeah, I'm wondering Sympthsical Jun 2022 #90

Actually I've been hearing the same thing. ecstatic Jun 2022 #91

Indeed. nt BlackSkimmer Jun 2022 #111

I just got off the phone with her. redstatebluegirl Jun 2022 #65

The myth that the majority of Americans are secretly progressive populists, there will betsuni Jun 2022 #76

I'm really sorry. She sounds something, though, like the LW authoritarians Hortensis Jun 2022 #79

I fear that our left has been defeated but a Russian Political Technology Aroundabout23 Jun 2022 #70

A line in "Inherit The Wind..." Grins Jun 2022 #71

Where the far left and far right meet. sarcasmo Jun 2022 #72

Ask her how that worked out in the 2000 election. LudwigPastorius Jun 2022 #73

I hear exactly the same thing from my nephew who just graduated from walkingman Jun 2022 #74

She isn't a progressive. She is the usual fucking idiot JI7 Jun 2022 #77

That whole blow it up thing is something this hardcore, never been anything else, big L Solly Mack Jun 2022 #80

This message was self-deleted by its author traitorsgalore Jun 2022 #85

So she wants what would had happened if TFI had been reelected? LiberalFighter Jun 2022 #86

Your friend sounds like Susan Sarandon LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #87

"it was her opinion that the system needed to be completely blown up" brooklynite Jun 2022 #92

I lost a friend in 2016 over not voting for Hillary. Lunch, not dinner, tho. It's awful. Hekate Jun 2022 #93

You can be progressive, love Bernie and AOC, and still think Biden is doing well mvd Jun 2022 #95

What happened after "blowing it up" in 2016 wasn't enough for her? DFW Jun 2022 #97

Hillary tried to warn us LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #108

It DID terrify me. DFW Jun 2022 #113

The excuse why the revolution didn't happen: Teh Establishment will stop at nothing to thwart it. betsuni Jun 2022 #110

The Cliches are more prevalent than the truths DFW Jun 2022 #112

+1 (And others: I don't know how any of those people sleep at night) betsuni Jun 2022 #114

They said the same thing in 2016 and what did that get us? Trump Samrob Jun 2022 #102

my answer is too far down so you probably won't even see/read this orleans Jun 2022 #105

Blow everything up and let fascists take over? Germany did that once... CarlYasutomo Jun 2022 #106

Cool story! n/t Mysterian Jun 2022 #107

As a Lawyer, she should understand how incrementelism or precedent works to change laws haele Jun 2022 #115

Hillary warned us LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #116

I'm caught between relatives who feel like your friend and relatives who are Trumpsters. yardwork Jun 2022 #118