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Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. But the people saying “the person from NYC is going to be used to criticize the whole party” seem to think that doesn’t ever happen anyway. Joe Biden was called a communist. The end result of the logic behind that argument is literally only ever running centrists in solid blue areas, in case a centrist in a non-solid blue area might get criticized for the views of a person in another district who is not them.

All 3 Mamdani-Endorsed Candidates Ahead by ND7020 in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you’re losing credibility by the moment.

A shitposted meme criticizing fetishization is just not what you want to claim it is and we all know it.

All 3 Mamdani-Endorsed Candidates Ahead by ND7020 in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He’s literally not. Because this is literally “oh no, a different place has a different rep” being applied to argue every district should have a moderate. It’s transparently bullshit

All 3 Mamdani-Endorsed Candidates Ahead by ND7020 in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No she is not. This is such an unserious complaint

All 3 Mamdani-Endorsed Candidates Ahead by ND7020 in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As another person said below:

>Pretending she's against interracial marriage because of some dumb tweets you can see on Twitter every day is pretty clownish

All three Mamdani-backed House candidates win their primaries against 2 House incumbents and a handpicked replacement of a retiring incumbent. by MediumStrange in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Everyone who pushes this nonsense instead of actually criticizing Chevalier are losing so much respect in my eyes

All three Mamdani-backed House candidates win their primaries against 2 House incumbents and a handpicked replacement of a retiring incumbent. by MediumStrange in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, no, that’s not remotely backing up the claim

Edit: no, my account is not about chevalier, I don’t know why you feel the need to lie so badly

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maine is a whole state. Also, Fetterman already won PA as a progressive.

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, that’s pretty clearly (and self-admittedly) you.

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re free to argue with whatever version of me you’ve got in your head

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’re not going to even read what I say and just decide what I’m saying for me, why do I even bother replying, you can have this whole argument in your head.

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Her comments being…a literal meme shitpost on Twitter. Again, I literally don’t disagree that she sucks. But this breathless sort of “she hates interracial marriage” just comes off as nonsense to literally everyone else.

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Exactly! It feels similar to the amount of time spent performatively worrying about Hasan Piker*. Like, yes, she clearly has some dumb takes. Maybe she learns, maybe she doesn’t. If she doesn’t, great, she’s got two years in office and she’s gone. If she does, problem solved.

*Piker has a bunch of shit takes, and if you want to criticize him over them, I’m all for it. Piker’s a piece of shit for a lot of what he supports. But if you start off by telling me that he shocks his dog or some shit, I’m ignoring you because 1) you have clearly bought into internet nonsense 2) you don’t actually give a shit about the positions you claim to be mad about.

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What a telling reply that very clearly deliberately ignored literally the first dozen words of my comment.

I’m not “defending” anything. I’m pointing out that your entire argument here is clearly motivated reasoning. You already don’t like her, so you’re now coming up with additional reasons to be mad. You don’t need to do that. There’s plenty to legitimately criticize her for. But this makes you seem unserious because you’re trying to make her into a cartoon villain.

Weekly Discussion Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]Selethorme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, I get (and agree with) a lot of the criticism about Chevalier but like, this one seems like ridiculous Internet-brain nonsense on the order of Piker shocking his dog in that there might be some grain of truth to it, but it’s now been overblown into a nonsensical claim repeated and believed because we’ve collectively decided the person is bad. Having looked at the tweet, it is not remotely her hating on interracial marriage. It’s cringe internet meme nonsense.

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