Outrageous! As a liberal from LA who is also the leader of antifa and worked under Bernie and AOC i am sickened. I don't see why it would matter. Unless the Gop is running a progressive, and even then it would be iffy, I don't think they'd win in LA anyway.
As a very real Republican, I'm perfectly fine with this. I can see how I must now pick my least not-favorite liberal in order to protect this democracy that I constantly claim to support. I believe laws apply equally.
Usually the Republicans consolidate their candidates before the California primary so they get one in the runoff. It's a sadly consistent 30ish percent.
Interesting. But they always lose to the establishment dem anyways, and in this election they'll just vote for them over the progressive, so nothing's likely to be different...
Yeah, it’s very blue and has high voter turnout, the whole of Dane county even
Overall Wisconsin is a pretty purple state
Edit: the state was also horribly gerrymandered after the 2010 midterms until recently. It has been turned around due to wins in the Supreme Court. Currently it is 4-3 left vs right leaning justices, but on August 1 Chris Taylor will replace Rebecca Bradley making it 5-2. Ziegler is next in 2027 meaning it could be 6-1
Wisconsin is historically left-leaning. The Republican party was founded here by abolitionists in response to the expansion of slavery. Milwaukee had a few Socialist mayors before the Cold War.
It's a purple state now, but that's only because we're gerrymandered to hell. Most cities tend liberal, but Madison is on another level.
I had to look her up, but Lisa Cusack is Chairwoman of the California Republican 44th Assembly District. Anybody who sends her a text message like this is going to expect it will be posted publicly.
Also, we here in the West use "liberal" as a synonym for "left wing", but in the rest of the English speaking world, "liberal" is closer to "libertarian", and basically refers to a "conservative". This is why I suggest that we stop using the word "liberal" to describe left wing people. But regardless, her "liberal friend" may think they can say they're liberal without technically lying here, even though they're conservative... but it's probably just a lie. There probably is no friend at all.
I seriously doubt Lisa Cusack has any actual left wing friends, but if she does, none of them would send her a text message that could only be used to help her push Republican propaganda.
Liberal is nothing like libertarian except they are both capitalist (ignoring that libertarian and anarchist were synonymous). Liberal refers to social spending to prevent people from complaining about the inequality of capital ownership while conservative means winner-take all with little to no bread and circuses and a hierarchical worldview.
I saw another of your comments was talking about jelly using the American meaning, so I will assume you are from the Americas. When I was talking about the meaning of "liberal" in the rest of the English speaking world, I was not referring to the Americas or the Western hemisphere, which is the area you seem to be familiar with.
I think everybody on the English Isles and everyone in Europe who speaks English. It's an extremely common second language in Europe.
(I said "English speaking world", not "English speaking countries", by the way. Based on your downvoting me, I'll assume that you're trolling and intentionally misstated what I said, and that you didn't just misunderstand due to your poor grasp of what I assume is your native language.)
The context being they’re friends, it’s very abnormal to string that many points of self description in a niche context if someone’s your friend they know these things
Wow, guess we use different apps. Ok
My incoming SMS are always colored, and my outgoing are always in grey. To me the screenshot looks staged/outgoing.
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what is this even in reference to? what is our "liberal Democrat friend" also livid about?
Oh, the mayoral election in LA. The republicans nominee came in third and won’t be moving on. It will be two democrats battling it out.
Outrageous! As a liberal from LA who is also the leader of antifa and worked under Bernie and AOC i am sickened. I don't see why it would matter. Unless the Gop is running a progressive, and even then it would be iffy, I don't think they'd win in LA anyway.
Also of note, the results came out a week after the primary so Republicans are on their "stop the steal", "stolen election" sore loser bullshit again
As a very real Republican, I'm perfectly fine with this. I can see how I must now pick my least not-favorite liberal in order to protect this democracy that I constantly claim to support. I believe laws apply equally.
As if it would be any sort of contest to have a Dem vs GOP race in LA. This way the general election might not be a foregone conclusion.
Isn't that not even uncommon for Cali? Anyways def a fake text, no reason to be "livid" and that's a republican-coded word anyways
Usually the Republicans consolidate their candidates before the California primary so they get one in the runoff. It's a sadly consistent 30ish percent.
Interesting. But they always lose to the establishment dem anyways, and in this election they'll just vote for them over the progressive, so nothing's likely to be different...
is it officially Steyer vs Becerra? Establishment Dem vs. Billionaire is not a great choice to have.
Not sure, I haven't followed it closely myself
Is Madison Wisconsin supposed to represent some liberal bastion of wokeness? Wisconsin??
Relative to the surrounding area, and possibly a lot of the Midwest, yes. I lived near there for a little bit, fun town.
Yeah, it’s very blue and has high voter turnout, the whole of Dane county even
Overall Wisconsin is a pretty purple state
Edit: the state was also horribly gerrymandered after the 2010 midterms until recently. It has been turned around due to wins in the Supreme Court. Currently it is 4-3 left vs right leaning justices, but on August 1 Chris Taylor will replace Rebecca Bradley making it 5-2. Ziegler is next in 2027 meaning it could be 6-1
Wisconsin is historically left-leaning. The Republican party was founded here by abolitionists in response to the expansion of slavery. Milwaukee had a few Socialist mayors before the Cold War.
It's a purple state now, but that's only because we're gerrymandered to hell. Most cities tend liberal, but Madison is on another level.
It's a liberal college town
I had to look her up, but Lisa Cusack is Chairwoman of the California Republican 44th Assembly District. Anybody who sends her a text message like this is going to expect it will be posted publicly.
Also, we here in the West use "liberal" as a synonym for "left wing", but in the rest of the English speaking world, "liberal" is closer to "libertarian", and basically refers to a "conservative". This is why I suggest that we stop using the word "liberal" to describe left wing people. But regardless, her "liberal friend" may think they can say they're liberal without technically lying here, even though they're conservative... but it's probably just a lie. There probably is no friend at all.
I seriously doubt Lisa Cusack has any actual left wing friends, but if she does, none of them would send her a text message that could only be used to help her push Republican propaganda.
Liberal is nothing like libertarian except they are both capitalist (ignoring that libertarian and anarchist were synonymous). Liberal refers to social spending to prevent people from complaining about the inequality of capital ownership while conservative means winner-take all with little to no bread and circuses and a hierarchical worldview.
I saw another of your comments was talking about jelly using the American meaning, so I will assume you are from the Americas. When I was talking about the meaning of "liberal" in the rest of the English speaking world, I was not referring to the Americas or the Western hemisphere, which is the area you seem to be familiar with.
Can you please name some of these non American non western hemisphere English speaking countries where liberal means libertarian/conservative?
I think everybody on the English Isles and everyone in Europe who speaks English. It's an extremely common second language in Europe.
(I said "English speaking world", not "English speaking countries", by the way. Based on your downvoting me, I'll assume that you're trolling and intentionally misstated what I said, and that you didn't just misunderstand due to your poor grasp of what I assume is your native language.)
I don't get it
The context being they’re friends, it’s very abnormal to string that many points of self description in a niche context if someone’s your friend they know these things
Also using "liberal" as a noun is a bit pejorative. Most people would say "I'm liberal", not "I'm a liberal".
Ahh. Thanks!
So nobody wants to talk about how the screenshot indicates it is a text message that was outbound, not received?
Literally every single text app I've used the past 20 years has had the incoming message on the left of the screen...
Maybe Lisa has her app set to Arabic. 🤷♂️
Wow, guess we use different apps. Ok My incoming SMS are always colored, and my outgoing are always in grey. To me the screenshot looks staged/outgoing.
This looks like how incoming iOS messages appear
It's the opposite for mine.
It's so easy to fake an incoming text that my first guess would be "different app" rather than assuming it's outgoing.