• CrimsonSage [any]
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      2 years ago

      There are no self identified republican isolationists. That's all just political posturing because their guy isn't currently in office. The second their special boi is back they will be gung-ho about killing anyone and everyone. Don't let yourself be deluded by the awe shucks affectation, I spent 5 years working with these fucks on job sites all over the place and they are more rabidly blood thirsty than any blue Maga dipshit. And before you ask I am not talking about your bog standard construction guy, I am talking about the foremen and tradesmen who listened to rush reruns in their truck while their guys did all the work. Most of your laborers were pretty non political and usually atleast decent, occasionally a good old school union guy.

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Most of your laborers were pretty non political and usually atleast decent, occasionally a good old school union guy.

        This is something that so many people, including some people on this website, continuously fail to consider. The vast majority of people who are actually reachable are politically apathetic and the slim minority are members of a third party. As soon as someone self-identifies as a member of the two parties, they're an op.

        • CrimsonSage [any]
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          2 years ago

          Not an op, but generally unreachable. And the self identification is important, because tons of people vote for R and D but have very little attachment to either, these people are very reachable; hell i vote for democrats and i hate the democratic party, but atleast they arent calling for my extermination. If someone has invested enough psychic energy, or directly benefits materially from, self conscious identification with one of the parties the only way to really get to them is if they have some kind of crisis or break that leaves them open to propaganda.

        • CrimsonSage [any]
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          2 years ago

          I'll take your word for it, but I have never met a republican who is actually an isolationist. Trump didn't start direct wars, but that's not because his hogs wouldn't like it, but luck and him being lazy, let's also not understate the significant increase in murders via drone he caused even over Obama who was a fucking drone psycho. Basically every hog I have ever met who has said that they "didn't want foreign entanglements" held that view only so long as it was politically convenient. The second an appropriate authority figure gave them permission to go they were completely gung ho about killing. Like I am not claiming the dems are better, as I said they don't mind a good genocide, it's just the cost of doing business for them not the main course. Basically anyone who self identifies with either of the political parties is committed to empire.