“What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”

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    1 day ago

    No, you don’t understand - if you can’t get a 110% perfect leftist president, you might as well just elect the next Trump to reinforce fascism!

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      14 hours ago

      Man ain’t that the damn truth. I’m so tired of that mindset that if the only tolerable option isn’t perfect, let the terrible option win. Just wtf.

      I get that we want to have a better system, but if people let the side that is intent on non-rich people having zero say or rights, we will be worse off than the imperfect solution. Really need people to quit letting perfect be the enemy of good.

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      23 hours ago

      She literally told you it is not about president, masters never changed. Now you understand?

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        20 hours ago

        Are you suggesting that, assuming magically Obama won president in 2025, things would be going exactly the same because “masters never changed”?

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          18 hours ago

          I am saying that I was disappointed long ago seeing my friends, colleagues and others getting fooled by politicians. At least their pink glasses were striped off. As the saying goes, it has to get really bad before we see changes. The only one right now who I am interested to watch is Mamdani, he seems pretty legit so far

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            16 hours ago

            Suggesting that Obama-equivalent would threaten allies with military takeover of land, tariff literally everybody fucking up the global economy, start supporting the enemy and rolling out the red carpet for Putin, or attacking Iran for absolutely no reason… is just flat out delusional.