Graham Platner has traversed a long and unlikely road to become the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Maine. Can he beat longtime GOP incumbent Susan Collins and live up to the promise of his firebrand populist campaign?
You realize those are the choices though? You can depress turn out for blue candidates with your comments and help reelect the senator who put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, or you can try to help not do that. With our electoral system, it is a binary choice.
Uh hold on… I was under the impression that this so-called “Blue MAGA” were against Platner? I was called “blue MAGA” for daring to question the guy with the Nazi tattoo.
Now the person criticizing the person who criticized Platner is also “blue MAGA”?
Criticizing Platner is not blue maga. Blue maga is literally people saying “We have to vote Democrats to make America great again and if we don’t fall in line and eat the shit the Democrats serve us then you’re just as bad a Trump”
No, the establishment Democrats that are against Platner have been called (on Lemmy, because it’s not a real thing and it doesn’t actually mean anything) “BlueMAGA”
Might want to confer with your comrades to make sure you’re on the same page, bud.
Even just a little thought would reveal how ridiculous your “understanding” is. MAGA is a contemporary aspect of the GOP, that is to say, it’s disruptive to the Republican establishment, as we’ve seen. Therefore, why would Blue MAGA specifically refer to establishment Democrats specifically?
Blue MAGA refers to a tendency among Democrats to assert that we have to get rid of Trump and the Republican majority in order to make America great again. It asks people to ignore Nazi tattoos, duplicity, broken promises, and principles in favor of a theory of action that boils down to “vote blue no matter who and that’ll fix it”
It has nothing to do with one’s position specifically on Platner.
Blue MAGA doesn’t refer to anything because it’s a meaningless fucking term. Just stop.
I’m just telling you the reasons I’ve been called “Blue MAGA” on this site, and one of the reasons was because I questioned Platner’s Nazi history. That literally happened.
Maybe you’re the one who needs to think about it a little more… The Democratic party is not really keen on Platner (because of the purported socialism stuff, not the Nazi stuff). I said something along the lines of “I hope this guy doesn’t turn out to be a Nazi” or something, and I was called blue MAGA because I was lumped in with “anti-Platner establishment Democrats”.
But this was maybe before he became the presumptive Democratic candidate, so I guess now I’m only blue MAGA if I blindly support him as he DNC candidate?
Again, I’m not sure since the term is literally meaningless.
Don’t be MAGA-brained. Politicians with a D after their name can still be criticized.
You realize those are the choices though? You can depress turn out for blue candidates with your comments and help reelect the senator who put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, or you can try to help not do that. With our electoral system, it is a binary choice.
When Republicans say that about their candidates, we rightly call them deranged cultists.
When deranged cultists say that about their deranged cult leader we say it.
That’s not what’s happening here.
Don’t try to reason with blue maga
Uh hold on… I was under the impression that this so-called “Blue MAGA” were against Platner? I was called “blue MAGA” for daring to question the guy with the Nazi tattoo.
Now the person criticizing the person who criticized Platner is also “blue MAGA”?
Almost as if it’s a meaningless term
It is a meaningless term. But ml is a lost cause.
Criticizing Platner is not blue maga. Blue maga is literally people saying “We have to vote Democrats to make America great again and if we don’t fall in line and eat the shit the Democrats serve us then you’re just as bad a Trump”
No, the establishment Democrats that are against Platner have been called (on Lemmy, because it’s not a real thing and it doesn’t actually mean anything) “BlueMAGA”
Might want to confer with your comrades to make sure you’re on the same page, bud.
Even just a little thought would reveal how ridiculous your “understanding” is. MAGA is a contemporary aspect of the GOP, that is to say, it’s disruptive to the Republican establishment, as we’ve seen. Therefore, why would Blue MAGA specifically refer to establishment Democrats specifically?
Blue MAGA refers to a tendency among Democrats to assert that we have to get rid of Trump and the Republican majority in order to make America great again. It asks people to ignore Nazi tattoos, duplicity, broken promises, and principles in favor of a theory of action that boils down to “vote blue no matter who and that’ll fix it”
It has nothing to do with one’s position specifically on Platner.
Blue MAGA doesn’t refer to anything because it’s a meaningless fucking term. Just stop.
I’m just telling you the reasons I’ve been called “Blue MAGA” on this site, and one of the reasons was because I questioned Platner’s Nazi history. That literally happened.
Maybe you’re the one who needs to think about it a little more… The Democratic party is not really keen on Platner (because of the purported socialism stuff, not the Nazi stuff). I said something along the lines of “I hope this guy doesn’t turn out to be a Nazi” or something, and I was called blue MAGA because I was lumped in with “anti-Platner establishment Democrats”.
But this was maybe before he became the presumptive Democratic candidate, so I guess now I’m only blue MAGA if I blindly support him as he DNC candidate?
Again, I’m not sure since the term is literally meaningless.