Post by @hraegsvelmir@ani.social

2026-10-31 23:28 UTC

Kind of wild how it’s always radio silence from the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” brigade in comment sections like this, where you have a centrist Dem using their platform to bash a progressive or leftist candidate just a couple days prior to elections, but the other day I was seeing them elsewhere telling people that they need to shut up with criticism of Gavin Newsom already, because he is (according to them) the likely presidential nominee for 2028, and now is not the time for criticizing each other. Where’s the outrage and insistence that El-Sayed will be better than any GOP candidate, so we need to support him now? Oh, that’s right, that slogan is really just meant as a cudgel to punch left, I forgot we aren’t meant to think it really extends to dirty progressives and socialists. My bad.

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@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2026-11-01 03:41

Keep voting progressives in Dem primaries to replace Democrat old guards, and there will be no need for headlines about party split and the thought terminating cliché “vote blue no matter who”. Fuck centrist Democrats. They’re part of the reason that the US and the world are in this mess.

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@NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2026-11-01 03:56

Kind of wild how it's always radio silence from the "Vote Blue No Matter Who" brigade I'm not one of those guys and have my fair share of problems with them, but VBNMW around here is essentially "as a black man" rhetoric; you have self-proclaimed progressive who tell other progressives what they as progressives should do. What they feel about centrists is unimportant because there are barely any centrists on Lemmy and they get downvoted to hell. They could be saying the same stuff to them on platforms with any real centrist presence.

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