As far as I know, she is the only Democrat challenging Joe Biden for the nomination.

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Marianne Williamson, who ran for president in 2020 and suspended her 2024 campaign in February, has officially reentered the race

Who?

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The psychic warrior lady

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She was widely mocked for saying “dark psychic forces”, but “psychic” just means pertaining to the psyche.

She could have equally said “dark psychological forces”.

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No, she isn’t. She lost in the primary.

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There was no primary.

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She’s advocating for Biden to be replaced in an open convention.

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I know. If anything they will nominate someone who shares Biden’s views, not some crackpot who barely got any votes.

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some crackpot who barely got any votes

She got about 3% of the vote (about the same as Dean Phillips, a sitting congressman and the only other challenger to Biden).

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Who funds this lady? This move does nothing but pull off the young liberal, doesn’t-understand-consequences-yet, and gets-their-politics-from-tiktok vote.

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young liberal, doesn’t-understand-consequences-yet, and gets-their-politics-from-tiktok vote

Well, the middle-aged “I get my politics from MSNBC and trust the mainstream establishment” liberals have all decided that they’re okay with supporting genocide, so I’m with Marianne and the TikTokers on this one.

Never again means never again. Fuck Biden.

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The world is so profoundly unfair and fucked up and throwing more vulnerable people to the wolves doesn’t fucking fix that.

This shit didn’t just happen. People ceded power to the worst of humanity for decades, and wrestling it back will be messy, slow and painful and unless you are getting on a plane rn to off Netanyahu, voting is the lever of power you have.

Defy me. Show me you understand the consequences of your actions and tell me how not voting blue in November saves a single life.

I’m all ears because Biden is a rich white guy in god’s fucking waiting room, you aren’t going to fucking punish him by not voting blue. It is all the women that will suffer and die from a lack of reproductive justice, it is the poor zip codes that will flood unchecked with posion into the air, food, and water, it is the lgbtq kids that are going to check out alone in some dark room rather than keep fighting against the system that wants to deny them their humanity, and it is the myriad of other preventable and pernicious indignities unfettered capitalism and christian nationalism throws the door open to, that will feed upon the underclasses.

Never again is a cheap and hollow maxim when you sit back and do fuck all but bemoan that the goddamn fucking angels didn’t come down and clear you a righteous path to do something.

Voting blue to help these people is an hour out of your day on a fucking Tuesday. You can knock it out while you grab some coffee on your way to meet up and plan the glorious revolution.

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tell me how not voting blue in November saves a single life

Genocide will stop when people stop supporting genocide.

If your argument is that there’s too few of us to make a difference, that doesn’t matter. The handful of Germans who dissented from the Nazis probably didn’t make a difference either. It was still the right thing to do.

it is the poor zip codes that will flood unchecked with poison into the air

And what about the hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza who are being bombed to death? And the millions more who are close to starving to death?

Sure, it sucks that Flint doesn’t have clean water, but it’s not really on the same magnitude, is it?

And I was an lgbtq kid back when it was literally illegal to be gay in my state. Again, not great, but it’s not the same as being bombed and starved.

You dare make appeals to compassion while turning a blind eye to genocide. It is absurd and obscene.

Voting blue to help these people is an hour out of your day on a fucking Tuesday.

If the Democrats want my vote, they can stop supporting genocide. It’s that simple.

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“Don’t be so stupid. When we said never again, we meant for white people.”

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Lot of people telling lies about the actual state of the Democratic primary in this thread.

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Why is some shitty author no one ever heard of who did a debate or two in 2016 being mentioned… Anywhere?

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