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    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      Eh, Harry Potter killed him out of a weird technicality. He didn't even kill him directly, he won a debate so hard Voldemort's wand exploded.

      • bort_simp_son [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        The fine print of the inherent private property laws of magic wands saved Harry from having to take action himself.

        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          It's actually beyond parody

          How could you possibly one up it? Have Voldemort actually be voted out by his Death Eaters or something?

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        • bort_simp_son [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          In their wildest fantasies, liberals brag about how they wouldn't kill Hitler because they're just that good a person, and surely Hitler will accidentally defeat himself.

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        • yeah [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          There was plenty of Voldemort's followers that were killed directly by people on Harry's side though.

  • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The liberals are not okay. They got what they wanted and they are breaking down, crying, pissing, and throwing up at the world as they're theory of reality fails in front of their eyes.

    • MattsAlt [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Really seeing a resurgence in blaming Bernie bros, that well will truly never run dry

      -Fascists roaming the streets shooting everyone not wearing whatever the next frog meme patch is

      -Perforated libs: "fuckin Bernie bros"

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Unless your policy is "we will round up and re-educate or kill the fascists" I do not see how voting will change anything.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You always get those handwringing types who show their cards when you get them to admit that their grandfather got the gulag for being part of the tsarist secret police and you look at them posting ACAB and your head explodes from the dissonance

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    LIBS HOLD ALL THE OFFICES AND POWER NEEDED FOR CHANGE! Change not happening isn't because of conservative obstructionism, but is because of a lack of liberal intent

    They just passed what they described as the most significant gun legislation in the last 30 years, and it did NOTHING that would have prevented this.

    Enhanced background checks for under 21's, making 'straw purchases' have more severe consequences, and slightly more money for some specialized courts. That does nothing to stop or even slow down someone trotting out to buy an AR to shoot up their town's pumpkin festival or whatever the fuck. But the saddest part?

    That putrid bill IS the most significant nationwide gun legislation this country has seen in 30 years.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    She’s right, this did happen in the Republican stronghold of Highland Park, Illinois, while the Republicans control the federal government.

    Oh wait Democrats control literally every level of government that could’ve affected this? Huh.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I love how if you point this out libs will screech about Manchin and Sinema or other proceduralist bullshit like the senate parliamentarian and never take the next, wholly logical step, and admit that the whole system is so broken that it wouldn't matter even if democrats had a supermajority. The last bastion they retreat to is "it's not a democracy its a bla bla republic" no motherfucker it is FAILING. the word you are incapable of using is FAILING.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        And they’re so caught up in procedures and norms that they literally have no functional idea of how political parties even work. It’s a ludicrous idea that two senators in your party just get to act however they want and destroy your whole plan. That’s not how political parties work!!!

        Whip up your fucking votes! If you wanna be nice about it, bribe them! Better plan: Threaten them! Take their committee assignments! Take their campaign funding! Investigate them for their crimes! Just sent the FBI around their houses to piss them off! Walk up to Joe Manchin and show him a live feed from a predator drone with a target locked on his wife! Send them to fucking gitmo and let them go when they agree to follow the fucking party line!

        Remember how the Republican Party acted when that dipshit leaked about their drug fueled orgies? Do that shit to them.

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Hell yeah. Though I fear that the democrats are too committed to the theater and the veil. May he rest in piss but you can still learn from LBJ bullying the hell out of people so this cursed country could drag itself out of the worst excesses of racism short of actual slavery. That "when they go low we go high" bullshit is brain poison.

          Let me rephrase it to be accurate: "when they go low we voluntarily narrow our avenues of reply" not so fucking smug and smart sounding now, right?

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          • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            The US Dems are basically the only political party I can think of that absolutely refuses to whip votes in any way. Even UK Labour fucking keeps their members in line.

      • TheGamingLuddite [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        You'd think there'd be at least some liberals openly advocating for abolishing the constitution considering they'll be branded that way by the right regardless of what they do but they have a pathological belief that the system is good because they're good and the system benefits them and problems can only be caused by bad people corrupting the system from outside. It's the same pathology as the right but with more pathetic branding.

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  • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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    2 years ago

    Oof cw bit of gore there.

    (bloody) first pictured tweet: https://nitter.1d4.us/h4ndcrushed/status/1543999391966674945#m

    Text is: i cant fucking believe i was in the middle of a mass shooting. ive felt safe at this parade for 18 years and today i got hit with a bullet and nothing will change in america this is ridiculous

    Blue check response tweet: https://nitter.1d4.us/AnnBrenoff/status/1544159438096850944#m

    Text is: I am sorry this happened to you and to everyone else there. It’s awful and these shootings just keep coming at us. Please register to vote if you haven’t already. Tell your friends too. Your generation is our last hope.

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago
      cw:blood

      It's a photo of a woman who took a shot across the cheek, and a rather bloodied face.

      • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The more bullets there are flying, the more rare events will happen. There's even the cases from the Crimean and US Civil Wars where 2 bullets hit each other midair and fused.

        The US has enough shootings happening that all kinds of weird injuries and freak occurrences will crop up.

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  • Barabas [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    If only she had voted harder then maybe Illinois would be entirely controlled by democrats and the president would be a democrat. Alas.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      To be fair Illinois isn't entirely controlled by Democrats, outside of (and even parts of) the Chicagoan suburban band are just as chud as anyone from the surrounding states (Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, MIssouri, Kentucky) it's just that Chicagoland has such outsized political power comparatively they don't really matter.

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Just vote away the deterioration of material conditions! Vote away white supremacy!

    :maybe-later-kiddo:

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Y’all think there’s gonna be a mass shooting during the election and they still just go :vote: about it

      That's some real dangerous lathe spinning.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    CW: It's Nitter so the bloody image is not hidden: Tweet

    I can't believe she didn't delete it.

    Oh, wait a minute. I had a look at her bio. Her brain has been fubar'ed by the Team Democrat vs Team Republican POV. No wonder the tweet still there.

    Senior writer/editor for @HuffPost (retired); ex-@LAT writer/editor.

  • Sea_Gull [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Not even twenty-four hours and they're already moving on to the platitudes about voting.