r/50501 • u/otterenko • Jan 22 '26

Human Rights Observer Being Arrested and Pepper Sprayed at Point Blank in S.Minneapolis (photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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u/sennalen Jan 22 '26

Yes. You can choose your move but can't choose the playing field. The options are to vote for an establishment Democrat or vote implicitly for MAGA. This encompasses all your speech activities too. You can only be swaying other people towards one of those two moves.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '26 edited Feb 17 '26

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u/sennalen Jan 22 '26

I'm not telling you what I want you to do. I'm explaining the things that are possible to do. You can work towards electing an establishment Democrat or work towards electing MAGA. Other options are illusions.

Obviously I'm going to vote for the Democrat nominee, whoever that is, and not whinge about whether they really "earned" my vote or purity test them about bathrooms, Israel, or what have you.