• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    So…

    A super Pac said they’d withhold money. That doesn’t change the part immediately before your quote:

    The decision comes after a state party review of the convention’s voting process revealed “substantial failures,” including issues with the electronic voting system that resulted in an undercount of 176 votes and the improper elimination of candidate DeWayne Davis. These flaws were deemed serious enough to nullify the convention’s results, according to the Pioneer Press and local reporting. As a consequence, the Minneapolis DFL has been placed on a two-year probation and must implement corrective measures for future conventions.

    This is Hogg all over again…

    The internal election was fucked up, and instead of ignoring that, the party invalidated it.

    Do you have any idea how long some of us have not only waited but pushed for a non biased party like this?

    This was always the goal. And of course we weren’t going to get to this point till progressives was becoming the dominant faction in the party. Neoliberals cheated right up to the day they got the boot, so by the time we have non biased parties, it’s gonna look like the same old bias if you’re not paying attention.

    And billionaires not wanting to talk about progress makes it pretty hard to pay attention

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      5 days ago

      This is still them being biases but using the rules to do it for them.

      She indicated that donors are uncomfortable contributing to the DFL if Fateh remains the endorsed candidate, and she has permission to process withheld donations should the endorsement be reversed.

      We’re again at we’ll take our money away unless you remove the problem

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        This is still them being biases but using the rules to do it for them.

        No. This is the party following the rules.

        When neoliberals we’re winning, biased parties wouldn’t listen to complaints.

        Now in the places they’re not running things, progressives are winning. Which means the person complaining is the neoliberal who just lost.

        If you think we should tell them to kick rocks and now we’re going to be corrupt just like neoliberals were…

        It won’t take very many election cycles before corrupt politicians start winning primaries again.

        The only way a neoliberal wins a primary is if it’s biased. Keeping them unbiased may result in some speed bumps like this, but it still results in progressives going to the general and winning.

        I just don’t see any logical reason to be against how this was handled. Just purely emotional reasons that in the long run will hurt all of us.

        Quick edit:

        We’re again at we’ll take our money away unless you remove the problem

        If you’re going to check your mailbox and a crackhead says he’s your king and he demands you check the mail…

        Would you not check the mail because a crazy person told you to do something you were literally already doing?

        Cuz again, I don’t see any logic behind that decision