Virginia House, that major state, where the r*tfcker thinkers of Southern fascism grew, is no longer Republican. By one vote. Voting matters.

[Mark Thibodeau]

Hey, guess what? The Dems had to win Virginia 55/44 to "win by a single
goddamn vote" in one district. To get a tie. Because of GOP gerrymandering,
they had to have a landslide... to score a tie.

Did you know that?

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 2:42 PM, <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It’s pernicious to suggest that minor political parties and candidates be
> barred from participating in elections, and especially worrying when it’s
> offered from an ostensibly progressive viewpoint. When, even if it could
> somehow be proved that it would have a demonstrable effect, do you apply
> the metric of necessity for marginal candidates to exempt themselves for
> the “greater good?” Just now in trump times, or as a matter of course?
>
> To my view when you win/lose by a single goddamn vote, that’s hardly a
> resounding affirmation or renunciation of either platform. Dems should not
> be patting themselves on the back for scraping by as the preponderance of
> citizens’ wealth is being gutted, environmental regulations dismantled,
> federal courts packed with literally incompetent sycophants. It might be
> just barely enough right now to run on the “we’re not them” platform
> against pedophiles and hyperventilating nationalists, but it won’t work
> forever, nor is it right. The onus is on them to appeal to the nation at
> large, not Jill Stein/whatever harmless half-crank politician wants to
> appeal to a hyper-minority to take one for the team.
>
> > On Dec 20, 2017, at 1:42 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> >
> > I would say you are a much more useful  than Stein when it comes to
> being used by those who would undermine the first amendment and continue
> fascistic wars of aggression and who want to revive McCarthyism. But I
> don’t support the use of personal insults like idiot, which is a
> meaningless word at this point with origins in the mockery of disabled
> people, which is the kind of thing that Trump does.
> > Jill Stein doesn’t like war, she wants health care for all and green
> economy. That is why she is hated. Tell me why those are bad ideas.
> >> On Dec 20, 2017, at 7:52 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey, Joseph Tracy!
> >>
> >> By your lights, would Jill Stein count as a useful idiot?
> >>
> >> Jerky
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Jill Stein wasn't on the ballot.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> >> Date: Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:02 PM
> >> Subject:
> >> To: Me at G <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/943211847465033728
> >>
> >>
> >
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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