“if we fuck up our primaries, I’d still rather vote for a mediocre centrist by US standards, than allow what would likely turn out to be an actual factual Nazi to come to power through inaction/further bad choices.”

“ACKSHUALLY you’re on the right!”

“clown” – my default response when some fuckwit from .ml starts purity testing about leftism. Hi, by the way, you do realize you’re the exact kind of dipshit the OP is complaining about, right? Why are you even here?

“I’m gonna pretend like you didn’t just call me a clown, and tell you what you already know, that Gavin Newsom sucks; but that because you’re voting pragmatically instead of based on What I Think True Leftism Is, I don’t like you and therefor I’m right and you’re wrong” – and while subtly implying I don’t know political theory, that’s cute. I like your moxie.

>I proceed to explain why you’re a clown, that this country’s elections do not operate in a way that will result in anything better than “the least bad choice” being the correct way to vote until we reform how our elections work.

>instead of taking this moment to reflect on what I actually said in my first comment – I even just re-wrote a summary of it, first line in this comment, keep up sport – you decide to divert into “g-genocide!! newsom bad!! y-you’re still on the right if you vote for him!!!”

… I know he’s bad, you breathtakingly dumb fuck. Ideally, primaries will mean I don’t have to. But I live in the real world, and here in the real world, we run the candidate that wins the primary, and frequently our primaries are won by the exact kind of person Gavin Newsom is. Which is terrible, but still better than Trump (and I shudder to imagine how he could be worse).

>followed by a bit of Image

>you think this is somehow dunking on me.

Man, I’d hate to see your performance when you think you’re losing.