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  • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    massive tax cuts to the rich, kids in cages, shit health care

    think about which administration do you want running the country

    same-picture

    good god the self-own. like at least list a thing that the biden admin reversed after taking office jesus christ

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      They mandated that the government not be able to call them 'aliens' anymore, they're 'migrants' (migrants that we demonize while raising the ICE budget and detain them indefinitely in camps)

      Biden pardoned a bunch of people convicted of marijuana possession (after they had been released to just 'clean their records', and they had to do the paperwork; also didn't apply to 'migrants')

      He...uhh...'reportedly' thinks Israel killing innocent Palestinians is wrong?

        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          Yes, my phrasing on that was odd; the 'pardon' was basically just expunging their records, but it required the people being 'pardoned' to fill out the paperwork for the expungement

          Also excluded anyone 'illegally in the US' explicitly

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Ok let's apply that to Biden's administration.

    It acted like COVID magically went away or became the flu, ended COVID relief programs, fought rail unions tooth and nail on a new contract that included improved safety regulations all while the blatant disregard for rail safety was on full display, stood by as the Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade and made decisions that greatly affected the right of POC and the LGBTQA community, whole heartedly feed an entire country (Ukraine) to the meat grinder to weaken Russia unsuccessfully, and is currently covering Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestenians by regurgitating Israeli propaganda and providing military and material support.

    Wow I really want these people to stick arounddean-smile

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    Show

    This should be all of our response to any comment such as this going forward. Make them squirm.

    • YourMom [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      Who are they? I'm out of the loop. Was thinking of voting for RFK JR just to be annoying but this might be better

        • Dolores [love/loves]
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          10 months ago

          nah obv couldn't speak for every single chapter but my local PSL doesn't do that

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          1 month ago

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          • Wakmrow [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Like I said it's a rumor. Whether or not it's true or intentional is immaterial, take the risk if you want.

            • Yllych [any]
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              11 months ago

              I mean it kinda is material whether or not certain rumors are true. where are you hearing this from?

              • Wakmrow [he/him]
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                11 months ago

                Just rumors. From people. I don't have any evidence. It's worth talking about so I brought it up.

        • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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          10 months ago

          Idk they catch a lot of hate around. There’s another rumor about sexual assault allegations at the national level or at least protecting perpetrators or something

          , at least locally they’re one of the most involved orgs. They’ve led a lot of community cleanups and several protests for Palestine which I’ve attended at least one of the latter that went off fine.

  • Rom [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Do you did Trump did anything during his presidency?

    Most literate liberal

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    10 months ago

    Please let that sink in

    Oh shut the fuck up

    They're both going to put kids in cages and gut healthcare, who do you think you're kidding?

    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      To be a bit more seriously, I'm not from the US but I'd be very careful. The MAGA movement might very well start rounding up trans people and whoever else they don't like. Something like a "Kristallnacht". They absolutely could turn the US into a fascist dictatorship. I hate the neoliberals too but from a tactical viewpoint you really should vote for Biden.

          • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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            10 months ago

            The U.S. is already a fascist dictatorship. It just has the luxury to have multiple parties of fascists. If trans people were to be rounded up, neither party would be interested in doing anything to stop it. We know this because literal children are regularly sent to privatized behavioral or conversion therapy camps that are essentially prisons, and neither party is very invested in shutting those down. So fuck off with your moralizing. Biden isn't strategic, nor is he vegetables, he's just a different brand of pop.

            • Vncredleader
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              10 months ago

              Yeah calling a man who is enabling a genocide "vegetables" is the most depraved infantilizing thing. How many dead Palestinians are needed for a healthy democracy meal exactly? That shit is pure evil

            • YourMom [he/him]
              hexagon
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              10 months ago

              Hey now, the democrats would absolutely use it as a way to fundraise and get elected. And then... sit on their hands and do half measures because the republicans are so mean and actually control everything! Ahh Lisa Slotkin voted with the fascists but you need to vote for her so the evil republicans don't control the senate! Oh wow, we don't have the senate, we just need more money and votes so we can undo all the damage!

          • TraumaDumpling
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            10 months ago
            CW to protect innocent comrades from ire entirely directed at the above poster

            literally kill yourself, comparing voting for a genocide-enabling, child-caging, wall-building, nazi-arming, abortion-banning rapist who is/was pen pals with Arch-Racist Strom Thurmond to 'eating your vegetables' is probably the most disgusting take i have ever witnessed, even from a natoid in the Great Satan. I will gladly eat any ban for saying this, please kill yourself and kill everyone around you, as many as you can, as soon as you possibly can, for the good of the world. If you understood anything about history, geopolitics, or the basics of logical thinking, you would understand the rage i am feeling right now. I wish you and your loved ones a very disembowelment. Happy Valentine's Day.

          • TheDialectic [none/use name]
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            10 months ago

            When the government starts treating us white people like they have always treated black people I will take comfort in knowing you and I are on the same rotting ship.

          • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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            10 months ago

            I live in a vital swing state, I will literally make it a point to spend election day playing video games and eating chips :D :D :D

            • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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              10 months ago

              Vote 3rd party to make libs mad. They're still mad at Ralph Nader after all these years lol.

      • hamid@startrek.website
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        10 months ago

        The US is currently a fascist dictatorship. Both parties in the US function as a single unit uniparty. Don't forget they repealed abortion rights under a democrat. The US legislator (Congress) is corrupted and captured and their supreme court is not different from Iran with religious fundamentalists that have lifetime appointments with power to review any case law. It literally doesn't matter. The Kristallnacht is coming and no voting will stop it, just like voting never stopped the German Nazi's. Is idea here to just have the Democrats win every election forever?

        • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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          10 months ago

          not different from Iran

          Hey, Iran’s had and kept abortion and trans rights for half a century, they never legalized money in politics. The US is so bad comparing it to something other than itself or the Nazis minimizes it.

        • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          While the GOP is definitely become fascist, the US and the democrats is a neoliberal plutocracy, it's different from fascism (= a belief in inequality based on an mythological and essentialized identity). Say what you want about capitalism but they don't give a shit about your identity as long as they can sell you things or exploit you. Fascists don't like capitalism because it's too egalitarian - they want inequality and classes based on identity not money.

          If you're an accelerationist you should also consider what the better tactical choice is to bring about a socialist revolution. Fascism is very stable and difficult to overthrow without the support of the military, and the technology to surveil and control people is much more advanced than in e.g. Nazi Germany. And you didn't have much of a resistance there either.

          their supreme court is not different from Iran

          I love the comparison to Iran's guardian council. To be fair their model of democracy / theocracy is build around resisting regime change / coup attempts from imperialist influences.

          • hamid@startrek.website
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            10 months ago

            Fascists don’t like capitalism because it’s too egalitarian

            ahahahahahahhahahah

            aaaaahhahahahahahahahahahahzahahahahahaahahah

            aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahhaahah moron

              • sammer510 [none/use name]
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                10 months ago

                I suggest you literally read anything. You haven't even read easy stuff like Blackshirts and Reds if you really believe that fascists don't like capitalism.

              • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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                10 months ago

                The entire point of fascism is class collaboration/subordination for the benefit of the capital owners, to suppress labor and stabilize falling profit rates

                It's precisely the reason Hitler was backed to the hilt by German industrialists

                Brain-dead liberals have always confused certain protectionist measures used by fascist regimes as "anti-capitalist" because many of them have been completely blinkered by the exploded neoclassical conception of capital accumulation, while they ignore the unprecedented privatization campaigns of every fascist regime

                Liberals are forced to believe in a fantasy version of capitalism and then stare in disbelief when the fascists turn out to be more efficient capitalists than they ever were

          • Vncredleader
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            10 months ago

            Fascists absolutely want classes based on money. Fascism was devised as the union of labor and capital. Mussolini and the Syndicalists wanted to use national identity to "resolve" class contradictions, not make classes into national identities.

          • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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            10 months ago

            fascism

            egalitarian

            Fascism is an ideology that is practically defined by a constant search for an Other, an outgroup, an underclass it can use as scapegoat. It is literally in a perpetual state of eating its own tail

            Genuinely one of the most baffling things I've seen a Lemmyite post here

          • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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            10 months ago

            Even allowing the distinction, the Democrats fuel fascism by funding far right Republican candidates and fear-mongering over immigrants, China, etc. Capitalists will typically side with fascism to defeat socialism because it allows (most of) them to maintain their status. And fear-mongering about foreigners gives them a scapegoat and distracts from domestic problems, while justifying the corrupt military-industrial complex which allows transferring public funds into private hands. The Democrats are 100% fascist enablers.

          • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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            10 months ago

            fascism = a belief in inequality based on an mythological and essentialized identity

            Wrong.

            Fascism is open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.

      • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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        10 months ago

        Hi

        Several US states basically have trans laws that amount to rounding up trans people already, these laws passing within the last year or two

        Who's the current sitting president again? What party does he represent?

      • farting_weedman [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        If only more people had voted for Hindenburg, he would have won the election and Hitler would have never come to power.

        • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
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          10 months ago

          Hindenburg was representing an institution more like the supreme court, similar to how the liberals on the supreme court in the US are currently doing mental gymnastics to allow an insurrectionist to run for president, he allowed Hitler to grab power. I get the joke but it's actually relevant in another way - failure to oppose fascism by well meaning (or edgy) people.

          • Vncredleader
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            10 months ago

            Never have I seen someone let Hindenburg off so easily. So what you are saying is you should vote to oppose fascism......so that the institution can then let them into power anyways? Hindenburg WON and he still put Hitler in power. So why vote Biden exactly?

          • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]
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            10 months ago

            My sibling in christ if you let a fascist come to power you are not "well meaning". The fact that you would even say something so silly implies that facisism is as unthreating to you as it was to them. In your failed attempt to defend voting for liberals to "prevent fascism" you explained exactly why voting for liberals will do nothing to prevent fascism just like it failed in Germany.

          • farting_weedman [none/use name]
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            10 months ago

            In what way was the President of the Weimar Republic representing an institution more like the Supreme Court?

              • farting_weedman [none/use name]
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                10 months ago

                Hindenburg put Hitler up as a choice for chancellor and then appointed him chancellor.

                That’s a little different than what you’re suggesting.

                Throughout the history of the Weimar Republic there are many examples of presidents using their emergency powers in big ways.

                I think saying that president is a figurehead position with no real power is pretty indefensible. We have well documented examples of presidents wielding lots of power and the specific one we’re talking about famously used his political power to put Hitler next in line.

                It’s doubly damning that you’ve brought this up as a defense of voting for Biden when one extremely shallow but nonetheless true reading of the events after Hindenburgs election is “don’t elect senile politicians to office if you want to defeat fascism!”

      • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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        10 months ago

        What make you think that the party who is already rounding up ethnic minorities in camps as we speak would do anything against the Republicans rounding up LGBTQ+ peoples in camps?

      • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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        10 months ago

        I am in the US and this is how can show you, the Republicans will make things worse as fast as they can while they are in power, while the dems will slow down to a much slower pace, but will do nothing to make anything better, they also will not stop anything bad from happening, they just will not activly do anything evil or terrible. A trans friend of mine put it this way, the Dems get you to vote for them by putting a gun to your head and saying they are your only choice.

        It gets worse once you find out that the Dems are some of the biggest donners to the far right congresional canidates, because they think they are easier to beat.

        At the end of the day the only REAL difference between the 2 is rhetoric, and maybe 2 years max, and I think I am being genorous by saying that we can get 2 years more out of the dems. Both votes will lead to the same facist hell hole, its just what can of paint I want, and how I want it to happen

          • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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            10 months ago

            If you aren't aware then shut the fuck up. The Democrats are more unhinged than they've ever been because even the incredibly milque-toast socdem alternative was beaten with a stick and then paraded around on an apology tour. The train has no brakes, stop telling us that if we change the conductor it will matter.

          • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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            10 months ago

            The Dem's "pied piper" strategy is responsible for Trump's first term. Yeah, sure it "paid off" by ratcheting up the extremism from that party's candidates at every level every cycle, while the empire collapses, guaranteeing they'll eventually ascend to power over us...

          • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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            10 months ago

            Trump is not the only issue, when trump dies there will be some other facist to take his place. and while I see your point, and understand where you are coming from, where I am sitting, the "delay" path is not a significant delay, as I said I see 2 years, and the question I have to ask myself is "Can we develop significant class contiousness or change within the 2 years to make a difrence" and from what I am seeing the answer is no, So my next question is, can I reward the Dems for there reckless behavior, and I also do not know if I can, they are coercing my vote, by the exclusive fact the other side is SO BAD, dispite the fact that materialy they are not much better. Matters get worse when you take into accound that a study out of prinston shows that my vote, or the outcome of all the votes and the want of all americans, does not effect the direction of the country, OR the fact that even though Biden is, almost certanly going to win the majority of the votes cast on election day thanks to the electoral collage it is going to be incredably close.

            So really we dont have a harm reduction canidate, we dont have a lesser evil canidate (who may I point out means you are still voting for evil), there is no choice to make, assuming you are picking one of the 2 big ones that is a moral choice. There is no tactical choice, as I had said earlier, the only real difrence between them is retoric. Biden sounds nicer, he is not, but he sounds it.

          • SerLava [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            Pied piper mostly worked in 2018 and 2020 but decidedly did noooooot work in 2016

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      • chickentendrils [any, comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        Hey, we can apply longtermism too (and it won't even be that long, maybe a few decades) and say "That's unfortunately pretty likely no matter the timeline or specifically who gets elected when." Maybe if it happens in 2025-6 instead of 2045-6 there'll be less people around to genocide, and we might get a resolution to it quicker.

        The US is certain to become a blatantly authoritarian state down the road, it is completely unsustainable and dependent on militarily destroying other places to launder money to its ruling class, then extracting surplus value from those places in the aftermath. It's currently a heavily obfuscated fascist state, at least to most observers just struggling to get by under its propaganda and the arcane systems it and its collaborators have created.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    11 months ago

    Corrupt politicians are ordered by their major bribers who is in the ADMINISTRATION.

    Citigroup chose Obama’s 2008 cabinet, WikiLeaks document reveals

    Trump was also told by his major bribers who to hire. For instance Renaissance Technologies who paid Trump $16 million, and John Bolton $3 million.

    They also paid Hillary $16 million and remember that whole Pied Piper thingy with the cordinating with the media and the DNC propping Trump up making him "viable" yea

    Let that sink in.

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      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Mine too! I was living in section 8 apartments and had my power cut off a couple times during that debacle. Grand memories.

    • YourMom [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      tbf most liberals are cool with Citigroup picking their politicians and policies

    • invo_rt [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Also, when Dick Cheney was tapped to be Bush Jr's VP, he left Haliburton where he was the CEO and got a $33M severance package. The Bush admin went on to give Haliburton a bunch of no-bid govt contracts which they were investigated for.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    11 months ago

    Oh is THAT the lines libs are going to use? That actually you aren't voting for president, you're voting for the president's cabinet? That's a ridiculous line to take but okay. I guess they haven't tried that one yet so let's see how it goes for them. Badly I would presume

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Does blue Maga realize they're literally indistinguishable from red Maga.

      That was literally the Maga argument for Trump in 2016 "he's not a politician but he knows how to hire the best people so he'll just have a great set of advisors and cabinet members that will do everything"

      • YourMom [he/him]
        hexagon
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        11 months ago

        Biden has been an incredibly competent president and there are hours upon hours and hours of him speaking cogently.

        This is Jon jumping on a narrative that just is based on patent fabrication.

        I have to ask you: if the clips of Biden gaffes were coming from Fox, would we all be taking them at face value? Is it possible to conceive that the same kind of thing is happening with other outlets? It's wholesale fabrication of a narrative. It's really harrowing to watch.

        The man regularly gives the State of the Union for fuck's sake! We watch him speak for literal hours!

        And yes, Jon throws in a little disclaimer at the end to the effect of "I'm not saying that these candidates aren't vibrant and capable." The issue with there is that he JUST spent fifteen minutes doing just that.

        I grew up watching Stewart and his work has helped shape my worldview and help me sniff out BS but this is really disappointing.

        I get that anti-Trump comedy is super stale and he wants to come out of the gates fresh and with punchy material, but it's just so... South Park circa 2002.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]
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          10 months ago

          I grew up watching Stewart and his work has helped shape my worldview and help me sniff out BS but this is really disappointing.

          apparently it didn't because I can say the exact same thing I just kept learning and now im a communist.

        • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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          10 months ago

          I have to ask you: if the clips of Biden gaffes were coming from Fox, would we all be taking them at face value?

          I would take the clips at face value.

    • YourMom [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      If Trump gets elected it will be your fault! Thanks asshole!

    • dRLY [none/use name]
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      11 months ago

      They do have a point though about the administration being a big part of an election. But sadly for this person (and the other folks that will use this line of thought), I think that a very large amount of people that are anti-Biden are not fans of his team either. So they are just furthering the arguments of even the anti-Biden Dems that are becoming more and more embarrassed of the party they have blindly supported for so long. Which does open some gaps for leftists to maybe at least flip to Green votes for President, or at least start following the lead of protest movements like the pro-Palestine/ceasefire ones.

      But we have seen how much rot the "blue no matter who" crowd has just ignored for my entire life from late 80's to now. The masses have been taught to be loud but not know how to do anything. Being fair Republicans aren't much better but have learned how to scare their established leaders here and there.

  • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Trevor noah was so fucking unfunny, dear God how did he manage to become host is beyond me

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      11 months ago

      A few years ago a lib coworker showed me a clip on YouTube.

      Every "joke" felt like it was written by a committee of libs, trying to make the most inoffensive material possible while pandering to DNC libs.

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        I still remember how he interviewed hillary right after didnt-kill-himself was killed and didn't ask her any hard questions about her family's relationship with him and maxwell

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        Because it was written by a committee. You really think a guy who spent all his life in South Africa understands the ins and outs of US politics and culture? He's just there to deliver the jokes and collect a paycheck.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      He just fundamentally did not understand American politics and the culture/society around it, which meant all his jokes fell flat. There may be many similarities between South Africa and the United States, but there are also many key differences. That kind of thing is important to understand when your entire job revolves around making jokes about American society and politics, and he just did not get it.

        • huf [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          he had some funny bits but they were mostly stories about life in south africa apartheid and what it's like to experience south african racism vs US racism. but i dont think he was ever great.

        • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          Pretty funny because he actually understands what he's talking about. A lot of his South African specials have aged really poorly in hindsight though, especially when he went through his edgy phase in the early 2010s. Most infamous clip from that was when he made fun of striking miners. Lots of sexist and antisemitic jokes about Jewish women as well, but the latter was limited to text based social media like Twitter and never made an appearance on his comedy specials, as far as I remember.

  • homhom9000 [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    What's up with liberals knee jerk urge to avoid absorbing contradictory/ conflicting information? Instead of taking the second to see why people are saying xyz (in this case,Biden is old, genocide is bad, demand better from politicians) they double down on being proudly ignorant. They're so eager to be exploited

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Throwback to this lib leaning into it re: Gaza

      Truths are complicated and challenging. We don't have to take sides or teams; although I know it's difficult given then times we live in, where we feel the pressure to take sides given how fast we are bombarded with information. Join me and others in the effort to be comfortable with cognitive dissonance, and remember that regardless of any political leaning or nationality, we are all connected by our common humanity. Let's not antagonize eachother. Good luck in your search for answers.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        10 months ago

        We don't have to take sides or teams

        imagine seeing what's going on in Gaza and being able to say this. they must be totally empty inside

        • just abdicating from humanity. like i can't imagine someone who really believes in the zionist narrative not taking a side? SOMEONE is being genocided here, right? if you don't think its Palestinians than its gotta be israelis right?

          scientific evidence that it is possible for humans to survive without a spine.

          • barrbaric [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            I have a "friend" who's exactly like that. Taking a side might upset people on the other side so better not to. "There are lots of bad things happening in the world, I can't care about all of them". Proceeds to care about none of them.

            • I know it's weird but among all the other better reasons to despise anti-abortion activists, I always felt like, if you genuinely believe that abortion is murder and that hundreds of thousands of innocent fully human babies were being murdered every year, its shocking cowardice that they aren't firebombing clinics every day. I'd like to think that if I was convinced that there was a building in my community that murdered children all day every day that I would do something about it?

              • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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                10 months ago

                Odds are there's some weapons component factory in your area, given how they like to spread those out everywhere. And there's certainly a prison and a police station. And it's pretty rare for any of those to burn down. Idk where I'm going with this, not trying to be edgy or fedpost, just saying people lived normal lives next to the concentration camps, ya know? Cognitive dissonance or willful ignorance or whatever it is, seems to be a pretty strong force, I don't see why the right wouldn't also be able to believe something and completely ignore it at the same time.

                • yeah I hear that. prioritizing personal safety or comfort over action isn't unrelatable lol, there are things I believe are terrible that I don't take direct action against in my community. personally I'm going to wait until I'm old before I start seriously considering assassinating politicians or whatever.

                  but people did firebomb abortion clinics and get away with it at one point. they close at night so it would be relatively easy. also lots of people believe that these unbaptized babies don't just die but go to hell so that's a whole other level lol.

                  still tho I do understand what you are saying. I guess I could have the same opinion about vegans who don't blow up slaughterhouses right. its just something I always felt about abortion activists probably because I already hard then lol

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      It seems more recent, at least to me

      In years past, they were fine with criticizing their leadership, they even kind of enjoyed it; doing so helped make them look more 'educated' and 'impartial' than their conservative counterparts. Something changed with Trump, 'vote blue no matter who' really got taken to heart, and now making even the most milquetoast criticism is seen as an indictment on you and an indicator that you are stupid or a Russian asset or a conservative

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      2 months ago

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  • CrispyFern [fae/faer, any]
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    11 months ago

    Jon's take assumes that this decision comes down to two men

    I thought they were about to tell people to vote third party and wondered why this was in the dunk tank

    sicko-wistful

  • Raebxeh
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    11 months ago

    American electoralism has come down to this. Each state has an independent election to elect formal electors, each of which casts a vote for president, a man who will be controlled and held up as a figure head by his own administration, and our chances at democratic influence lie in somehow signaling through 3 layers of indirection to influence the decisions of the unelected administration officials. Right.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Trevor Noah cultivated an audience? I assumed everyone stopped watching The Daily Show long ago.

    • YourMom [he/him]
      hexagon
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      11 months ago

      Plenty of people watched Trevor uncritically support lib shit, it's exactly what they needed when Biden was opposing the Drumpf

  • D61 [any]
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    10 months ago

    America, you are not picking a president but an ADMINISTRATION..."

    me checking the names of the Trump appointees that are still in place after Biden took office almost four years ago