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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

@calrcv.bsky.social It seems to me, this election has exposed the flaws in the first-past-the-post system, and the inherent vulnerability of the jungle primary to manipulation by extremely wealthy actors seeking to field spoiler candidates. Now is the time for a ballot initiative on RCV.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The CA governor’s race has demonstrated a potentially fatal flaw in the jungle primary system. Fortunately, a relatively simple remedy exists. Ranked choice voting. Rolling Stone explained it well years ago. And better still, The Heritage Foundation hates it intensely.

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Ranked-Choice Voting, Explained in 60 Seconds

YouTube video by Rolling Stone

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Harris was just a bad candidate from the jump. Not letting anyone primary Biden was a terrible choice. And punching Left during a crisis with fascism is just self-destructive.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Not for nothing, mate, but I’d say “US dominance” has been on the way out for the last decade, and at this point, we’re just seeing the last of the gold paint peeling off…

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Ah, so to be clear, Trump’s $2000 voter bribe checks aren’t really socialism, because they’ll *only* go to American *working families*. So they misunderstand socialism, then start walking back their misunderstanding of socialism. This is sitcom gold. Archie Blunder.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

So Tim Kaine thinks anyone criticizing Schumer for the defections of the Treightors needs to “stay in their lane.” Huh. Remind me who Tim Kaine is. The guy who didn’t get elected Vice-President? He lost out to a carnival barker’s mascot, didn’t he?

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

What world even is this any more? I…I just can’t process this stuff anymore. I’m a LaserDisc in a Streaming world…

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Huh. So, the Republican ICE Gestapo has kidnapped the wives of over six _thousand_ US servicemen. Gonna be honest, if I were a base commander, and this happened to my people, I’d be outside the ICE concentration camp with a fully armed division, demanding their return. But then, I have a spine.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

So, once again, the neoliberal Democrats demonstrate their absolutely spineless cowardice, preferring to kneel before a fascist instead of standing for the American people. But, what else could we expect? Character? Conviction? Bah, humbug! Such things might empower the laboring class!

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I love the fact that @whitehouse-47.bsky.social is so shook by the way his whole agenda got dick-slapped on Tuesday, that he feels compelled to try bribing the electorate with our own tax money. Isn’t that ‘soshulizum,’ Donnie?

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Again, he is wrong. I’m not excusing him. I’m simply acknowledging his sincerity.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Bob is easy enough to understand. He isn’t a revolutionary. He does understand the problems of concentrated wealth and power, and he sincerely (but incorrectly) believes that it may be overcome without the threat of popular violence.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This is valid, and worth keeping in mind. Still, the first step is getting the electorate to see that better things are possible. Now Mamdami has to keep them engaged & motivated, to move the ball on the agenda. I choose to remain cautiously hopeful.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The fact is, American propaganda has been focused on demonizing any opinion other than capitalism for the last hundred years, and public ignorance serves capital interests; the uneducated are easier to manipulate & control. Always follow the money.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Oh, I’m certain the capital interests will try to do it for him. They’re thoughtful that way. 😀

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Things are long overdue for an overhaul. When the system was initially established, it made some sense. (Not much, but there was a fig leaf) Today, however, it serves only to protect the interests of wealth.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This all goes back to the ‘Third Way’ cabal that took over the Party after 1980. They sold their souls for corporate sponsorship, and are now terrified of losing it. It’s just greed, greed, and more greed.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

VA & NJ are indicators that Republican gerrymandering is not going to let them walk it in. But Mamdami’s win in NYC should be telling you where the energy is for policy, Pete. The people want Rooseveltism back. ‘Third Way’ corporate servitude is dead.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

¿Porque no los dos? Let’s be honest, weaponized incompetence is a thing.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

He was one voice among many. The great man theory of history is garbage. Prop 50 is a necessary and insufficient measure against the regime, and the idea that handing power over to someone who will not change the capitalist status quo is somehow going to prevent a repeat is naive.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It’s primarily a generational divide. The financial crisis in 07-08 showed entire generations the myth of capitalist prosperity for what it is. Many of the younger generation sought answers to why their families were suffering. Minsky & Marx illuminated the truth for them.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Newsom is a capitalist pet, and will never run on the kind of policy that people want. He’s too deeply entrenched in the ‘Third Way’ cabal, selling his backside to private equity. The people want housing. Food. Medicine. Jobs. The people want Rooseveltism back.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The talking head shows tomorrow are going to be a bloodbath. Lotta ‘Third Way’ lap-boys trying to explain how Mamdami didn’t really win on policy.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

“They’re spending more to fight me than I would tax them.”🤣

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

In Socialist circles, the technical term is, “a pretty good jumping-off point.” 😁

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Karen…please shut the fuck up. Everyone is tired of this crap. Nobody is buying it. The Democrats ran a bad campaign last year, just like they did in ‘16. Take a breath, take a drink, get up, and get on with it. The people want proper FDR Democrats. Fighters, not photo ops.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

He’s kind of the big fish tonight. Everyone else matters, they are necessary…but Mamdami represents several big sea-changes. If nothing else, he shows where the energy is for economic policy with post-Boomer demographics. That’s going to rankle the ‘Third Way’ cabal & their bankster paymasters.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Hellenic Pagan Socialism for me, thank you, but I’m happy to help you build The People’s Islam, if only to make Mike Johnson literally defecate himself to death.

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melody @melodylee19.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

democrats don’t need to move center, give up on progressive values, or compromise on issues to win elections. Zohran Mamdami just proved it. all the “the democrats lost in 2024 because they were too left” people need to shut the hell up forever

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I wonder how many New Yorkers will form ranks and tell them to fuck off…

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

And if we in the US are very lucky - and diligent - we may get more like him.🤞🏻

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I would really like to see a study done to try and figure out what percentage of white men are voting based on what motive. How many are apathetic? How many are being vengeful? How many are motivated by peer pressure? How many don’t know their own class interests?

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Let’s say it plainly. The ‘Third Way’ cabal did more harm to this country than any other group in the last hundred years. We need the Roosevelt Spirit restored, with benefit of eighty years of data, scientific advancement, and a more inclusive and egalitarian society than ever seen before.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Or, alternatively, give people something to believe in, to vote for, and to work towards. Change is inevitable. Get comfortable with that, or get left behind. That’s the reality.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The first step is just convincing the people that something better is possible. Now begins the second step: getting them to sustain the effort, and keep showing up.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sort of. The capitalist class has spent 160 years demonizing Marx and engaging in propaganda to keep the laboring class from understanding Marx and developing class consciousness. Particularly in the USA.

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ComradeCalifornia, Socialist Archmage🏳️‍⚧️🏴🚩 @comradecalifornia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

@whitehouse-47.bsky.social Tick tock, Donny. Virginia going blue doesn’t bode well for those newly vulnerable districts in Texas. I wonder how that will feel. Being the man responsible for turning Texas blue.

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