• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wanna know how to pressure the DNC to pick a candidate you like? Go fucking vote for them in the primary!

    Typically, the primaries get 1/10th the turnout of the general election. That means that a very small number of people can sway the primary. Go stump for your candidate. Make phone calls, talk to your family and friends and community, explain why your candidate is the better choice.

    The lack of a primary in 2024 was fucking awful, but guess what? Chances are, there is a primary going on for your state right now, get to work!

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      2 months ago

      Try telling that to someone who supported Bernie, but before you do that you might want to go back and refresh youself on what happened. The DNC is a diseased carcass, change isn’t possible.

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        2 months ago

        Before I consider this complaint, I need you to go back, and get the primary results from the 2016 DNC primary and post them here.

        I know what the results are, but I need to know that you know before we discuss further.

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          2 months ago

          Do you really think the vote results of a corrupt election somehow make that election not corrupt? How are we still having this stupid ass argument in 2026?

          I guess Putin really does have 88% support in Russia. That’s what the vote says after all, so it must be true.

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            2 months ago

            Are you saying that Bernie got more votes in the primary than Hillary, and the DNC manipulated the votes to make Hillary win?

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              2 months ago

              No, I’m saying the election itself was corrupted in order to feed the victory to Hillary. Superdelegates, DNC-run smear campaigns, election rigging by limiting debates to reduce the visibility of the outsider. Accusations of sexism simply for not supporting the candidate with a vagina.

              Manipulating votes is not the only way to rig an election, you can do a lot just by manipulating the voters themselves. The DNC admitted to this, they didn’t have to run a fair election. So stop pretending the end result of a blatantly corrupt process justifies the process.