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        6 days ago

        Yeah, just let him be VP for as long as he is useful. If hr wants, I’d vote. But better someone else like AOC who can look out for the present and future of our country. There have to be others like Bernie who can do good for us and not start wars.

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        6 days ago

        i dont care about his age, but his position on Palestine has always been weak and shameful. im not an AOC head, but im hoping for her at this point too.

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      I’d also vote for Bernie (VP or Pres.), still. But, I think there are younger progressives that could fill the role quite well.

      I’d even take someone more centrist for the VP role, since that might make it easier for them to attract (Super)PAC monies.

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        Yeah, there has to be someone out there who is presidential grade and not a total asshole or a party bitch. You know like “we’ll raise your taxes to build schools, but we’ll raise them triple to billionaires” vs “what schools? You look Hispanic we’ll send you to Honduras but after a 3 year sentence”.

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        5 days ago

        In this moment, any candidate who receives super PAC funding from corporations or Israel is a bad candidate.

        Centrism is dead. The right is dying. This is a time for moving towards socialism.

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          5 days ago

          We are still a FPtP system, you don’t get to write off the majority, if you want to gain political power through elections. Right+Center > 50% of electorate.

          Taking resources away from “bad” organizations, and using them for the socialist project is a good thing. The trick is not given them (as much) value in return.

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                15 hours ago

                Wow, what a surprise, someone who believes that two party politics is representative of the left/right of politics is wrong about things.

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                  14 hours ago

                  You don’t appear to have read the second source, which contains almost identical numbers for Left/Center/Right labels. That shows that (a) both of my sources are relevant because (b) in the U.S. party politics does track left/right politics.

                  In addition, you have still failed to provide any evidence for your claims.

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                    14 hours ago

                    Wow, you had two links that you made look like a single link then acted like it was my fault for not realizing it? Okay lmfao, very obvious good faith discussion right here, it’s definitely not worth my time trying to convince you by finding sources that clearly show that Americans overwhelmingly support socialist policies but do not identify with socialist or leftist labels because of a lack of political education.

                    You can believe whatever you want. Infosec.pub always has bad takes. I’m like 99% sure at this point that it runs out of Eglin.