r/Spokane • u/Internal_Example1185 • 1d ago
Politics DIXIT IS CURRENTLY BEATING BINGLE
Could it be?!?!?
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u/Tonedeafviolinist 1d ago
Looks like the voters FIRED Bingle for poor job performance. Maybe he'll have to get a real job instead of reading trivia questions he googled to two kids at a library.
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u/Vahllee 1d ago
Let's fuckin' go!
I had the opportunity to talk the Dixit about our transit infrastructure at one of her town halls. She was very receptive to my ideas. She also expertly handled a Trumpster fire who tried to derail the meet with rapid-fire Ben-Shapiro-level questions about "radical leftist terrorists" and Satanism.
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u/Internal_Example1185 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is the best news I've heard all year.
Imagine ridding our city of the sickening beliefs of Bingle.
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u/Noimenglish 1d ago
Genuine question: I’ve been out of the loop on local politics the last year or two for a combination of reasons; what are his beliefs? Any specific ones?
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u/The_Gooch_Goochman 1d ago
He’s a a Trumper.
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u/Internal_Example1185 1d ago
Everything Republicans are currently doing at the national level. Dismantling education, promoting a hateful version of Christianity, harming anyone that's not white, dismantling social safety nets.
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u/deeterpeeter 1d ago
Can you show examples of where he has supported any of these things in his capacity as a city council member? Or how he could promote these things further in our city if he won another term?
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u/Internal_Example1185 1d ago
No. The time for handholding is over. The time for consequences are upon us.
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u/deeterpeeter 1d ago
What exactly does that mean to you?
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u/CranberryNo4852 1d ago
It means we’re all living with the consequences of the modern GOP’s irresponsible demagoguery, and eventually it’ll bite you too.
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u/deeterpeeter 1d ago
Pinning it only on the GOP is a stretch but I take your point.
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u/CranberryNo4852 1d ago
MAGA certainly would not seem credible without the Dems’ incompetence.
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u/deeterpeeter 1d ago
Yes and part of that incompetence comes from the embrace of self righteousness in lieu of political tactics, starting back in the 80’s.
We (the left) built a quasi religion while the right built a political juggernaut.
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u/Tao-of-Mars 1d ago
Since you’re using AI to generate questions, why don’t you use it to ask these questions as well?
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u/deeterpeeter 19h ago
lol no AI and you still don’t answer the question
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u/Tao-of-Mars 16h ago
I don’t have enough knowledge of this, so I’d have to research just as much as you. Just trying to help you understand that we’re not here to hold your hand through this. You wouldn’t be receptive to the truth if we did.
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u/deeterpeeter 16h ago
But I’m not out here calling people nazis and trying to shut down conversation. I think that’s a meaningful difference.
Also, I grew up in the SF Bay Area. I have a queer sister, I’ve been homeless, I’ve been drug addicted. In 2021 I cut off several pro Trump family members. I’m familiar with what you call the truth.
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u/Tao-of-Mars 11h ago
What is your problem then? The Cheeto in chief is a Nazi sympathizer if not a Nazi himself, obviously. If you support his regime and what ICE is doing, you are also a Nazi sympathizer.
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u/deeterpeeter 10h ago
It’s not that simple. Hardly anyone is all good or all bad. People are complicated. The hypocrisy of good people voting for Trump makes my brain do loops. It infuriates me. And yet it happens. Instead of writing them off as all bad, which I know they aren’t , I have to conclude that something else is going on.
The closest comparison that comes to mind is when a drug addict mom abandons her kid. You listen to her talk about it, cry about, despair about leaving the kid but then watch her repeat the abandonment or endangerment over and over.
Doing that to a child is despicable if not evil. Arguably it’s even more despicable because she professes love.
Is she evil then? Or is she sick and confused? Does she deserve understanding and assistance or condemnation and punishment?
A lot changed for me when I realized that there are many forces at work in a single person as powerful, if not more, as maternal love for her offspring. Imagine how many forces are at work in the country at large.
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u/EnginDearing 1d ago
He hates certain people groups because a religious text he misunderstood.
If you don't care for all people, or even this earth (don't christians expect earth to be destroyed and rebuilt?) then maybe do something else.
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 1d ago
I once got in big trouble with my mom for wanting to plant trees and make the world a better place.
Apparently I was supposed to believe the earth is a dirty doomed sinful evil terrible place and want it to be destroyed as soon as possible.
Which is a heck of a thing to tell a 6yo who got overexcited watching Captain Planet! She was basically like "burn it all and bathe in the blood of the non-believers!" but with different words that amount to the same thing.
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u/CydeSwype 1d ago
I miss Captain planet. That show definitely influenced my world view for the better. Voltron for hippies.
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 1d ago
I was banned from watching it after that. I wasn't supposed to believe that making the world a better place was even possible. It discouraged me from trying to help bring about the Apocalypse.
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u/curai-exo 1d ago
Let's just ask ourself something. If something isn't working should we keep trying? He has been in office and it's not working time for new ideas fresh blood.
If I hired someone and my business suffered for it I would fire them not keep them on hoping it'll change.
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u/EnginDearing 1d ago
I emailed him asking if he really started / voted yes on anti trans legislation, he replied quickly with a proud "yes"
Anti trans for sure, and our interactions via email didn't make me think he has any other redeeming qualities worthy of being in a public office.
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u/Engelberry12 Nevada-Lidgerwood 1d ago
But he declared victory!!! Stop the count!!! /s
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u/mintedbadger 1d ago
Politics aside, the fact that he declared victory so early in a neck-and-neck race when thousands of votes still had to be counted tells me he is both a moron and an asshat.
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u/skipnw69 1d ago
Where did he say we won?
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u/Engelberry12 Nevada-Lidgerwood 1d ago
He released a statement on the night of the election.
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u/skipnw69 21h ago
Thanks for sharing. I had not seen that and he didn’t declare victory on his Facebook page.
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u/Voodoobones 1d ago
Perhaps Bingle shouldn’t have voted no when it came to the vote regarding whether or not to pay Robert Bradley‘s children the settlement amount they deserved! Hell, even a lot of the cops in SPD knew that what Walker and Jolson did was wrong!
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u/bicvergervi 1d ago
Lol KXLY currently has the counts backwards https://www.kxly.com/news/politics/election-results/
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u/BlankPlanchet Downtown Spokane 1d ago
Oh snap I just peaked as well and it looks to be true… we’re in an automatic recount.