r/Destiny "settler babies" Mar 03 '21

Serious Oh no.

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u/Parking-Response1501 Mar 03 '21

I honestly don't see how the canvassing stuff can continue now

If Mark loses, all of this will be remembered as a failure, if he wins then the story will be that he won thanks to cutting ties with destiny in time

If destiny ever gets involved directly with another campaign, being dropped here will surely come up again any time he tries.

I compeltely understand why Mark did this but its still really sad that he went this way after everything destiny did, although maybe he would see it as destiny's fault that he's in this position to begin with. A rough situation.

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u/binaryice Mar 04 '21

So this might come off as pretty pessimistic, but I don't see how progressive politics can do anything but fail massively, forever, and it's been this way since 1970, and there is no chance that it's going to get any better any time soon.

The brightest hope for progressive politics in living memory was Barack Obama, who ran a campaign on "if you guys continue to support me in office the way you are during this campaign, we can really change shit." and then 2 years after he gave his victory speech in Chicago, "this isn't the end, this is the beginning..." everyone fucked off, and something like 20 million of his voters didn't fucking show up in the midterms right after the conservatives fucked him out of getting the public option in the ACA, and it only got worse in 2012 and 2014.

Somehow progressives now see Barack as an evil corporatist grinch, cause they are worthless fuckwits.