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]

Oops... sorry. Hadn't seen the followups by the time I wrote mine.

Yeah... "scraping by" (ffs)

J

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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