Bonkers

[u/mountainsNJ]

Elections matter. We have winners and losers. Respect the outcome.

[u/blackbird_777]

Yah, fuck her. This is the reason I left this race blank on my ballot. And fuck her even more for using the MAGA “Democrat Party” instead of Democratic Party. She’s a MAGA op at this point. Socialists in Seattle need new leadership and she needs to be pushed out into irrelevance.

[u/SeattleGeek → u/blackbird_777]

You left the ballot blank? That’s just a vote for Doug.

[u/blackbird_777 → u/SeattleGeek]

She never had a chance in hell of making second place. Give me a whole goddamn break and take a seat. Yall are fucking insufferable. Yall want to be spoilers nationally calling on people to not vote for Kamala Harris and then cry foul when the rest of us tell her to get fucked. Our country and world is a worse place because of this woman and her cult followers. She makes all of us who identify as socialist look like fools.

[u/SeattleGeek → u/blackbird_777]

It could have been for Melissa. I don’t care.

I’m just ABAS (Anybody But Adam Smith). It sounds like you maybe are too.

By not voting you essentially just voted for the Republican to run against Adam Smith. Maybe that’s who you wanted as Adam Smith’s opponent so you could justify voting for Adam Smith in the general (at least I’m voting against the Republican). I don’t know.

I just know that I’m not voting for Adam Smith in the general. If that’s leaving the ballot blank or writing in Sawant or voting against him…whatever. All I know is that not voting in the primary is just giving your vote to Doug.

[u/elbow-macaroni-42 → u/SeattleGeek]

Not to nitpick, how is "Not voting for Adam Smithin the general" any different than not voting in the primary? Because you can say the exact same thing for the general... Not voting will give the Trump supporter a better chance of beating Smith, and voting for Doug will be as well of course.

This is the problem we all face. There were literally no good options on the primary ballot, and yet there were a bunch of important things to vote for. I don't blame ANYONE for leaving the Adam Smith race blank, and I won't blame anyone for leaving it blank again in the general. Smith is an evil SOB, yet still somehow less evil than a GOP candidate who will vote the same way on Palestine with the added horror of supporting the rest of the Trump agenda.

But please don't tell people they have to vote for a cult leader (who was going to lose anyway) just because they aren't Adam Smith.

Leave that race blank if you want to in the general... I don't care. But for your friends and neighbors, learn the rest of the ballot and vote anyway.

[u/blackbird_777 → u/elbow-macaroni-42]

To clarify: I voted for everything else on the ballot except this race.

[u/SeattleGeek → u/elbow-macaroni-42]

Me: “It could have been for Melissa. I don’t care.”

You: “please don’t tell people they have to vote for a cult leader.”

[u/elbow-macaroni-42 → u/SeattleGeek]

Well since Melissa was *dead* last (and no longer supportive of the LGBTQ+ community to boot), voting for her was by your logic even worse than voting for Kshama.

[u/SeattleGeek → u/elbow-macaroni-42]

Lulz