• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 days ago

    Honestly, the playbook of getting an insignificant progressive elected and pinning real, imagined, and manufactured economic troubles on that official as a way of discrediting anything remotely left could work. However, being the mayor of the city of Wall Street is too symbolically important if nothing else.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      this article is basically screaming at his fellow conservatives “HEY! idiots! stop trying to interfere with the election and just do the normal thing we do of sabotaging leftists in power! doing what you are doing just makes socialism seem cool and dangerous!”