• Maeve@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      57
      ·
      1 year ago

      Greed, hate, envy, but cake will do. F the game, don’t let the game f you? Let them continue to fafo.

  • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    1 year ago

    Turns out most Americans really aren’t on board with the whole flagrant bigotry and bullying LGBTQ teenagers via capturing school boards thing.

      • MelodiousFunk@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        1 year ago

        This. I am in a solidly blue district. 4 out of the 7 school board candidates, ALL of the non-incumbents, were running on some sort of “family values” or “parents’ rights” platform. But their statements to media were highly scrubbed because they know to tread carefully and avoid the dog whistles. One of them unseated an incumbent (and the only POC in the group) yesterday. I’m glad the trend is going in the right direction nationally. But I wouldn’t call for a victory lap just yet.

    • Grayox@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Cause it isn’t decided by an electoral college and is harder to gerrymander against

        • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          West Virginia and Montana exist. Kentucky is a former deep blue state too. I think they just have to be DINO and contrarian. Not saying it’s easy, but growing up I wouldn’t have thought deep south Georgia would elect two democratic senators.

          • danc4498@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            I’m just saying it’s weird that a democratic governor almost always wins, but a democratic senator never wins. Seems like their senators are juggernauts. Maybe if they left, a democrat would stand a better chance.

            • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              Indeed. I haven’t written off any of these states, maybe not for next year, but in coming years… but then maybe I’m a hopeless optimistic.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    1 year ago

    They lost every local campaign. Every school board race had some skinwalker cloaked as parental rights and my fairly progressive city saw right through them.

    • Grayox@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      But but but the folks from lemmygrad told me voting cant do anything against fascists and I shouldn’t waste my time and should organize a revolution instead.

      • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.mlM
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Fuck the republicans, but if you’re only voting that’s not going to help you when these shitheads get to the point of dragging people out of their houses and disappearing them. All my girlfriends are getting strapped and organizing self-defense.