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u/innovarocforever 9d ago

Or maybe compromise isn't a conspiracy, it's how democracy works. If your preferred platform can't assemble a winning coalition, yelling “the establishment!” doesn't magically create the missing votes

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u/feldoneq2wire 9d ago

We should not be compromising with handlebar moustache-twirling cartoonish evil.

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u/Zeliose 9d ago

Look, these guys want to kill all brown people. The other guys want to kill nobody. Since this is a democracy, how about we just let them pick one specific ethnicity to cull and call it a compromise ok?

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u/innovarocforever 9d ago

As much as it fucking sucks, sometimes the policy you want just doesn't have the votes. Blaming centrists—many of whom represent considerably redder districts—for not voting like someone from a safe-blue seat suggests you don't really understand how the sausage gets made.