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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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RumorsOfLove lemmy.dbzer0.com RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#2 · Quote Reply

Watch out guy,s, new wave of astroturfing incoming!!!

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Zephorah discuss.online Zephorah@discuss.online
Joined: 2025-07-01
#3 · Quote Reply

Watch out guy,s, new wave of astroturfing incoming!!!

Yep. Powered by AI.

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Boomer Humor Doomergod lemmy.world Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-15
#4 · (edited) Quote Reply

Yay.

Election season.

People telling me to vote blue no matter who like I haven’t been doing that since I was 18.

And I’m fucking old.

Not to mention the arguments. People just mad everywhere.

I love politics and don’t hate this stupid game I’m forced to play and always lose.

What a stupid world.

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llamapocalypse lemmy.world llamapocalypse@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#5 · (edited) Quote Reply

Unless the candidate is a progressive, then the establishment Dems won't endorse them (unless the progressive wins, then suddenly they totally supported the progressive all along)

(no, I'm not saying don't vote, just frustrated by the fucking hypocrisy)

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TropicalDingdong lemmy.world TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-29
#6 · Quote Reply

"ANY BLUE WILL DO™"^*^

*Terms an conditions apply.

ANY BLUE WILL DO™ — TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By repeating, accepting, endorsing, or being shamed into the phrase “Any Blue Will Do,” you agree to the following Terms and Conditions.

1. Binding Obligation of the Voter

You agree that “Any Blue Will Do” creates a total, unconditional, irrevocable, morally compulsory obligation to support any candidate designated by the Democratic Party, its consultants, donors, cable news surrogates, or random accounts with flag emojis.

Support may include voting, donating, volunteering, defending the candidate online, pretending the platform is “actually pretty progressive,” and explaining to younger voters why asking for healthcare is helping fascism.

2. Definition of “Blue”

For purposes of this Agreement, “Blue” means any candidate, officeholder, nominee, former Republican, ex-CIA analyst, prosecutor, donor-friendly mayor, or person who has appeared on a Democratic ballot line.

Notwithstanding the above, “Blue” shall not include leftists, socialists, labor candidates, anti-war candidates, or anyone who causes donors to say “deeply concerning.”

3. Institutional Discretion

The Democratic Party reserves the sole, exclusive, perpetual, and non-reviewable right to decide when “Any Blue Will Do” applies.

This determination may be made before, during, or after the election; in a closed-door meeting; through a leaked memo; or retroactively after the wrong kind of Democrat wins.

4. Primary Election Exceptions

Although “Any Blue Will Do” may appear to imply neutrality among Democrats, nothing shall prevent the Party from promoting, funding, endorsing, defending, or quietly coordinating for any candidate deemed sufficiently Normal.

The Party may intervene against left-wing candidates through endorsements, donor pressure, debate exclusion, ballot challenges, super PACs, whisper campaigns, consultant networks, or sudden concerns about electability.

Such actions shall not violate “Any Blue Will Do,” because leftists should have known what the phrase meant.

5. Electability Clause

You agree that “electability” means whatever the Party needs it to mean at the time.

A moderate losing by six points proves the country is center-right.

A leftist losing by six points proves progressive politics are permanently toxic.

A moderate winning narrowly is a mandate for bipartisan austerity.

A leftist winning decisively is a local anomaly.

6. Vote-Shaming Rights Reserved

The Party, its affiliates, surrogates, influencers, and emotionally exhausted liberals reserve the right to shame, scold, guilt, condescend to, or morally indict you for any failure to provide enthusiastic support.

This right survives all prior mistreatment, broken promises, ignored policy demands, abandoned constituencies, donor triangulation, union-busting, war funding, anti-immigrant pivoting, or sabotage of your preferred candidate.

Your obligation to vote blue remains in full force regardless of whether the Party has made any effort to earn your vote.

7. No Reciprocal Duty

Nothing in this Agreement creates any reciprocal obligation on the part of the Democratic Party to support candidates, policies, platforms, movements, voters, unions, tenants, students, debtors, the uninsured, the unhoused, the anti-war left, or anyone who has ever said the word “material.”

The voter’s duty is mandatory.

The Party’s duty is aspirational, symbolic, non-binding, means-tested, subject to committee review, and likely dead on arrival in the Senate.

8. Platform Disclaimer

Any platform, promise, slogan, campaign speech, town hall answer, website bullet point, or “we hear you” statement is non-binding promotional material.

The Party may abandon, dilute, reframe, study, means-test, postpone, sunset, privatize, or blame the parliamentarian for any stated policy objective.

No voter shall infer from campaign rhetoric the existence of an actual commitment.

9. Leftist Candidate Contingency

In the event that a leftist wins a Democratic primary, “Any Blue Will Do” may be suspended, modified, inverted, or replaced with:

“We need a serious candidate.”

“This district is more moderate than people think.”

“We have concerns about temperament.”

“They haven’t built relationships.”

“The tweets are problematic.”

“This is not the right time.”

“We need someone who can win.”

The Party may further reserve the right to remain neutral, quietly assist the opponent, withhold funding, or discover a sudden principled objection to party loyalty.

10. Consultant Protection Clause

No provision of this Agreement shall endanger the sacred right of consultants to be paid millions of dollars to lose winnable races while advising candidates to say nothing, offend no donors, avoid popular economic policies, and appear in diners wearing rolled-up sleeves.

Consultant compensation shall not be contingent on winning elections.

11. Donor Supremacy Clause

In the event of a conflict between voters and donors, donors shall prevail.

In the event of a conflict between the platform and donors, donors shall prevail.

In the event of a conflict between democracy and donors, a task force shall be convened after the election.

12. Unity

You agree that “unity” means left-wing voters supporting the nominee chosen by the Party.

You further agree that “division” means left-wing voters asking for anything in return.

Calls for unity may be issued immediately after the Party has spent months calling your candidate unelectable, dangerous, unserious, divisive, unrealistic, toxic, radical, online, or insufficiently grateful.

13. Harm Reduction

You acknowledge that harm reduction is extremely important and shall be invoked whenever the Party requires your vote.

You further acknowledge that harm reduction shall not require the Party to reduce harm when doing so would inconvenience donors, police unions, defense contractors, pharmaceutical companies, fossil fuel interests, private insurers, landlords, or anyone described as a “stakeholder.”

14. Democracy Preservation Clause

You agree that democracy is on the ballot in every election.

You further agree that democracy may be preserved through ballot access litigation, superdelegate influence, donor consolidation, debate manipulation, primary interference, and stern editorials about the dangers of populism.

Any contradiction shall be resolved in favor of the Party.

15. Waiver of Expectations

By accepting these Terms, you waive any expectation that your vote, organizing, small-dollar donations, canvassing, or repeated emergency mobilization shall entitle you to policy concessions, appointments, accountability, respect, or basic recognition as part of the coalition.

You may be thanked in fundraising emails.

16. Amendment Rights

The Democratic Party reserves the right to amend these Terms at any time without notice.

Amendments may be announced by think tank memo, anonymous senior aide quote, cable news panel consensus, donor retreat, consultant Substack, or sudden redefinition of what “realistic” means.

Continued existence under Republican threat shall constitute acceptance of all amended Terms.

17. Enforcement

This Agreement shall be enforced exclusively against voters to the left of the nominee.

No enforcement mechanism shall apply to conservative Democrats, corporate Democrats, swing-district moderates, billionaire donors, retired generals, anti-choice incumbents, oil-state senators, police-union candidates, or anyone who says “kitchen table issues” while opposing the policies that would help people afford kitchens or tables.

18. Remedies

If you violate this Agreement by withholding support, criticizing the nominee, supporting a primary challenger, asking for concessions, mentioning Gaza, saying “universal healthcare,” objecting to means-testing, or pointing out that the Party did the opposite of what it demanded from you, remedies may include:

vote-shaming, accusations of privilege, accusations of Russian influence, lectures about 2016, screenshots of Supreme Court decisions, demands that you “grow up,” comparisons to Republicans, and fundraising emails addressed to “Friend.”

These remedies apply regardless of whether your criticism is accurate.

19. Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between the Democratic Party and the voter, superseding all prior hopes, movements, promises, platforms, speeches, donations, canvassing shifts, and moments when you briefly believed this relationship might become less abusive.

By proceeding, you acknowledge that “Any Blue Will Do” means any blue will do for you, not for them.

20. Acceptance

By voting, not voting, considering voting, discussing voting, posting, lurking, donating, organizing, complaining, or failing to clap loudly enough, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.

No purchase necessary.

No refunds.

Void where democracy is practiced.

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trainsrkool lemmy.ml trainsrkool@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-06-05
#7 · Quote Reply

no thnx, thats how you end up with bluemaga and the uniparty

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TheDemonBuer lemmy.world TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#8 · (edited) Quote Reply

I'm pretty jaded and cynical about the whole thing at this point, but I also don't have a better idea. Idk, just do whatever you think is right.

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amniotic druid lemmy.world PP_BOY_@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#9 · Quote Reply

Yeah no. You wanna know why so many progressives are getting nominations this cycle? It's because we didn't "vote blue no matter who" last year and the corpocrats are kind of realizing they're gonna have to budge to actually get people to the polls again. Vote for the person you... want to vote for.

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sik0fewl piefed.ca sik0fewl@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-07-06
#10 · Quote Reply

Unless the candidate is a progressive, then the establishment Dems won't endorse them (unless the progressive wins, then suddenly they totally supported the progressive all along) (no, I'm not saying don't vote, just frustrated by the fucking hypocrisy)

Don’t just vote Democrat, vote in the primaries.

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UnderpantsWeevil lemmy.world UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#11 · Quote Reply

Yeah no. You wanna know why so many progressives are getting nominations this cycle? It's because we didn't "vote blue no matter who" last year and the corpocrats are kind of realizing they're gonna have to budge to actually get people to the polls again. Vote for the person you... want to vote for.

It’s because we didn’t “vote blue no matter who” last year

You 100% fucking did. That's why Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger are governors.

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MyBrainHurts piefed.ca MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-09-22
#12 · Quote Reply

no thnx, thats how you end up with bluemaga and the uniparty

Why am I zero percent surprised that the account calling Ukrainians Nazis also wants to put the Republicans in charge?

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MyBrainHurts piefed.ca MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-09-22
#13 · Quote Reply

Don’t just vote Democrat, vote in the primaries.

Exactly. This times a million. We don't vote in primaries and then get all surprised that the Democratic candidates resemble the folks who voted in the primaries.

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fizzle quokk.au fizzle@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-11-21
#14 · Quote Reply

Yeah no. You wanna know why so many progressives are getting nominations this cycle? It's because we didn't "vote blue no matter who" last year and the corpocrats are kind of realizing they're gonna have to budge to actually get people to the polls again. Vote for the person you... want to vote for.

It’s because we didn’t “vote blue no matter who” last year

If you want to draw a line from not voting blue to more progressives getting nominations then you have to skip the inconvenient side effect of having a fascist child rapist felon as president who's not going to allow a free election.

Well done.

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tidderuuf lemmy.world tidderuuf@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-28
#15 · Quote Reply

Watch out guy,s, new wave of astroturfing incoming!!!

The establishment does not like your comment.

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Ellvix lemmy.world Ellvix@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-15
#16 · Quote Reply

"Would you like to be stabbed or punched in the face? If you don't pick one we'll go for the stabbing."

I hate it, but please vote.

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llamapocalypse lemmy.world llamapocalypse@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#17 · Quote Reply

Don’t just vote Democrat, vote in the primaries.

I figured that bit was obvious, I was speaking more towards the Dem leadership's hypocrisy. Again, absolutely not saying "don't vote both sides reeeeee"

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tidderuuf lemmy.world tidderuuf@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-28
#18 · Quote Reply

Don’t just vote Democrat, vote in the primaries.

Ya that's a problem I have in my neck of the words. Everyone complains about who is on the General Election ticket and they just shrug their shoulders about voting in the Primary.

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sunrisepirate piefed.social sunrisepirate@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-04-21
#19 · Quote Reply

Unless the candidate is a progressive, then the establishment Dems won't endorse them (unless the progressive wins, then suddenly they totally supported the progressive all along) (no, I'm not saying don't vote, just frustrated by the fucking hypocrisy)

Make sure you're pressuring the establishment Democrats in your jurisdiction and the people making campaign contributions.

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TheStrongestBoy sh.itjust.works TheStrongestBoy@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-06-06
#20 · Quote Reply

Get infinite Fetterman’s with this one weird trick.

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amniotic druid lemmy.world PP_BOY_@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#21 · Quote Reply

It’s because we didn’t “vote blue no matter who” last year If you want to draw a line from not voting blue to more progressives getting nominations then you have to skip the inconvenient side effect of having a fascist child rapist felon as president who's not going to allow a free election. Well done.

Didn't say it was preferable or even good, but it is the reason the DNC is tepidly allowing outspoken socialists on their ticket when just ten years ago they were collaborating with Trump to take out Sanders. They can sense that corporate support is going away and that their voters wont bother to show up if the candidates are no different than the last guy

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amniotic druid lemmy.world PP_BOY_@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#22 · Quote Reply

It’s because we didn’t “vote blue no matter who” last year You 100% fucking did. That's why Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger are governors.

Yeah, 2024, my bad. Spanberger is about as liberal as a Dem can be, she is not some ultraleft savior of the commonwealth btw.

T. Virginian

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sik0fewl piefed.ca sik0fewl@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-07-06
#23 · Quote Reply

I figured that bit was obvious, I was speaking more towards the Dem leadership's hypocrisy. Again, absolutely not saying "don't vote both sides reeeeee"

I was complementing, not contradicting 🙂. I agree.

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fizzle quokk.au fizzle@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-11-21
#24 · Quote Reply

Didn't say it was preferable or even good, but it is the reason the DNC is tepidly allowing outspoken socialists on their ticket when just ten years ago they were collaborating with Trump to take out Sanders. They can sense that corporate support is going away and that their voters wont bother to show up if the candidates are no different than the last guy

That's not my feeling.

If anything I feel like they don't really have any strategy other than being not-trump.

There's no cohesion or brand or message.

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terranoid lemmy.cafe terranoid@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2026-05-08
#25 · (edited) Quote Reply

The virgin Hillary establishment democrat neolib atheist cishet ally versus the chad vape and xanax addicted poly amorous anarcho-socialist non binary zoomer

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Ep1cFac3pa1m lemmy.world Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#26 · Quote Reply

Unless the candidate is a progressive, then the establishment Dems won't endorse them (unless the progressive wins, then suddenly they totally supported the progressive all along) (no, I'm not saying don't vote, just frustrated by the fucking hypocrisy)

Yeah didn’t the Democratic Party take credit for some shit Mamdani got done? Seemed pretty shitty since they tried to stop him from getting elected.

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DokPsy lemmy.world DokPsy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-18
#27 · Quote Reply

Exactly. This times a million. We don't vote in primaries and then get all surprised that the Democratic candidates resemble the folks who voted in the primaries.

Imo if you don't vote in the primaries, you've forfeited your right to bitch about the candidates on the general ticket

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Endymion_Mallorn kbin.melroy.org Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Joined: 2024-11-17
#28 · Quote Reply

It’s because we didn’t “vote blue no matter who” last year You 100% fucking did. That's why Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger are governors.

We had a choice between Sherrill and Ciattarelli. I think even in spite of how useless she's been and how she's been handling Delaney Hall, we made the better choice.

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Blibly lemmy.world Blibly@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-05-01
#29 · Quote Reply

Ya that's a problem I have in my neck of the words. Everyone complains about who is on the General Election ticket and they just shrug their shoulders about voting in the Primary.

"You mean I have to vote, and then vote again? Ugh, I wasnt even planning to show up to the actual vote. Meh...it'll all work out fine."

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Endymion_Mallorn kbin.melroy.org Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Joined: 2024-11-17
#30 · Quote Reply

Don’t just vote Democrat, vote in the primaries.

That would be a nice idea, but what do you do when incumbents run unopposed in the primary

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canniest_tod lemmy.world canniest_tod@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-30
#31 · (edited) Quote Reply

Fascists are scared of a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. One camp uses a degree of class analysis, while the other is aggressively identitarian and thinks class politics are the hallmark of a bad person who'll abandon marginalized groups.

Both rely chiefly on electoral wins to get the outcome they want. This alliance is a paper tiger.

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commie lemmy.dbzer0.com commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-08-05
#32 · Quote Reply

Why am I zero percent surprised that the account calling Ukrainians Nazis also wants to put the Republicans in charge?

they never endorsed Republicans

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MyBrainHurts piefed.ca MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-09-22
#33 · Quote Reply

"You mean I have to vote, and then vote again? Ugh, I wasnt even planning to show up to the actual vote. Meh...it'll all work out fine."

Or it won't and I'll complain online which is even better than voting, right?

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StarvingMartist sh.itjust.works StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-01-31
#34 · Quote Reply

Get mean vote green

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TachyonTele piefed.social TachyonTele@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-03
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#35 · Quote Reply

"You mean I have to vote, and then vote again? Ugh, I wasnt even planning to show up to the actual vote. Meh...it'll all work out fine."

If voting day was a holiday it would less of a problem

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resipsaloquitur lemmy.cafe resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe
Joined: 2026-04-14
#36 · (edited) Quote Reply

Yeah, they’re terrified of Fetterman, Manchin, Schumer, etc.

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grimpy lemmy.myserv.one grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one
Joined: 2025-10-04
#37 · Quote Reply

"ANY BLUE WILL DO™"^*^ *Terms an conditions apply. ANY BLUE WILL DO™ — TERMS AND CONDITIONS By repeating, accepting, endorsing, or being shamed into the phrase “Any Blue Will Do,” you agree to the following Terms and Conditions. 1. Binding Obligation of the Voter You agree that “Any Blue Will Do” creates a total, unconditional, irrevocable, morally compulsory obligation to support any candidate...

tl

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SpikesOtherDog ani.social SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
Joined: 2023-07-20
#38 · Quote Reply

If voting day was a holiday it would less of a problem

I have worked for companies that would rather pay out unemployment due to wrongful termination than give time off for voting.

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Danarchy lemmy.nz Danarchy@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2025-12-07
#39 · Quote Reply

Vote geeen for jelly beans (they taste the best)

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0ndead infosec.pub 0ndead@infosec.pub
Joined: 2024-12-15
#40 · Quote Reply

"ANY BLUE WILL DO™"^*^ *Terms an conditions apply. ANY BLUE WILL DO™ — TERMS AND CONDITIONS By repeating, accepting, endorsing, or being shamed into the phrase “Any Blue Will Do,” you agree to the following Terms and Conditions. 1. Binding Obligation of the Voter You agree that “Any Blue Will Do” creates a total, unconditional, irrevocable, morally compulsory obligation to support any candidate...

Ain’t nobody got time for that

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rumschlumpel feddit.org rumschlumpel@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-23
#41 · Quote Reply

The virgin Hillary establishment democrat neolib atheist cishet ally versus the chad vape and xanax addicted poly amorous anarcho-socialist non binary zoomer

Implying the zoomer isn't also atheist?

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LemmyBruceLeeMarvin lemmy.ml LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-11-07
#42 · Quote Reply

Siri define 'the ratchet effect'

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AngryRobot lemmy.world AngryRobot@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-11-08
#43 · Quote Reply

Vote geeen for jelly beans (they taste the best)

You mean Jill Stein, the lich who shambles oit of her crypto every 4 years to spend Russian money and steal votes away from the Democratic candidate?

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Røøk lemmy.world _lilith@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-12
#44 · Quote Reply

I'mma vote for the lesser of two evils. What I won't do is fist bump a republican liteᵗᵐ like they didn't torpedo every fucking progressive they could. I remember south carolina, biden was dead in the water and suddenly "centrists consolidated" and he was a fucking front runner.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.world SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-09
#45 · Quote Reply

"ANY BLUE WILL DO™"^*^ *Terms an conditions apply. ANY BLUE WILL DO™ — TERMS AND CONDITIONS By repeating, accepting, endorsing, or being shamed into the phrase “Any Blue Will Do,” you agree to the following Terms and Conditions. 1. Binding Obligation of the Voter You agree that “Any Blue Will Do” creates a total, unconditional, irrevocable, morally compulsory obligation to support any candidate...

I’ve seen less verbose comments from cowbee.

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TropicalDingdong lemmy.world TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-29
#46 · Quote Reply

I’ve seen less verbose comments from cowbee.

Yeah I probably need a better presentation, but as stock its got legs I think.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.world SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-09
#47 · Quote Reply

Yeah I probably need a better presentation, but as stock its got legs I think.

I know you wrote this whole thing yourself because that’s just who you are but it gives off massive ai vibes.

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TropicalDingdong lemmy.world TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-29
#48 · (edited) Quote Reply

I know you wrote this whole thing yourself because that’s just who you are but it gives off massive ai vibes.

Yeah I need to work shop it. Like the point was to be overly verbose, but I don't think the presentation works. I like the idea though even though maybe I didn't stick the landing. Anything in particular that gave off AI vibes? Most of this is just me regurgitating accusations I've made of you. Actually, now thinking about it, I should have slipped an easter egg in there for you to find later.

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Archer lemmy.world Archer@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#49 · Quote Reply

Oh boy, the Republican consultants here to depress Dem turnout with primary purity tests and doomscrolling have arrived in the comments

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foxwolf pawb.social foxwolf@pawb.social
Joined: 2026-02-02
#50 · Quote Reply

This makes me want to throw up

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SatansMaggotyCumFart piefed.world SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world
Joined: 2025-07-09
#51 · Quote Reply

Yeah I need to work shop it. Like the point was to be overly verbose, but I don't think the presentation works. I like the idea though even though maybe I didn't stick the landing. Anything in particular that gave off AI vibes? Most of this is just me regurgitating accusations I've made of you. Actually, now thinking about it, I should have slipped an easter egg in there for you to find later.

I bet if you asked ChatGPT to re-write the Apple ToS as a politically illiterate socialist critiquing liberals you’d end up with very similar text.

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