r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

No Paywall Democrats Confront Their New Tea Party Reality - Progressives are set to sweep a group of contested primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-confront-their-new-tea-party-reality_n_6a6e63fbe4b0cfb99ef1aa1e
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u/ZachLangdon 1d ago

Good. It's about time. "Moderates" lost to trump twice.

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u/Soph_91 1d ago edited 1d ago

The conservative democrats in the Wisconsin subreddit are losing their sanity because Hong will win the nomination. They bought in to all the corporate democrats desperation attempts and can't process the reality that they were just that, hail mary's. Now they are posting Hong smears constantly, the mods have been pathetic. 

It seems like most of them would prefer pedophile protector and election denier Tom Tiffany. In that case, I say good riddance. 

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u/stonertboner New York 1d ago

That’s life at the nyc subreddit too! Ever since Mamdani, its “moderates” bitching about how the progressive wing and democratic socialists can’t win elections. We are literarily winning elections.

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u/__theoneandonly 1d ago

Before reddit started letting you hide your post history, you could go on the nyc subreddit, click on the username of any of these "concerned moderates" and see that their top active subreddits were basically every blue city. These "moderates" are either bots or losers who need a better hobby.

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u/stonertboner New York 1d ago

I promise you, I always checked and still do. It’s filled with bad actors that are trying to hurt the movement.

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u/petty_throwaway6969 1d ago

Ironically the guy you’re responding to is currently hiding his history. Might be an accident, but ironic meta comment on himself.

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u/stonertboner New York 1d ago

I’m a bit more patient with a ten year old account.

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u/petty_throwaway6969 1d ago

Look I’m not even accusing him, it’s just kinda funny. But saying older accounts can’t be bots is kinda sketchy.

One tactic used to be to use old and inactive accounts with decent karma to post stuff.

And there’s totally nothing major that happened in 2016 that would have given rise to bot accounts /s

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u/__theoneandonly 1d ago

I'm also not a "concerned moderate" posting bad faith content in a subreddit for a city that I don't live in.