• Politically_Normal_Work_Account [he/him, she/her]
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    3 days ago

    Charles Koch money

    i love how status quo libs seem to struggle with the idea that anyone on earth just legitimately disagrees with them. its like they don't understand the concept of genuine beliefs -- which raises the question of where the fuck their opinions come from

    • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 days ago

      To be fair... we've been there quite a while.

      Even the most lib-ass libbed up example I can remember from my own political experiences of people legitimately telling voting democrats (in the primary nonetheless- committed, ideological democrats) that voting for Barrack HUSSEIN Obama to be the candidate over Her Majesty HRC was essentially the same as voting for whoever would be the republican candidate (McCain). Because no one would vote for Muslim Black man!

      Now obviously I'm not gonna sit here and type out why Obama sucked shit, but the point is even back in 2008 I remember very clearly talking with people, the most omegalibs you can imagine, who were livid, sucking down cigarettes in anger at the prospect of people voting for Obama over Hillary in the primary and their claimed reasoning being, like I said, basically allowing Bush term 3.

      They've always run these games, it doesn't work anymore, and they're just flailing like crazy at this point. Now if the fucking DNC could just... implode already... that would be nice

      • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        The deals Obama made behind the scenes to get the support he had versus early on in his campaign became readily apparent during his terms unfortunately, but yeah I was just getting into electoral politics at this time and I remember it too

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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    3 days ago

    For example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America – I mean, billionaires in America. And what’s happening? [...] making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the COVID – excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with. Look, if – we finally beat Medicare.

    - Dark Brandon

    • NapoleonBlownApart [none/use name]
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      3 days ago

      I don't know what any of that means, but Biden was front and center for the last fifty years, and he could have helped stem the rise of the thousand trillionaires billionaires.

      • casskaydee [she/her]
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        3 days ago

        He helped the rise of the billionaires in extremely direct material ways

        • TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]
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          3 days ago

          And got basically nothing in return until 2008! For 30+ years was living in a one story house with a 100k net worth passing industrialist gift bills out of faith in the system! Just an epic loser and rube.

        • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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          3 days ago

          Yep.

          1. Biden was a key bipartisan supporter of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005 that made it easier for lenders to squeeze money from distressed families trying to file for bankruptcy.

          2. Biden repealed parts of the Glass-Steagall Act, allowing commercial banks, investment banks, and insurance companies to consolidate (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999), and directly set us up for the 2008 financial crisis that caused huge wealth consolidation in America.

          3. He voted for the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which lowered the top marginal tax rate from 50% to 28%.

          Hell, even at various points in the debate he was incoherently complaining about these things like he didn't directly contribute to this bullshit.

      • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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        3 days ago

        haha. Even the moderator, Tapper, was barely coherent at times: "For example, a basket of groceries that cost $100 then, now costs more than $12" was a literal example in one of his prompts. This whole country has brainrot.

        Just elect ChatGPT at this point.

    • D61 [any]
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      3 days ago

      Please, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho, my people, we yearn for freedom! bateman-desperate

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    Why aren't my ostensibly left-liberal news sources not giving free air time to Drumpft?!

    I swear to God liberal recreation must consist of repeating the words "I learned nothing from 2016" while slamming themselves in the head with a wooden mallet.

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    Gonna have to retire the phrase "Nice Polite Republicans" lest someone thinks I'm a rabid Biden supporter daydreaming about maga infiltration of my beloved state media.

  • carpoftruth [any, any]
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    3 days ago

    There must be a dark Brandon sundowning joke somewhere but I'm struggling to come up with it

      • carpoftruth [any, any]
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        3 days ago

        Let's go brandon is the meme, search that term. It was from some NASCAR event I think

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        Some NASCAR race, where one of the drivers had the first name Brandon. Trump supporters in the stands were chanting "Fuck Joe Biden". The commentators either misheard or were attempting to not cause a scandal and claimed they were chanting "Let's go Brandon" instead. And so "Let's go Brandon" became code for "Fuck Joe Biden". It's been another 2 or 3 years and it's now morphed to Brandon just replacing Biden in regular sentences.

    • JohnBrownsBussy2 [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      If the democrats believed this, and cared about democracy, then they wouldn't keep a dying man as their nominee or they would be using his Supreme Court-affirmed absolute immunity to neutralize this existential threat. Let me know if they have a strategy other than gaslighting and blackmailing the people they claim to represent.

      • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        In any other country they’d be rolling in tanks onto the property of Mar a Lago 4 years ago

    • Outdoor_Catgirl [she/her, they/them]
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      3 days ago

      If you believe this, act accordingly. Buy a gun and kill him. If you aren't doing that, you're either wanting to install fascism or you are a liar. Which is it, liberal?

        • duderium [he/him]
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          3 days ago

          How much success did Lincoln enjoy during his second term after he got shot?

        • Stolen_Stolen_Valor [any]
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          3 days ago

          LBJ had a giant win in 1964 after Kennedy was shot

          Very interesting, much to consider. Out of curiosity how were Kennedys polling numbers during this same period????

          • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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            3 days ago

            These clowns are really funny because they do this shtick, and in recent days they've taken to posting the same image and text about how NSDAP took over Germany so quickly

            Of course, they omit the part where it was a bunch of fucking liberals who gave them the power in spite of leftists saying "maybe don't"

        • Egon [they/them]
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          3 days ago

          Then shoot LBJ if he's going to end democracy too, and don't miss then. Seems like a weak copout, if I thought democracy and civil society was at stake, then I'd do something about it. I don't think that, but you do.
          Incidentally why don't you volunteer for Ukraine?

          • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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            3 days ago

            Zelensky told me I’d be in the trenches but I wanted to do osint and post on twitter. Our differences in tactics made me conclude I would be more useful to the Z man if I stayed home instead.

    • spacecorps_writer [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      The choice is simple.

      Biden wins and you can have genocide.

      Trump wins and you can also have genocide.

      Wow, this is incredibly inspiring. Please direct me to the polls right now!

      edit: Also, the USA has never been a democracy. Project 2025, more like Project 1492, am I right?

      also edit: if I were president, and the SCOTUS just declared that I am an emperor immune to all prosecution, I would simply imprison my political opponents (plus all landlords and business owners and police officers and soldiers, except those vouched for by workers), I would free everyone currently in prison, establish universal health care, education, and housing, forgive all debt, close all military bases, withdraw the US military from around the planet, return all indigenous land and sovereignty to indigenous people, expropriate all millionaires and billionaires and use their stolen money to pay the current value of forty acres and a mule plus interest to all descendants of slaves (and also pay reparations to every country harmed by the USA (so, every country outside the western bloc)), connect the country with a national bullet train network, dismantle all nuclear weapons, reintroduce covid precautions (deporting to europe anyone who even raises an eyebrow in response), nationalize all corporate and social media and use it to relentlessly bombard the populace with Marxist history and amerikkka bad communist propaganda 24/7, and, as my final act, pull down the American flag that's on top of the White House and declare that the USA has been dissolved and no longer exists

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      I'm gonna go vote so fucking hard just like when Germany defeated fascism when they elected Hindenburg. Fuck yeahdean-smile

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      3 days ago

      Many full-time Americans seem to view electoralism through the lens of civil religion, where "The Election" is a sacred ritual and a good unto itself, regardless of what tangible effects it may or may not have. These Americans fear for the day when their precious ritual is taken away, never minding that the vote is already denied either directly or indirectly to countless Americans.

      I myself come from a family of US overseas citizens, and wouldn't you know, in 2022 the voter turnout among US overseas citizens was apparently only some 3.4%, meaning that US citizens living in the fifty stars' share of Occupied Turtle Island and Occupied Hawai'i were 18x more likely to vote than those living abroad. You cannot attribute that enormous gap in voter turnout to simple apathy on the part of overseas citizens, because trust me, US overseas citizens are by all means aware of the impact of American politics on the rest of the world, frankly considerably more aware than most US resident citizens, since we overseas citizens get to directly witness and even uncomfortably embody for ourselves the dynamic between the United States and other countries — and by all means we would want to use the rights that we have as US citizens to effect positive change, wouldn't we? There's about three million US overseas citizens who are eligible to vote in US elections, and that's no small number, is it?

      But that's exactly why voter turnout is so small among US overseas citizens, I say. A huge share of that turnout gap can be attributed to the added challenges that tend to come with voting from abroad, and this is not to mention the ways in which these challenges may intersect with other barriers to voting that may be disproportionately represented among US overseas citizens. And as we say, "POSIWID" — "The purpose of a system is what it does". So perhaps overseas voting is so tedious because it incentivizes US overseas citizens to "come back", where voting is easier; perhaps overseas voting is made so tedious because US overseas citizens will carry more radical "foreign" perspectives and ideas, that are way too "dangerous" to be allowed representation in government; and perhaps the barriers to overseas voting are increased or decreased, rights granted or taken away, based on whatever happens to be the most convenient for whoever is in power to hold on to power; and perhaps all three of these are true at the same time.

      So I think that my family experience, that consciousness about my place in the world as a US overseas citizen born abroad, snapped me out of Usonian election-worship pretty early on: I see that I get to experience taxation without effective representation, because I'm the one who gets to see the Seppo military bases actually built in my backyard and painting targets on my country's back. I see that this awareness that I and surely many other US overseas citizens have, is a considerably bigger threat to power in old Seppoland than the white suburbs of that occupation zone, who get to have their own sexy sexy polling stations such that they can play pretend that Team Red and Team Blue are not simply two wings of the same bourgeois party.

    • huf [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      that someone else will also be a genocider and your brilliant plan's gonna be to vote for him cos it's once again the most important election of our lives. incredible that you keep falling for this.

        • Egon [they/them]
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          3 days ago

          When does your plan of pushing the Dems left by unconditionally voting for them work?

        • duderium [he/him]
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          3 days ago

          How has voting for the democrats pushed them left? They’re a far-right party by international standards.

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          3 days ago

          I'm not expecting to push the Dems left anymore than I expect to push the Republicans left.

          The Democratic establishment is committing genocide you stupid motherfucker. That's like pushing the Nazi party left, the whole idea is asinine.

            • duderium [he/him]
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              3 days ago

              Trump doesn’t get a pass dude. None of us are voting for either nazi in this election.

                • duderium [he/him]
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                  3 days ago

                  Last time I checked, not voting for someone = not supporting them. I also live in a swing state dude, just as a reminder that the USA was designed by slaveowners and has never been a democracy.

                • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  3 days ago

                  I'm guessing you wrote something like "not voting is a vot for Trump" but by that logic not voting is also a vote for Genocide Joe

            • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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              3 days ago

              Biden is burning babies to death you ghoul. I'm not voting for him. None of us are, he's arguably more evil than Trump. The scale of war, and mass death he's currently complicit in dwarfs anything Trump did. It disgusts me, that Gaza would not be a red line for someone. You either don't care about people other than yourself or you view those outside the bubble of the West as less human than westerners, either way fuck you.

                • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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                  3 days ago

                  You're exhorting us to give Biden a pass on killing civilians men, women and children right now.

                  Nobody here is voting Trump, you literally are going to vote for Biden, while he bombs the shit out of schools and refugee camps.

                  You deserve to rot in a prison cell you dirty Nazi rat.

                • Egon [they/them]
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                  3 days ago

                  Why'd you delete this? Stand by your cowardly stance

        • huf [he/him]
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          3 days ago

          the dems exist to prevent any push to the left, that's the entire point of their existence. what are you talking about?

    • egg1918 [she/her]
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      3 days ago

      Then I don't have a choice this year, do I? That's 3 elections in a row in which I haven't had a choice. Doesn't sound very democratic to me soviet-hmm

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      I already had no vote in 2025 because it's not an election year lmao gottem runs past the bleachers getting high fives

        • rogrodre [none/use name]
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          3 days ago

          Biden has been given a golden opportunity to do anything he wants legally, if you believe the republicans will go so far as to suspend all local elections then nothing is off the table to save america. Biden has 5 months to, at the very least, pack/replace the supreme court and kill the machine that republicans have built, it's 100% within his power. He's either complicit or good, he can't be both, and if he's complicit then a vote for Biden is a vote for Trump, and if he's good the election won't matter anymore. I already know how this is going to go, the sundowning genocidal trad-cath with a long history of racism and corruption isn't actually good, but I hope you eventually see it too.

            • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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              3 days ago

              Why are you deleting all your comments, cowardly Nazi scum? Can't handle criticism for your genocide apologism?

                • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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                  3 days ago

                  I'm a married father who has been working a full time job for almost two decades. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them a child.

                  And nobody here is powerful, if we were, then we'd probably put a stop the the genocide you're cheerleading in here.

                  Finally, you obviously don't have better things to do, Nazi, or you wouldn't keep replying to everything. Deleting your comments mid conversation while continuing to argue just proves that you can't stand by your past statements, no even from 30 minutes ago.

                    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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                      3 days ago

                      You're the one who is pro mass murder, this response is itself extremely childish. Hope your partner leaves you and you grow old sadly and alone.

                      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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                        3 days ago

                        You are lucky they invented the interwebs.

                        You'd never have the guts to call someone a Nazi to their face.

                        Well, maybe if you had a mob behind you...

                        • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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                          3 days ago

                          the interwebs

                          Tell me you have reddit brain without saying "i have reddit brain"

                        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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                          You support the mass slaughter of civilians, as long as they're Arabs. You're literally a Nazi.

                          Cry about it.

                          PIGPOOPBALLS

                        • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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                          3 days ago

                          You'd never have the guts to call someone a Nazi to their face.

                          Well, yeah, you don't call someone a nazi in person, you just fucking hit them for being one.

                          nazi-punching cure-for-fascism

                          Even better if you're hitting the nazi and their nazi friends with supersonic lead from a couple hundred yards.

                        • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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                          You'd never have the guts to call someone a Nazi to their face.

                          I literally did that to a boomer zionist last week, get on my level loser or better yet just follow your leader

                        • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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                          You are a Nazi you stupid fuck.

                          You're aggressively arguing for a man who is openly aiding a genocide, and being a demeaning shit to everyone who calls you out for it.

                          You are materially similar to all those Trumpists you fucking hate, Palestinians aren't gonna be like 'oh thank you liberal voters, it's a DEMOCRAT sending them guns'.

                          You can't even own your goddamn shame and you're out here calling others 'cowards'.

                        • Egon [they/them]
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                          3 days ago

                          I fistfight Nazis IRL, but go off king Himmler.

                          Also even if I didn't you'd still be a nazi you stupid idiot. Full of weasely copouts "ohhh my abhorrent morals don't matter because you're not willing to risk your life to call someone a nazi to their face". Eat shit, you're lucky you're online, because if you pulled this weak rhetorical trick in real life then you'd have the shit kicked out of you.

                          Go to your local leftist org and do the same I dare you, go to your local union and do it. I hope you lose your teeth fash-bash

    • Spike [none/use name]
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      3 days ago

      Trump wins and you'll have no vote in 2025.

      This sounds like a good capitalist economic policy actually. No more elections means you don't have to waste government money on it and no more manipulating people into donating money. I mean you're getting genocide anyway, no need to spend money to get there

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      Why is the guy who wants to end elections being allowed to run in an election in the first place?

      • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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        3 days ago

        Again!? We just had most important election of our lives four years ago! Can't we have something else?