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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 18:50:00 UTC Robert McNees

   One way the post-Twitter social media networks remind me of that place in the early-to-mid 2010s, is that I see a lot of folks attacking a candidate who either supports or could be persuaded to support much of what they want, but not talking about how they're going to stop the guy who 100% will gleefully burn everything to the ground, not only preventing progress but rolling back a century-plus of what has passed for progress in the US.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 18:53:37 UTC Robert McNees

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     "But this is when we have power to make the candidate do what we want, by threatening to withhold our votes!"

     No, we're three weeks out. We have a chance with one candidate IF they win. Demanding unequivocal commitment is asking them to maybe alienate another constituency in a coin-flip election. All their intelligence is telling them there is zero room for error here, with razor-thin margins. It's not like they have a few months to try to win back a faltering bloc.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 18:54:24 UTC Robert McNees

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     It is stupid and it sucks, but it's reality.

     This is the point in the election where a united front is important, where we stop feeding people's doubts and creating excuses for them to not support the scenario where something good can actually happen.

     Feel free to think I'm cynical or a sellout or whatever, but I know the difference between having some chance and having worse than no chance at all.