• dayna@lemmygrad.ml
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    16 days ago

    I hate to say it but I respect that he corrected himself somewhat. I guess I’m pathologically trying to see the good in people.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        16 days ago

        Show

        Ultimately we're trying to save all of these assholes. No one is born a liberal or a fascist, it took capitalism and imperialism and endless massacres and a massive hegemonic juggernaut of cultural propaganda to turn entire populations in to this. Remove the poisonous system they're drowning again and they're just normal people.

        • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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          16 days ago

          To fight for what is right is to understand that your enemy is not some incorporeal evil, but simply misguided fools commiting evil acts by chance. While we cant let our empathy make us weak; We also cant allow ourselves to be consumed by a hatred for the fools we fight.

    • Real_User [any]
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      16 days ago

      Yeah I'm not gonna knock anyone dunking on this guy cuz lol but it's pretty understandable that he'd have an emotional reaction right after his party lost that poorly and that he wasn't ready to read criticisms yet. obvs it's written in an emotionally immature way but ¯\(ツ)

    • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
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      16 days ago

      I've never seen people change their tune so quickly and so completely as the time around Biden stepping down. One moment genocide Joe was fit as a fiddle, the next he was clearly unhealthy. (not that these chucklefucks would admit he was dead on arrival) Him strong down went from unthinkable and offensive to suggest to heroic yet predestined. Harris was the woman who left the race to avoid being embarrassed in her home state, but became the strongest candidate in history, best and only chance to beat the orange menace.

      • HamManBad [he/him]
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        16 days ago

        I don't want to hear one more goddamn thing about Bolshevik party "groupthink" as an excuse for communism being bad. Clearly this is a feature of any political party involved in what it perceives to be existential struggle. The Republicans do it, the Democrats do it. A political party in panic will always do it

        • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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          16 days ago

          Huh never realized it but this will be a great lesson in siege mentality if I ever have to explain communist states to people in the future.

          "That and fear panic you feel about losing your way of life if Trump takes over? Ya, that's the feel all these AES states feel, and even worse since the US has done it before to other similar states and keeps trying. You can see why they have one party or restrict press freedoms from right-wing or foreign sources or ban politicians who try to start coups now, right? Doesn't seem like such a bad idea now, does it? "

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          16 days ago

          It's always been projection we're the most asininely combative ideology in history. Half the reason Lenin shot everyone was because we couldn't collectively stop arguing long enough to remember to eat and the revolution was starving to death.

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

        He was obviously senile during the primary 4 years ago but all the other conservative candidates and the entire media apparatus circled their wagons around him to deflect all criticism

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          16 days ago

          Yeah, his decline from 2016 to 20 was very obvious. But the Emperor Has No Clothes so here we are.

    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      16 days ago

      Democrats on Democrats: Do Not Criticize The Party

      Democrats on the Inscrutable Chinese: In Bad Country, you cannot criticize The Party

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    16 days ago

    By "my cutiosity" he means a million people dunking on him for being just as willfully ignorant as any Maga

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        16 days ago

        we are in uncharted territory now. we are getting actual, genuine human reactions. unfiltered.

        once the money starts moving, and the bots, and the grifters, this re-calibration will come in earnest.

        can't let the libs start getting ideas in their heads that push against the capitalist status-quo

        • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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          16 days ago

          15 years from now, after Biden and Trump died, liberals will be proud to have Ivanka and Don Jr. on their side against President Tucker Carlson's second run for presidency.

  • DesertComrade [he/him]
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    16 days ago

    when republicans lose elections they blame the system or the woke mind virus or immigrants

    when democrats lose elections they blame their own base

    thats the difference

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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      16 days ago

      Chuds: Everybody I know loves Trump so the election must have been stolen. Damn you Soros/(((globalists)))/the Hollywood elite!

      Dems: Everybody knows they're worse so if you didn't come out to vote for us, fuck you. We'll be running the same strategy next election cycle btw, so hopefully outside conditions (like a pandemic or recession) make it work for us this time, otherwise we'll be blaming you even harder.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    16 days ago

    Literally starting to see famous centrist ghouls be like "damn maybe Bernie had a point..." Like they're shellshocked

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      16 days ago

      Yeah their whole belief system was just utterly shredded. They're reeling without any solid ground to stand on, they have no idea what happened or why.

  • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
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    16 days ago

    In case you're wondering just how much this guy sucks

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/im-atheist-israel-hamas-war-102320046.html

    http://archive.today/fLNsP

    And calls from the progressive left for a cease-fire because there have been more Palestinian casualties than Israeli casualties is a bizarre false equivalency that would argue that the penalty for robbing a bank of $500 should be a $500 fine. Israel’s response to the Hamas attack is designed to prevent future attacks, not create a tit for tat that would promote a never-ending state of danger with a terrorist organization whose goal is to finish what Adolf Hitler started.

    • sewer_rat_420 [he/him, any]
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      16 days ago

      True, the penalty for robbing a bank should be levelling the entire neighborhood the robbers lived in. The deaths of the neighbors is the robbers fault, because he was using them as human shields

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

        The fact that he brings up a hypothetical bank robbery for his god awful analogy just highlights why I fucking hate the human shields narrative

        No one would accept it if that excuse was used by cops who responded to a bank robbery even if the robbers were literally using people as human shields

        Anyone who's willing to shoot through a "human shield" is just a fucking murderer

        Like if I was in a situation where a genuinely bad guy was hiding behind a child I would simply not shoot at the child

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          16 days ago

          No one would accept it if that excuse was used by cops who responded to a bank robbery even if the robbers were literally using people as human shields

          No they would, this is where the concept of "Stockholm Syndrome" comes from. There was a bank robbery in Stockholm. The robbers took hostages. The cops and government decided that killing eveyrone to save capitalism was a good idea. The hostages had to negotiate with the government on the robber's behalf to keep the government from killing everyone, and some of them actually became friends with the robbers.

          Afterwards a psychologist who never spoke to anyone involved decided the only explanation was, pardon my french, "Bitches be crazy" and shat out the idea that the women had fallen in love with their captors because of some incomprehensible mysogynist farting noises.

          Everyone forgot where the concept came from but the idea that stuck and now people believe that if hostages get released thinking their captors had good points it can be safely written off as a mental health problem.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      16 days ago

      Oof. I hope this guy is completely ignornat because otherwise skip the gulag go straight to the barbara-pit cuck pit.

      • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
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        16 days ago

        They're a professional columnist, they have no excuse for being ignorant in subjects they write about.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    16 days ago

    THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANNOT FAIL IT CAN ONLY BE FAILED IA IA GLORY TO THE BALLOT IA IA!

  • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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    16 days ago

    Yes, the voters suck, but that's all of them, not just the Trump ones. Every voter has been ignoring a genocide going on for the last year that their country is arming. That should've been the first sign that this country and the people in aren't good, that the people are selfish, that they are primed for fascism.

    You dont care about the Palestinians? Well the Trump voters don't care about their mothers, daughters, wives, immigrants, minorities, or trans people. It's the exact same strain of selfishness, just evolved, but it comes from that same seed. Sucks, doesn't it?

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      15 days ago

      The thing is that the Democrats didn't care about mothers, daughters, wives, immigrants, minorities, or trans people either... They just pretend to because they have to take the opposing message in their relationship to the other half of their party

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        15 days ago

        I reserve the right to separate the learning from the individual until the individual proves that the learning actually did something

        chairman-daou